Follow me-ing onto already followed on edges?
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Hi from Chiangmai
OK here's what I want to do. Design a bed base with storage in. But I'm getting held up at the early stages.
OK I make a rectangle the size of outer dimensions of the bed base.
I offset 30mm inwards to make a slightly smaller rectangle.
I erase the shaded section in the middlemost rectangle, leaving a bed-sized border 30mm wide.
I pull it 320mm upwards and it's starting to look like the outside of the bed base.
Here's what I want to do next:
I want to round off, with a 5mm radius, all the horizontal top edges inside and out, and also the vertical outer corners.
I have tried making an arc on the top outer corner and dragging it around the bed......which works and goes round three corners.....except for the very last bit when it meets itself and one is left with an unfinished corner (labelled lousy corner 1).
I also tried curve-chamfering an outside corner edge. On one corner I made a 5mm corner arc under the bed and dragged it upwards, but I got a similar problem when I met the already formed top curved edge........something similar is going wrong (lousy corner 2).Any suggestions? Thanx....
Cheeryble
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Thankyou Modelhead.
Are you realising I'm talking about cutting away, curve-chamfering, from an existing shape?
Because it looks like you're adding to the shape....
I could always use your method by making my bed base's top edge lower by 5mm then adding upwards. But how would I chamfer away the vertical corners?Cheeryble
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i'm not sure how exactly you're using the follow me tool but just in case....
you don't have to select a profile and then manually drag it along all of the edges you'd like to follow.. you can select a line or series of lines first and then select the follow me tool and click on the profile.. it will then automatically follow all of the lines you've selected.. you can also select a face instead of individual lines and it will follow all of the lines that outline the face.. that's how i did it in this video...
[flash=640,385:3tvdn3ud]http://www.youtube.com/v/gYYWBmkUm8E&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6[/flash:3tvdn3ud]
the second thing you want to do is possible as well.. i'll get back to you on that a little later.
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for your second question.....
[personally, i'd do this differently but i think it's the easiest/fastest method for me to show you using only the native SU tools]
start by push/pulling the top down the same amount as your radius (in this case, 6 units)
after that, it should be self explanatory.
good luck[flash=640,385:24gzzcr2]http://www.youtube.com/v/nygnDblZJzM&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6[/flash:24gzzcr2]
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Thanx v much Jeff and Modelhead
Good explanations and videos
I've been off the job but will try this tonightCheeryble
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