Using flowify

[KaceyG]

When using flowify what does it mean when it says this, I have tried to google and cant find a solution! Thankyou

[DaveR]

Go to the Flowify page at Sketchucation and look at the documentation. It’s explained there.

[KaceyG]

Thankyou, I realised my design did not fit in the space required and has now worked, but did not follow round the whole banister? Are my connection lines wrong, I fol

lowed a tutorial and it worked for them?

[francisquitof]

Can you share the file? It’s hard to know just by screenshots what is the problem. There may be a better solution though, you can use a texture instead of generating more geometry that will not be appreciated.

[mihai.s]

In your other post, I explained what the problems are with your model and what you could do.

Creating a curve railing

It’s probably necessary, considering how the geometry you created looks. Search in forum for ‘tiny edges’ to understand why errors occur when you have very small edges. I recreated the model to have a clean geometry and used a simple railing as an example, so there were no problems with Flowify. However, the railing you intend to create already has a lot of small edges, so besides there being a lot of them and it taking a long time to calculate them, once bent they will generate even smaller …

[KaceyG]

Hiya, I am 3rd year uni student and being stuck on this is getting me behind. I do not have time to re-do the whole thing, you have told me their is problems with it but not what the problems actually are?

[KaceyG]

Bgarden mezzanine.skp (5.0 MB)

[mihai.s]

@KaceyG

you have told me their is problems with it but not what the problems actually are

Just read… ‘tiny edges’ are a problem. Did you search and read about this problem?

I recreated the railing model, with appropriate dimensions for all edges, and Flowify applied it without any problems.

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Besides having a lot of small edges, you didn’t create one of the groups correctly, leaving loose geometries and separate groups. Follow carefully the tutorials on how to use Flowify.

YouTube search ‘Flowify tutorial’

Bending Objects Along Complex Faces with Flowify for SketchUp - SketchUp Extension Tutorials

[KaceyG]

Hiya i redone my model to start fresh and resolve the mezzanine issues
but now I am facing this problem, im sorry I know this stuff seems easy to you but I have tried to google what it means

Bgardenmezzanine.skp (5.4 MB)

[KaceyG]

I have now resolved previous issue, but still not working, you said that its because of the tiny edges is the problem but you managed to make it work? was that only when you scaled that larger? I can not change the design as its important part to my project

[mihai.s]

Read carefully what I wrote to you in previous posts and try to understand.

Watch Justin’s tutorial carefully at least once, he explains very clearly what you need to do, how and why.

• what should groups look like for Flowify (in Justin’s video)
  

  

• and how your groups look like
  

  

Again:

• tiny edges matter;
• loose geometry matters;
• correctly created groups matter.