Follow me, if you feel like it I guess
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I was attempting to create the head of a screw with SU and noticed something odd with the follow me tool. I would start by drawing a 2d circle on the ground about 1/8" diameter. Then, I would draw a line up from the center of the circle about 1/8". Using the arc tool, I would draw the shape of the screw's head out from the top of the center line to the outer edge of my circle. Then, draw a line from the bottom of that arc to connect it to the bottom of the center line. I know this is hard to follow but basicly what I have at this point is a circle on the red axis and the shape of half of my screw head on the blue axis. Now, I use the follow me tool to drag the screw head around the circle hopefully ending in what should resemble the top half of a sphere right?? No, I end up with a smaller circle on the red axis or a partial shere with faces missing. When I do the exact same process but scale everything up from inches to feet, I get the result I'm looking for. Why is the follow me tool acting silly on small scale items?
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This is one of SU's limitations...the workaround is to scale up by 100, do the modeling, then scale back down by 100. SU will not make faces smaller than about 1/16".
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yeah, what Marcus says.
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bah. Ok thank you.
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