Hm! Seems like the vertices should always be coincident. Or, am I thinking of the wrong vertices?

This works great. Thank you.

One question. My torus has no part so small as .001", so the explanation for this situation is not completely consistent. Is there more detail for the why?

Thanks again,

Dave

Trying to make an O-ring of 9.5mm radius, and 1mm thickness. I've made the necessary circles. The small one centered on the path of the large one, and constructed correctly to be perpendicular. I select the large circle, then pick the Follow tool, and click on the face or the edge of the small circle. Then it just disappears; there is no following the path of the large circle.

There is a message something like 'The path you have chosen does not begin or end on the extrusion cross section. Unexpected results may occur.'

The file with the issue is attached.

Appreciate any help to get this going.

Dave

20x18x1mm o-ring attempt

@dave r said:

Dave, welcome to Sketchucation.

The majority of the discussions you'll find here about using SketchUp will apply to 2017 Make. There are surely some that will apply to features that have been released for the pro users but you can probably ignore them. There's not as much, yet, on using the wed-based versions because those versions are newer. The web-based versions are very usable (on my computers the SketchUp Free and SketchUp Shop run very well even with large files) and have some benefits over the desktop client versions. If you need to be able to access SketchUp without an internet connection or you need to use extensions, though, the desktop version is the way to go.

Your assumption of a bias against 2017 Make is just an assumption and it couldn't be more wrong.

Thanks for the reply.

The attempt that I made on the web that failed was with an stl file that was intended to print. I had imported it into sketchup. Being from the stl may have had something to do with the difficulty; don't know. All I can say for sure is that it took so long between view changes with orbit and zoom that it locked up.

Thanks for correcting my assumption. This made me look elsewhere for some of my issues, and having corrected one of them, I'm having better luck now.

BTW, what is the relationship between sketchucation.com and forums.sketchup.com? Without my assumption of the heavy hand of corporate profit, why the seeming redundancy?

So lastly, where should I go from here?

Thanks again,

Dave

Hello Everyone:

I've been using sketchup off and on, mostly off, for several years. Now I discover that I have to use the cloud version, or the 2017 make version if I want to use it locally.

My current project is to use sketchup to document/plan a telescope that I'm making to house optics bought from Surplus Shed. (Hobby.) I got started by importing some 3D print files. Then I tried to use the cloud version to view them, but the delays made that impossible, so I switched to the 2017 version. Now, I've tried the free cloud version again, no longer using the 3D print files, and find it harder to use than the 2017 version. So much for that.

My first question is that it seems this thread hasn't got much traffic lately, and I'm wondering why? So, will asking anything here do me any good?

My real question has to do with getting help for the 2017 version. It seems that all the general online help is either obsolete, or strictly for the cloud product. Finding help for the 2017 version seems hard. At least that's my impression. I'm avoiding the official sketchup user forum for now under the assumption that there will be a bias against the 2017 free version because there's no money in it for Trimble.

So, here I am. Hoping to get some clarification, little my little, on how to run this really cool tool.

Dave