Help With Slide Using Follow Me Tool

TIG · 2 Dec 2011, 19:55

Try FAK [FollowMeAndKeep] available through the 'Plugins Index' button above...

cmartin · 2 Dec 2011, 20:30

@tig said:

Try FAK [FollowMeAndKeep] available from through the Plugins Index button above...[attachment=0:159wwqpm]Capture.PNG[/attachment:159wwqpm]

thank you!

dukejazz · 2 Dec 2011, 21:33

Move face to wire

Then used follow me

TIG · 2 Dec 2011, 22:03

FollowMe can 'twist' as it extrudes...
FAK does not 'twist'...
Which is often what is required

Box · 2 Dec 2011, 22:04

Then laugh maniacally as the children fly off to their death on the first curve.

Oops Tig slipped in there to explain what I was referring to before I said it.

jeff hammond · 3 Dec 2011, 00:17

@dukejazz said:

hee! hee! ha! ha!
That the point why the drawhelix13 tool to create a spiral is not a good ideal in general. The top and bottom of his spiral is inverted. What he need is a coil not a spring to use sketchup push-pull tool.

So the tool (FAK [FollowMeAndKeep]) you refer too. works well with helix spring for a slide. good ideal.

huh? the draw helix tool has nothing to do with it..
normal sketchup follow me doesn't have a 'road-like top' option.. (or in other sketchup lingo, it will not auto-fold edges)

in the case of this slide, the vertical faces need to break (triangulate) in order to keep a level top but follow-me won't do that.. it keeps all the sidewall faces coplanar which leads to the twist..

hence the need for a plugin.

Rich O Brien · 3 Dec 2011, 00:18

my spider sense is tingling

jeff hammond · 3 Dec 2011, 00:21

@unknownuser said:

my spider sense is tingling

i can think of about 11 different things you mean by that.. none of them related to one another.

mystery is good though.. matches you're avatar

mitcorb · 3 Dec 2011, 00:28

The tingle may be FollowMe Helix. Look it up in the Candy Sto-- uh I mean the Plugins Index. Also, I believe DrawHelix is up to 1.4. And here comes somebody else.

dukejazz · 4 Dec 2011, 07:04

Hee hee! ha ha!

That the point why the drawhelix14 tool to create a spiral slide with SU follow me tool is not a good ideal in general. The wire spiral is always twisted. What he need is a flat coil slinkey not a twisted wire spring to use for the slide.

So the tool (FAK [FollowMeAndKeep]) you refer too. works well with helix spring for a slide. Good ideal.

dukejazz · 4 Dec 2011, 07:17

I tried out FAK today on Vista SU 8 M2
The tool (FAK [FollowMeAndKeep]) you refer too. works well with helix spring for a slide. Good ideal. I also agree with you all now about the curve problem.