How? Roundover All Edges Of Cube
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Notice in Cotty's screen shot the vertical edge on the profile is centered on the yellow square. Set yours up that way, too. If you do that, there should be no internal edges of faces to delete.
Also notice how he left separation between the purple and yellow faces as I did in the video I linked to. Follow Me is both additive and subtractive. The additive part is what you want in this case. If you draw the profile in contact with the face of the path shape, there'll be a hole in the bottom of the resulting round-cornered box. You can also delete the face inside the path shape prior to running follow Me, too. You really only need the edge for the path, after all.
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Sorry guys, my popup blocker kept me from seeing any images.
I see what I'm doing wrong. You are starting with the flat face/path and creating a profile that actually creates the rounded cube.
I was starting with the flat face/path, then push/pull it up to a form, then applying the profile to that form.
What I'm really trying to create is a rectangular piece 14" x 30" x 3/4" thick, that has a 1/8" roundover on all edges.
So here's what it looked like just after placing the profile in position:
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The process would still be similar to what we've been describing. In fact, to make it easy, start with a 14 x 14 square and draw a 3/4-in.-tall profile with 1/8 in. radius corners. Basicall the same as what Cotty shows but less tall and with smaller radius corners. Make the component and copy it. Scale the copy up and run Follow Me as in the video. Close and delete the big copy.
When you return to the original copy, open it for editing, expose hidden geometry with View>Hidden Geometry. With the Select tool, drag a left to right selection box around one end of the shape. Get the Move tool and move it away from the opposite end making sure you stay on axis. Type 16 and hit enter. (16" + 14" = 30", right?)
There are other ways to do this like creating what is effectively a donut and then skinning over the hole but that requires deleting a bunch of unneeded edge and can be more work.
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So the profile would be 3/4" tall and 7" wide?
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Yes.
Stand by for a PM.
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Maybe one more tip...
I've been drawing up the square, then putting squares in each corner, then drawing the arc for the roundover, editing it to the right radius with entity info, then deleting the unwanted lines. Is there a faster way to round off each corner? -
Newer verions allow to use a double click in the near of a corner to repeat the last rounding...
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I've followed the directions, but I'm still getting screwy results.
So here's some screen caps. The first is the setup. I've got a 14x14 square with 1/8" rounded corners as the base, and a 3/4" x 7" profile with the right end dead center of the square about 2" off the base.
When I go to extrude, I get this message that the extrusion doesn't begin and end on the profile, and then all the corners are open...
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OH! Guidelines, of course! That alone will speed up the process.
But I can't seem to get the darn thing to do a tangent corner round to save my life. Sketchup is balky in my hands... -
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Hey... Be nice. I'm a slow learner...
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Did you see my PM to you?
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Well @#!%$!
I made the profile and square a component. Then I scaled it up 100. Then I extruded. It looked great. Then I saved... and then it looked like this:
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I didn't know I had a PM, because I'm not sure where the flag shows up. But I answered it.
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So I tried the corner rounding trick in Version 2014, and I can get as far as the tangent arc, but don't see how to get it to crop...
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Don't fight it anymore. I'll show you soon.
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@turninman said:
So I tried the corner rounding trick in Version 2014, and I can get as far as the tangent arc, but don't see how to get it to crop...
I don't think 2014 is a newer version
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Ha Ha!
It's a lot newer than V7 and V8! -
Hey Dave,
I'm re-creating what we did the other day, and got so far as selecting the edges of the new panel using hidden geometry and trying to scale it up...
We didn't use scale for that did we? Did we just use the "move" tool to make the panel bigger? -
Yes. We just selected the end of the panel and used the Move tool. You might find it easier to see your selection if you use X-ray face style in addition to showing the soften edges with View>Hidden Geometry. And remember, it's a left to right selection around the end.
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