I have a reccurent issue with Sketch’up Make 2016 and I really hope you can help me. First, I’m french, so my english isn’t perfect at all. I’ll try my best !
The goal :
I need to make a pipe (or whatever) following 2 lines making an angle. In the end, I want to have 3 vertical sections :
- 1 in the beginning
- 1 at the angle (precisely)
- 1 at the end.
I tried a lot of process and plugins but I can’t find an efficient way to do it (I have like 500 differents models to create).
The questions :
1 : Is it possible to do a translation in Sketch'up ? Roughly, a Push/Pull with an angle that would keep the faces vertical.
2 : Is there a process or a plugin (free or affordable) allowing to do this in an effective way ? The only solution I found is the intersect with model, which is way too long to work on 500+ models.
Thanks for reading, I hope my english wasn’t too bad !
Follow Me is really doing the right thing during the extrusion process based on what it is designed to do. The correct setup is to have the profile set up perpendicular to the first segment in the path. Since you aren’t doing that, it is projecting your starting circle to be perpendicular with the first segment in the path. At the bend it creates a miter that bisects the angle.
True but it would be easy to cut the ends with a temporary vertical plane.
I don’t see how you could have a vertical mitre in the middle. That’s not how a pipe would be unless the angles from horizontal either side were identical.
