Thanks.

Yes thanks Tom.

Nice Tom.

I look forward to it!

Thanks Rob. Much appreciated.

@bernard hagan said:

Shouldn't this go on the Tutorial Forum?

Good idea Bernard. I will move it and leave a shadow copy in the Pro Users Forum for a few days.

Charlie, that is great. I never knew you could add grips to a welded curve. Good tip.

Howard, thanks for that. I have inquired about pipe along path before but never tried it. Well I finally did and I love it. Makes the steps much easier. Thanks again.

Bernard, do what Howard says

Here is one way of going about it.
See attached.

Download Tutorial

Now I did not account for scale so forgive me if this is huge, the cord that is.

Edit: You could also use the weld ruby to make the curves a single polyline but when you lift the end it makes all the curves in a single plane. I like the effect in the tutorial I just created better. It looks more like a cord.

Here is a tut I just created. I am working on a covert model, really hush hush, but I can post how I made this shape.

Enjoy.

P.S. I will post the model I am working on in the Components someday soon.

SketchUp File

It has already been moved/copied. Thanks Coen. No need to re-do.

@unknownuser said:

@unknownuser said:

I'd like to move this to the Tutorial section or Boo, you could create a new thread there with this valuable information in it...?

Kris/Boo...let me know if you would like me to put a more detailed profile-followme-intersect with model method together. I'd be happy to if you are consumed with other things...let me know...cheers

Bruce, I will not have time to start a tut this morning, I can get to it tonight. If you want to start a thread go ahead, then I can tack on to it. That way we can have 2 methods in the same thread. What do you think?
If it is ok with Bernard, post one of the pictures from this thread of what was requested.

And if you do, please post a link from here to the new tut thread.

Ooof. It seems my model has been intersected
Edit, it seems we are in force tonight!

Like so.

I also noticed that the corners were rounded, you could explode the components into one and smooth the edge.

And last...

Edit component, intersect with model and delet unwanted.

Clean up and add details etc...

I hope this helps.

Second panel.

Push cut profile through and intersect with model.

Delete unwanted and make it a component.

Copy, mirror and rotate.

I will take a stab.
It seems I can only upload 3 images at a time so I will do this in shifts.

Draw your profile.

Push unwanted.

Draw cut profile.

Simple yet elegant. Thanks.

I got this one from the SketchUp forum last night.
chris71 posted it... it is not mine.
wet-watercolor.style

Sweet!

That is really cool. More images please. Or as my daughter used to say... "Pweeeeseee".

Start viewing Thesetutorials. They will answer many of your questions.