Hello, I used the Extrude path tool to create a fillet from a 2-point arc tangent but an error occurs. As you can see in the attachment, one face is missing. How can I fix this? thank you
Hi @goyatea… it looks like you may be encountering SketchUp’s troubles creating geometry at smaller scales. Take a quick look at this video and see if the techniques shown here help you with that: SketchUp Skill Builder – Tips for working with small geometry in SketchUp
I recorded this video years ago, but the technique shown is still useful. It’s possible something else is going wrong based on how you’ve set up the geometry, so let us know how it goes! (attach the .SKP file for further help from the community if the problem persists.)
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Thank you, this is not a problem of a missing face or a wrong scale. I am simply using the Extrude tool on a path on a curve to create a fillet.
How large is the fillet? If it’s small, then it is a case of faces missing due to short edges which was the point of Josh’s video.
Which “Extrude path tool” are you using?
The fillet is 7mm. I tried to upscale the object without success. I used the extrude path tool: follow me (image with cylinder + line + red point) Anyway I found another way to make the object and now it is fine. Thanks
That’s pretty small.
By how much. When I need to model small details like this I always scale up bey a factor of 1000. Makes the math easy.
Why not just call it Follow Me. There wouldn’t be any confusion.
Now that you’ve properly identified the tool you used, there’s another part to the issue you have. Follow Me requires that the profile is perpendicular to the first segment in the path and the extrusion it creates will end perpendicular to the last segment in the path. If you set up the profile so it isn’t perpendicular to the first segment in the path, the profile gets projected (not rotated) to perpendicular. This will deform the profile slightly and when it’s svall as in your model, result in gaps due to the tiny face issue. The correct thing would be to set up the path correctly for Follow Me.
Thanks, I will definitely try again with this new solution. The profile is probably not right-angled.