How to do an inclinated element

pier70 · 7 Jul 2012, 08:32

hello to everybody, I'm new and I've a litte question I'm not able to do an inclinated circle for use the follow me command anyone can help me?

UNO.skp

Gaieus · 7 Jul 2012, 08:54

If I understand correctly, you have problems with the circle tool not aligning to edges that are out of axis?

In this case, you can temporarily place the axes (Tools menu) according to your needs. Align it with an edge.

Now you can orbit to more or less view this axis towards (or away from) the camera and when you start a circle, it will automatically align to this axis. Press and hold the Shift key while selecting its origin and starting to pull out the circle.

Once done, you can use the PushPull or Follow me tool to extrude the tube.

OR use this plugin (once you already learnt how you would do it without plugins) to quickly create tubes along your edges/paths: (hm. The Ruby Depot seems to be down again - if not me then someone else will later link to TIG's TubeAlongPath.rb here)

pier70 · 7 Jul 2012, 10:42

thank u Gaieus, it is not perfect because i think the axis wasn't right howether I think this is the way. But now I have another question, how come bace to the base mode axis

thank u

uno.pdf

pier70 · 7 Jul 2012, 10:44

i have done thank u

Gaieus · 7 Jul 2012, 13:45

@pier70 said:

But now I have another question, how come bace to the base mode axis

You mean back to the original axes? Right click on an axis in empty space and "Reset" from the context menu.

ArCAD-UK · 7 Jul 2012, 18:40

@gaieus said:

Now you can orbit to more or less view this axis towards (or away from) the camera and when you start a circle, it will automatically align to this axis. Press and hold the Shift key while selecting its origin and starting to pull out the circle.

Nice one Csaba, One for the duh thread. I didn't know the visual alignment influenced object creation. This also works with rectangles although the results aren't immediately obvious as the circle has the benefit of changing colour to confirm its orientation. Maybe we could get a starting rectangle shape like the circle in an update to help with this.

Gaieus · 7 Jul 2012, 20:24

Rectangles are a special "entity" that do(es) not follow these rules. In fact, they are not a separate entity at all (but SU makes them to be created easier than other stuff - simply...)

Gaieus · 9 Jul 2012, 01:23

The ruby dpot is back so here is the link to the tube along path plugin: http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=453