I’m trying to draw a beaded lid using the follow me tool and I’m getting some results I don’t quite understand. The design of the lid is supposed to be 15 beads around a recess. The attached file shows the working path and profile I’m using along with the results I get using the follow me tool. What…

You’re running into the tiny face issue. Scale the model up by a factor of 100 or 1000 before running Follow Me. Or use the Dave Method: Make a component containing the path and profile, copy the component over a little bit, scale the copy up by 100 or 1000, open it for editing, run Follow Me. Close…

[image] The Dave Method Tutorials The Dave Method is the clever use of components popularized by @DaveR to avoid the tiny face issue. Sketchup fails to form faces when edge segments get down around the 1/1000" mark. However, tiny faces can exist so the workar…

This is so I can design different patterns for a process called ‘basket illusion’ in woodturning. Thanks for the help!! [Screen Shot 2025-12-09 at 12.28.00 PM]

Ah … That’s cool. So real world dimensions probably aren’t that critical? You could do the entire model setting meters as the model units but treating them as if they are inches or millimeters. That would get around the tiny face issue and you wouldn’t have to screw around with scaling.

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