Help With Slide Using Follow Me Tool

cmartin

I'm trying to make a spiral slide. I used the drawhelix13 tool to create the spiral. And I made the shape for the slide and then used the followme tool to try and create it, but for some reason it keeps stopping in the middle of the spiral. It won't go all the way down the spiral.

I've attached the model.

slide.skp

TIG

Try FAK [FollowMeAndKeep] available through the 'Plugins Index' button above...

cmartin

@tig said:

Try FAK [FollowMeAndKeep] available from through the Plugins Index button above...[attachment=0:159wwqpm]Capture.PNG[/attachment:159wwqpm]

thank you!

dukejazz

Move face to wire

Then used follow me

TIG

FollowMe can 'twist' as it extrudes...
FAK does not 'twist'...
Which is often what is required

Box

Then laugh maniacally as the children fly off to their death on the first curve.

Oops Tig slipped in there to explain what I was referring to before I said it.

jeff hammond

@dukejazz said:

hee! hee! ha! ha!
That the point why the drawhelix13 tool to create a spiral is not a good ideal in general. The top and bottom of his spiral is inverted. What he need is a coil not a spring to use sketchup push-pull tool.

So the tool (FAK [FollowMeAndKeep]) you refer too. works well with helix spring for a slide. good ideal.

huh? the draw helix tool has nothing to do with it..
normal sketchup follow me doesn't have a 'road-like top' option.. (or in other sketchup lingo, it will not auto-fold edges)

in the case of this slide, the vertical faces need to break (triangulate) in order to keep a level top but follow-me won't do that.. it keeps all the sidewall faces coplanar which leads to the twist..

hence the need for a plugin.

Rich O Brien

my spider sense is tingling

jeff hammond

@unknownuser said:

my spider sense is tingling

i can think of about 11 different things you mean by that.. none of them related to one another.

mystery is good though.. matches you're avatar

mitcorb

The tingle may be FollowMe Helix. Look it up in the Candy Sto-- uh I mean the Plugins Index. Also, I believe DrawHelix is up to 1.4. And here comes somebody else.

dukejazz

Hee hee! ha ha!

That the point why the drawhelix14 tool to create a spiral slide with SU follow me tool is not a good ideal in general. The wire spiral is always twisted. What he need is a flat coil slinkey not a twisted wire spring to use for the slide.

So the tool (FAK [FollowMeAndKeep]) you refer too. works well with helix spring for a slide. Good ideal.

dukejazz

I tried out FAK today on Vista SU 8 M2
The tool (FAK [FollowMeAndKeep]) you refer too. works well with helix spring for a slide. Good ideal. I also agree with you all now about the curve problem.