How to make it pls

erzane

Great!!! how could I did not think about it
it's been a very log time I didnt use sketchup
thanks
p.s. problem now is that
I cannot resize only the top like my draw because the red point dont want to go in the center

pilou

Don't worry of that! Select all !
It is at the middle of the birthday's cake (?), it's just an perspective effect!

Try it and if the result is not good
You can Make CTRl + Z

If not good result select all right click, Explode till all the cake is explosed
Reselect all the cake and resize it

TIG

If you want to resize just the top disc then select just that face.
The Scale will then become 2d with fewer green-handles.
Use Ctrl to scale about the center point, type in a factor - e.g. 1.75 - or a dimension - e.g. 200mm...

erzane

it don't work lol
it's not a spacecake haha
impossible to put it on the middle, I dont know why
usualy it works fine but I never tryed this type of cake before, perhaps there is something wrong in the building ?
I would like this

but it make this only ( I dont know how to change )

pilou

So Fredoscale

erzane

no I would like to resize the top but from the botoom to
not only the last cake of the top
I would like to make it like a pyramide, from botom to top of all the cake
I used Ctrl but I cannot succeed to make it well
I really dont understand why it doesnt do it

pilou

Very more easy with the Fredo plug (tool of the plug above : tapering with orientation box)
You can make hundred levels and taper them in 2 clicks
Here only 16 levels
Green tubes are the special box , of course it disapears at the end of the process

erzane

I tried to install it but it but installation failed...
I dled the zip file
selected all inside the file and pasted it to the ''plugin'' folder, and replaced all
but it dont work, ''installation is failed''
I read on th emanual that fredo scal work with ver.5-7 , but not 8??
th emessage is this

Erreur de chargement du fichier bootstrap_FredoScale.rb
(eval):1: uninitialized constant FredoScale::T6Erreur de chargement du fichier ZLoader__FredoScale.rb
no such file to load -- LibFredo6.rbErreur de chargement du fichier __loader.rb
uninitialized constant Traductor

I am a little bit tired now I will study it better tomorrw if it's ok for you
anyway thanks for all
I will comeback tomorrow
good night

pilou

You must read carrefully the indications of install
There is the folder of programm itself but there also a library to load!
All are in the same first post of the thread!
And see also the image of the same post, there is the arborescence that you must have!

And carreful also: following the Zip program, unzip can produce a level more of folder!
So in this case copy only that is inside the folder

Dave R

Maybe I'm missing something but what's wrong with Follow Me? Seems to me like that would be the simplest approach.

pilou

Yes, but he wants a pyramide from an existing object!

Dave R

Where did you read that, Pilou? I don't see that anywhere in his original post.

What I drew tapers as it goes up.

erzane

Dave R your draw is correct, do you have another technic ?

Philou are you french ?
p.s. si oui c plus simple de parler français car l'anglais ça va mais ça peine un peu dans ce genre d'explications
anyway I will try again to install fredo again

Dave R

Excellent!

The thing your blue arrow is pointing at is the profile and the circle is the path for Follow Me.

I started out with a rectangle on which to draw the profile.
I deleted the unneeded parts of the rectangle, selected the edge of the circle, got Follow Me and clicked on the profile.

It's sort of the reverse of making a section cut from the shape. Draw the section cut and make a shape.

erzane

WOW! is it so easy !!??
it makes it automaticly ?
pls wait a moment , I will try it

Dave R

It is that easy, indeed!

And all done with the native tools. No plugins to install.

Mike Lucey

Well done Dave ..... 'up there for thinking and down there for dancing!'

erzane

so, I made the basis but I didn't succeed to use the follow me tool
the truth is that I didn't understood your explanations well lol

Dave R

The profile needs to be aligned on the radius of the circular path.

Start with the circular path centered on the origin and the rectangular face on a radius of the circle. I delete the face of the circle before running Follow Me because if you don't, there'll be no face created on the bottom of the extrusion.

Thanks, Mike.

erzane

I succeeded it
but I didn't needed to erase the basis circle
I just choosed the follow me tool and pushed ''Alt''

thanks for your help