@dave r said: Do you have length snapping enabled in Model Info/Units? If so, that would result in the jumpy movements. Turn it off and things should smooth out. You'll probably want to modify your starting template to get rid of length snapping, too. [highlight=#ff40ff:1pk159iu]I don' have that problem anymore, it disappeared somehow [/highlight:1pk159iu] [highlight=#ff80ff:1pk159iu]Thanx[/highlight:1pk159iu]

Thats Great, thanks Jeff! Just what i was looking for.

In my example I found that the path itself is the problem Probably because it becomes part of the volume along the edge Once I removed the path the volume was calculated as a whole. I retried when moving the faces slightly away from the path (so not connected) Somehow the volume was not calculated, but when I now deleted the intermediate faces as TIG suggested I got the complete volume, Strange... Anyway its working now, thanks for the suggestions!

Arf... Of course.. Thank you ely862me

Good idea. I spent 30 mins trying to figure out Marcus' words of wisdom and failed so I've started drawing it again. After 2 hours of intensive drawing I've run into the intersect problems again though, SolidSolver has been working on it for the last 10 minutes, I predict failure. I'll go away and try to see how this 'intersect with selection' works.

yeah, I just checked some videos and I'll do it from scratch. and this forum is great in case I need some help. thanks for your support guys appreciated

Definitely not a crises situation Dave. I was just curious and of course good to know for the future. Checked your bio as I was sure you were in Minnesota and it is very early there to be at work... then saw the Anaesthesia bit. (Spelling - Brit speak) Oh yea... worked myself in a non-clinical area (Well if you call PI/QM and the guardians of JCAHO, now TJC non clinical) of a local health group for fifteen years, so well aware of the medical hours. I am always thrilled for your help as I know you will come up with a solution to my stupidity. And on another note... I don't know how much time you have to view television, but there is a new programme on HGTV called Ellen's Design Challenge - Furniture Designer Competition and being a lover of all things design related and not too bad with a chop saw myself, I am hooked. I know you do woodworking, so you might like it, all the usual TV drama aside. And how I babble on... TTFN

CurvyLoft / Loft along Path! Profils can have any size, orientation, forms... [image: WLMQ_Loft_on_path.jpg]

Thanks John for your reply. my main problem was the inability to get the plugin into s/u plugin extension window, (there was no install extension button.) I finally found a s/u 8 m2 update and now works fine. Jim

I might also suggest that if the geometry you are working with doesn't work well with the orientation of the axes, just change the axes so they do. Context click on the axes, select "place" or "change axes" then put it where you want them. You would usually want to use the geometry you are working with as the inference point for placing the new axes.

@dave r said: What do you mean by "mods"? Modifications to your SketchUp model? After you save the SKP file the LO viewports get updated automatically. Changes carried through. Brilliant!

Thank you. Can you please suggest some good add-one? Time is value, do not want to test several ones. Better to hear professional suggestion.

thanks Dave. these technique is smart one. I like

@ cotty; @ TIG: Both of you have been very kind. Thank you very much!

What a simple solution! Thanks very much for your lightning fast response, sometimes you can stare yourself blind. Ehh...I have some more problems, but because I could not even solve the simplest puzzle I left those. So...some new challenges ahead, but no more mightnight oil burning for me. With help through this forum I should be able to prevent that Thanks again!!

Later on you'll eventually want to find a shortcut for View > Component Edit... > Hide Rest of Model... It's very handy to be inside a group/component and well... hide the rest of model sometimes. (wich is what you are setting at model info)

It wouldn't necessarily save you as much time as the potential problems it could cause. It is always best to work in Monochrome so you can see that your faces are correctly orientated.

thanks so much for the help!

SketchUp's built-in tolerance is 1/1000" If your initial circle's segment length results in FollowMe geometry edges of shorter than 1/1000", then they won't get made - because SketchUp assumes the two ends are coincident and so skips on. Then any dependent facets also get omitted etc... This occurs in any operation making new geometry - like the native FollowMe, Intersect etc and any similar Plugins... As was said before... Scale up temporarily to avoid these issues.

Yes, Didiers's site is back.