Like this? [image: sTGE_U.png] I drew an arc with 32 segments and a couple of straight lines off that to use as a path for Follow Me. I put a default 24-sided circle at one end of the path and ran Follow Me. Done. Looks pretty smooth to me, anyway.

works great - thanks for the super description!!!!

Whether or not that has an impact on the operation, you should install the most current version of Shape Bender. You should keep all plugins up to date.

Thanks TIG, I tried those out but didn't work. After an hour looking and continually updating my Lumion model I discover it was attached to the ground floor wall component. I exploded it and re created the group now its gone. Pretty weird, haven't had that happen before especially when it wasn't on outliner as well.

Could you post an example model in which that happens?

hi, search in trimple 3d warehouse: "sketchyphysics tank tracks" tutorials and more

Probably just better that way, won't have to worry about saying something stupid.

Hi everyone, Thank you for your responses. Scott gave me some insight on how to construct the equiangular spiral manually, in segments. It's tedious, but works very well to create the desired shape. Thank you, Scott! In the meantime, I found the Spirix plugin, which can generate true LOG10 conical spirals, among many other shapes, very quickly. https://sites.google.com/site/spirixcode/home It has a lot of interesting parameters to generate complex coils, twists, etc., with mathematical precision.

Me too.

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=40025#p354050 http://sketchucation.com/resources/pluginstore?pln=FredoTools

Seems to be the revert function that is causing the bugsplat

The menus are indeed not very customizable. And all what plugins could do about it (better nothing) would be more hacky than manually editing the files. One could either load less plugins from start (only on demand) or adopt to some toolbars. Unused toolbars can be hidden, whereas menus can't. there are also several custom toolbar plugins (Jim's, Rick's and mine). The last resort if you can't find anything is a menu/toolbar search like LaunchUp.

@hellnbak said: Just another old fart's brain fart. Anybody know of a cure for cerebral flatulence? Don't know,..... but keep distance from any 'Explode' tool!

Thank you Phillip, I will give that a try. Cheers, Ryan

@Catnkar12 when in finder use command j or go to View in the title bar and choose Show View Options. If you don't want it to show all the time go to Go in title bar and when mouse hovers over Go is selected hit the option key.

Thanks for the response. Most flat map projections of the earth are unusual projections. Such as mercator or divided near the poles at the latitude lines. But, yes global maps with cities are pretty easy to come by. I've attached a good one for the use. Can you point me in the direction of wrapping it on a sphere? Funny thing is that I would think that this is quite common - such as news bureaus would need a global 3d map with cities. But I guess most of those use google earth now. Sorry for the size of the map! Thanks [image: cTmI_mc-eur-072945_150_ai_2.jpg]

@se7ven said: ... any other regular/irregular shape? Something like Component Stringer?

What are your OpenGL preferences in SketchUp?

Well that bug has been a big pain in my rear end for years when modeling.

@shannakae said: Also, i did not know about the Tab button for options.. is that true for all of Fredo's plugins? Yes another good example is with FredoScale