I have just realized, that the Follow Me tool has a new behaviour and now automatically smoothens surfaces without asking you. Please see the following screencap:
The old Follow Me always left the edges of the flat surfaces I point out sharp. It smoothened only the curved ones (in this example the rounded bevel curves). This is a pain in the back, because now if I have to apply a different textures to flat and curved surfaces, I have to manually go in and unsmooth all the lines. When you take into consideration that I’m working on a hollow pipe, the job more than doubles. I used to be able to double click on a flat/curved surface and it would keep the selection within bounds. Now when I double click on the surface it selects the whole extrusion…
I found no way to tell Follow Me NOT to smooth out those lines. What can be done? Why was this randomly and silently changed?
Interesting that exploding and welding the arcs changes the results compared to the original arcs. Never noticed that before. I have Eneroth Auto Weld set up to automatically weld with Follow Me so the difference has never popped up for me.
Thank you all so much for the replies!
Cotty, your workflow is the best in my opinion (at least for this particular issue). How did you even know that exploding and welding has that (side)effect on the Follow Me? It’s amazing! Once again thank you all!
