Like the title suggests, I have lost sleep trying to model a CO2 shell dragster on sketchup for schools. I have managed to make the entire design but i needed help in a small area. Rounding the outer edges has been a pain for me to do. I have tried almost every way to do it, however eveytime i do it, the entire model messes up. So please if anyone of you could help me. Any help is very much appreciated.
Here is the link:
DD 15.stl (119.0 KB)
DD 15.skp (225.6 KB)
hello,
your model is very very small and sketchup doesn’t handle tiny faces well. scale up your model 100x or even 1000x (or use the dave method by making a component out of it, copy, scale up and modify the scaled up component)
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Thank you for your reply, but im also not sure how to actually round over the edges. I know that there is the “follow me” tool but every time i use and try to clean up my model, parts that dont need to be erased are also erased.
It is likely that the erasure is due to SketchUp’s intolerance of very short edges and closely spaced points. This is why @paul.millet suggested scaling up the model.
Thank you for the help, but how would i round over the edges?
Once you scale it up, you can use follow me or one of Fredo’s extensions. If you don’t scale it to a much larger size first, you will never get round corners regardless of method chosen.
So, 1) Scale model up (make larger by 1000% using the scale tool) using Dave’s method. So you now have two instances of your component, one at real world size one 1000x larger.
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Use follow me or other tool to round edges on the enlarged instance of the component.
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print the component instance that is at the correct scale.
Tom
Thank you so much!
1000% os 10 times larger 1000 times larger is 100 000%.
(percent [%] is hundredths]
Yes. Late night. Meant to type 1000x
You did write 1000Ă— did you mean ten times larger or did you mean Ă— and not % the first time? 
1000x. As in 1 mm becomes a meter. Or 23.45 cubits x 1000 = 1 x 10^-8 parsecs (approximately).
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