Ahh! Perfect! Many thanks for that! You’ve saved me hours of searching and trying to figure it out on my own!

I appreciate your reply a lot.

Mark

Hi All:

I am modeling a set of steel tube landing gear legs for my Pietenpol Air Camper build. The ends of the landing gear tubes ( 1.375" steel tubing) are squeezed flat on one end, onto which a smaller tube is welded onto this flat edge as a hinge. Like this:

I am trying to figure out the way to take a tube extrusion in Sketchup and pinch it flat on the end at the proper diagonal angle across the tube.

Any advice appreciated!

Mark

Jean Lemire you are a true Gem!

You have solved 2 of my head scratchers yesterday, and today I will be much more productive!! Thanks for the good help!!

Off to make a new wheel!

Mark

It worked! Thanks!!

@jean lemire said:

Hi Mark, hi folks.

See this SU file for ideas.

Thank you! This was the first time I tried a .5" sphere, so I get why it might have been too small.

I will try as you suggest!

Many thanks!

Mark

I have tried creating a sphere several times and am stumped.

Process:

Draw a 1" circle on the x Plane.

Draw a .5" circle on the z plane, intersecting the centers of both circles, and 90 degrees to each other. Picture 1 below.

Double click on the larger circle to select it with the selection tool

Select the Follow Me Tool.

Select the vertical circle face and the vertical circle DISAPPEARS. Picture 2.

I have restarted the program in the event that there is a problem with the program. I have also successfully created a sphere earlier in the day on the same file.

Any thoughts? Help! )

Using the Free version of Sketchup 8.

Mark

Is there a plug in or a way of using the fillet tool to create a fillet around a circle? I have one circle inside another larger circle, where the smaller circle is the hub/bearing of the wheel, and the larger circle is on a lower plane than the inner circle. I want to create a fillet between the 2 circles/layers. how can I do this, as when I select the follow me tool, the warning comes up that it can't be used on curves... see pic below. Thanks!

Mark

@cotty said:

There is a plugin called vcb calc.

Thank You! Just what I was looking for!

I have used a CAD program that allowed math equations in a measurement toolbar to create a quick entity. For example, if I wanted to make a circle with a 27.5mm diameter, I could enter 27.5/2 (27.5 divided by 2) to get the 27.5 mm circle. Sometimes you need to do a calculation like this and I don't know if Sketchup has a way to do this in the program without breaking out a calculator to get the values I need...

Any ideas or plug ins you know of?

Thanks!

Mark

Hey TIG:

Thanks again. You did send me a PM on this. I posted this question about how to cut the tabs off before I PMed you. I posted the question a couple of days before I sent you the PM. I apologize if it appeared that I was badgering ya!

The PM detailed how to do this perfectly. Thanks again!

Mark