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    SU 7 - new follow me bug

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    • M Offline
      mroek
      last edited by

      I hope you're right that they'll look at this soon.

      As for the follow-me-tool, I sometimes use this to chamfer edges, and with SU7 (in certain cases) it seems to leave behind geometry that it shouldn't have.
      To see what I mean, look at the attached model. In this model I want to lean the front of the steps inwards a little bit. To do this, I draw a line to create a surface to extrude, then I preselect the path and use the follow-me on the small triangle. As you can see from the image sequence, the result is not what I would expect (and not what I got in SU6). I know that I can just delete the leftovers, but it is still undesired behaviour.

      Path preselected, ready to follow-me:
      followme_1.jpg

      Result is not too good:
      followme_2.jpg

      If the extrusion profile is not connected to the bottom intersection between the horizontal and vertical step, it works as it should:
      followme_3.jpg

      Regards
      -Øyvind


      followme_fault_sample.skp

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      • GaieusG Offline
        Gaieus
        last edited by

        You are rigt - this doesn't happen in SU 6 either.

        I even split the topic so that this is a separate bug report. Thanks. 👍

        Gai...

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        • M Offline
          mroek
          last edited by

          Thanks for splitting the topic. Probably best that way.

          For the sample model it is also possible to workaround the problem by using push/pull on the lower step to push it slightly down and out of the way before using the follow-me tool to chamfer the edge. Afterwards it can be pulled back up to complete the operation. A bit cumbersome, but slightly faster than manually deleting the otherwise leftover geometry.

          Regards
          -Øyvind

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          • GaieusG Offline
            Gaieus
            last edited by

            Well, we are ll using SU so workarounds are our best friends 😄

            Anyway, I have also reported this bug and hope it will be addressed soon as after the main release there are generall some minor patches to fix newly appeared bugs.

            Gai...

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