Follow this - crash

harnstein

could someone who has follow_this1.rb installed please check this file?

if i want the ungrouped face follow the grouped face, it crashes. maybe it's because of me and a messed up system, or its a bug.
i'd like to know

followthis_crashes.skp

harnstein

oh man... life can be so easy. i was blind for years. always took "follow me" literally and pulled the cursor all the way along the line! never knew i could have selected the track first.

thanks a lot

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EscapeArtist

Sorry to jump in but I happened across this thread and have a question.

You don't need to use the follow me cursor along the entire distance to make the face follow the edge you want?

I tried to follow your directions Tig, it seems like you're saying that I could select the face and edge and then select the "follow me" icon in SU and it should follow the edge automatically. It does nothing, so I guess I'm totally misunderstanding what is being said here...

Gaieus

When you use the Follow me tool, there are practically three different ways to do it:

pull the face manually along the path - obviously the most tedious
pre-select the lines (curves, edges, whatever) then select the Follow me tool your pre-selection "seems" to become deselected) and click on the face you want to extrude
if the edges surround a single face, you can just click on that face to pre-define the path (even if you don't double click and the edges themselves don't get selected) and apply the Follow me tool like above.
This video, however bad quality, shows it in work; you can see that I only click into the middle of the circle to establish the path for the sphere.

TIG

No 'follow_this' but you can do it with raw 'followme'...

First copy the face's edges inside the group and paste-in-place them with the face [outside of the group] that's to be used in followme next... Now select those edges [NOT the group], select followme and then select the face to be used by followme... Wait a while - it has a lot of processing to do... NO Bugsplat...

EscapeArtist

@unknownuser said:

oh man... life can be so easy. i was blind for years.

Oh man, make that X 2.

Thank you for the explanation, I can now look back on many wasted hours.