SU 2026.2.242 Follow Me will not open/edit a group to access Follow Me shape face

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SU 2026.2.242 will no longer let you select a Follow Me shape from within a group outside the context of a preselected Follow Me path.

This has worked in the past and has the advantage of the Follow Me shape ending up being in its own group automatically.

I’ve created a simple example in the attached “Follow Me Group Edit Bug.skp” file.

There are labels in the model that hopefully make it clear what Follow Me shape I’m trying to create.

If I select the follow me circle path at the model origin, Activate Follow Me, and then try to right click on the Follow Me group to “Edit Group” to gain access to the Follow Me shape within the group, SU no longer lets me edit the group while Follow Me is active

I’m working around the issue by pre-exploding the Follow Me shape group so it ends up being raw geometry. Follow Me then lets me select the raw geometry face as it’s Follow Me shape, which creates the tube object shown as all raw geometry.

And yes, I know I can just select all the newly generated Follow Me shape geometry and put it into a group, but that used to happen automatically when you selected a face from with in a group to begin with.

As I said above, this used to work and was something I did regularly so that the Follow Me created shape was in it’s own group. It appears that SU 2026.2.242 has a new Follow Me bug. I do not know when the Follow Me bug showed up in 2026, but I tried SU 25.0.659, and it worked as expected. I do not have access to any previous versions of SU 2026 without going through a whole new installation process.

Follow Me Group Edit Bug.skp (189.1 KB)

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It works as expected in version
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Thanks for checking 2026.0. Looks like something got messed up between the initial 2026 release and the current 2026.2.

On a whim, I fired up SU 2026.2 with zero extensions just to see if something there was causing my behavior. Nope, same failure as with all my extensions installed.

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Capture d’écran 2026-07-23 à 08.29.44

there is no 26.3.242
it’s still 26.2.242 :innocent:

other than that, yea, I see the bug / I can reproduce it.

@colin this one is good for a bug report. seems to work fine in the labs though.

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Oops! My bad, it is indeed 2026.2.242.

I’m going to edit my original post follow ups to correct the version number.

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It does look like this was broken with 26.2. It was fixed about a month ago, and so should be ok in the next update we do. Can’t yet say when that will be.

For now you could copy, paste in place, the path inside the group, then delete the path afterwards.