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  • G Offline
    gonashvili
    last edited by 29 Jan 2013, 04:43

    The Follow me refuses to use that simple ogee curve to properly go round the circle.....

    For that curve I used the Cyma Curve Tool in combination with BZTools B-Spline, which I think is the trouble maker here. Before Welding it, it used to be segmented somehow, so....

    Tried different kinds of approaches, but it never worked properly.

    Any ideas how to cure that? Or just stop using all these plugins altogether? 😒

    The .skp is attached...

    Cheers


    latheproblem.jpg


    lathe.skp

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    • G Offline
      gonashvili
      last edited by 29 Jan 2013, 04:57

      Another one where it seems everything's ok, but apparently not. SU wants to fix it, but I kept it unfixed, as it doesn't solve anything anyway.

      No idea what I'm doing wrong here πŸ˜•


      lathe2.skp

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        jeff hammond
        last edited by 29 Jan 2013, 05:15

        with the first two, it's because you're drawing at a very small scale.. sketchup doesn't like dealing with faces under a mm or so.. some of those segments on the curve are .1mm etc..

        scale the model up , in this case maybe 1000x then follow me

        i can't download your third problem .skp right now ? (maybe you're re-upping it or smthng)
        [edit- nevermind.. you took down the whole 3rd example post πŸ˜‰ )]

        dotdotdot

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          gonashvili
          last edited by 29 Jan 2013, 05:30

          @unknownuser said:

          sketchup doesn't like dealing with faces under a mm or so.. some of those segments on the curve are .1mm etc..

          Ah, didn't realised that, I'm actually trying to model my router bits so I can design/see what I can do with them....

          Anyways, cheers for the tip! Think I'll just switch the units to meters, and draw in that scale, while still having the values I'd like.... who cares if there's one or two mm's lol

          And yeah I shot the trouble out of my third issue, it was just an unprecise snug πŸ˜„

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            jeff hammond
            last edited by 29 Jan 2013, 07:03

            @gonashvili said:

            Anyways, cheers for the tip! Think I'll just switch the units to meters, and draw in that scale, while still having the values I'd like.... who cares if there's one or two mm's lol

            well, you can model in meters.. at then end of it, scale it down 1000x and it will be mm.. the faces will hold once you scale it down, they just won't always form when they're that small..

            dotdotdot

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            • D Offline
              Dave R
              last edited by 29 Jan 2013, 12:49

              Why bother with drawing the entire router bit? You only need the profile it'll cut.

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                gonashvili
                last edited by 4 Feb 2013, 09:42

                I know man, its a bit of an overdo, but first of all I wanted to see how it looks, and second of all, its a way of preventing such failures later on when I'll [actually] design, so I know everything works as it should (no dodgy, unprecise geometry etc...).

                Without this I wouldn't know SU doesn't like small scale geometry πŸ˜‰

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