Hello, I’m new to sketchup and lately I’ve been working a little with dynamic components. I want to scale a curved bar in such a way that the offset remains the same and it doesn’t get stretched and I’m struggling to do so. Is it possible to do this and if so what’s the correct way to approach this…

If I’m understanding what you want to do, then I’m afraid what you want isn’t possible using Dynamic Components (DCs). Within Dynamic Components, you can fairly easily prevent single parts from scaling - but only in the directions available through the Scale Tool. And the Scale Tool doesn’t scale i…

Not sure exactly what you mean? and there’s only one picture here, maybe the other holds the missing link? One thought is to use profile builder which basically will save your profile and update it to a re-scaled line. This could also be done with the “follow me tool” too, just copy the end profile…

[curve3] Also meant to add, that once the path is part of the profile group, there is the “edit path of active member” button that allows you to similarly edit the path in the group and the profile will update to that new curve.

and here’s profile builder doing it the other way around. Keeping the curve and altering the profile. [curve4]

This is precisely the function of a plugin I’d hoped existed, but didn’t know enough about to recommend in my prior post in this thread. Thanks!

Its kind of a follow me tool on speed! and has a lot of functionality. It’s well worth the cost. However, I think you can still get version 1 at Smustard for free with limited functions. The video demo shows some of its other capabilities. [Profile Builder 2 SketchUp plugin review] A…

Hi Everyone, Thanks for your in depth and detailed responses! I was not able to add a second picture to the post because new accounts are only allowed to add 1 picture. The bar is part of a bigger dynamic component and the intention was to enlarge it over the x-y plane without stretching it in thes…

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MikeWayzovski June 4, 2018, 7:27pm 4

With a DC, you will get parts wich lines can not be smoothed:

The DC is copied 11x. It is built up with three seperate components: 2 wedges and a block:
(And a lot of trigonometry…):

Bar_DC.skp (365.9 KB)

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