Follow vs Me Tool

NickGenerator

I am trying to make three cylinders meet in a beautiful, rounded corner, but things look horrible.

Is there a plugin for stuff like that?

Jean Lemire

Hi Nick, hi folks.

See this SU file for ideas.

3 cylinders meeting at a corner.skp

gilles

This my attempt as you got V8 so got Outershell.

tubes-corner.skp

NickGenerator

Thanks for the explanation. Looks like real work.

Jean Lemire

Hi Gilles.

Good trick.

Thanks.

Hi Nick.

The methods I show are to get you a feeling of what is possible with sketchUp native tools.

Gilles developped a relatively fast method, also using native tools.

Just ideas.

charly2008

@jean lemire said:

Hi Gilles.

Good trick.

Thanks.

Hi Nick.

The methods I show are to get you a feeling of what is possible with sketchUp native tools.

Gilles developped a relatively fast method, also using native tools.

Just ideas.

Hi,

With a little reworking it works also well with the FollowMe tool.

Charly

NickGenerator

@jean lemire said:

The methods I show are to get you a feeling of what is possible with sketchUp native tools.

Gilles developped a relatively fast method, also using native tools.

I totally get the point, but I need all my time for "intersect with model".

Alan Fraser

Another variation of these methods is to produce the rounded corner first by using Rounded Corners in 3D on one corner of a cube. Then just delete everything you don't need and create a circle then a cylinder from any of the quadrants that form the edges of the cornerpiece. Mate 3 copies of this cylinder onto the rounded corner and use the OuterShell command. Explode the resulting group and you're pretty much done.