I’m puzzled by this seemingly simple problem. If I create a hollow arc, how to round it’s edges? The purpose is to model a hatch to model airplane. [image] What I’m trying to do is to round the corners. On top of the image is my attempt of drawing an arc and push/pull it away. Problem is that whe…

[image] Antibore: Thanks for your patience, I hope this clarifies. Yeah, that makes all the difference. Now you have two more or less identical (well, quite similar) solutions: [image] -Gully

http://forums.sketchup.com/search?q=followme [image] Radius an edge on a basic shape SketchUp For completeness, here are a couple more methods: [image] -Gully

Thank you for an example, followme seems really useful, but not quite what I was looking for (or I don’t get how I should use it). What I’m trying to do is to cut each of the four corners round, not to round the top edges. Badly drawn picture: [image]

Do a search in the forum for either boolean subtract, or “intersect with model”.

janne.mantyharju: What I’m trying to do is to cut each of the four corners round, not to round the top edges. Badly drawn picture: I’d like to help, but I haven’t the foggiest idea what you’re trying to do. Just because you are cheerfully candid about the picture being drawn badly, that does…

Right. Here’s a couple of pictures what I’m trying to accomplish. I’m trying to model a hatch for rc airplane. Looking at top it’s easy to do, just a rectangle with rounded corners: [image] Here’s when things go difficult (at least for me), looking from front you can see that the hatch top surfac…

Thanks a lot guys, that was extremely helpful. Now I finally got it =)

How to round hollow arc?

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DanRathbun May 7, 2016, 4:52am 2

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How to round hollow arc?

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