wow.... this is great! I already have more questions, but I want to make sure that I can ask smart ones. So I'm going to take a couple of days to do my homework and explore your suggestions. The tutorial was great! Tho I don't really understand why you would need to double the shape. I'm off to learn some about skinning and ruby scripts. I am using the unfold tool. So, I have some understanding of how to get the ruby's running at least.

Well, okay I have to ask this one little question... If I wanted to start with one shape on one end of the follow me line and end with a completely different shape... lets say a circle to a square, or a triangle to a an oval... can sketchup do that? (in my case, I plan to take that large shape that I already have down into a simple rectangle) It looks like it could be done manually by literally grabbing the vector points of the shapes and pulling them to position. But, boy that could get tedious.. I guess, I'm wondering out loud if there is a piece of ruby script that can do that? This isn't for a project or anything. I'm just curious as to how it would be done.

I'll post the results of my efforts in a couple days after studying your suggestions.

Thanks for your generousity.

David

Hello everyone, I've been teaching myself sketchup for a couple of months now. Have been snapping up every tutorial and video I can to help get myself on my "sketchyfeet".

I've been trying to create a complex curved shape somewhat similar to a horn perhaps, but this is a machined shape instead of the natural curves of the horn. I want to carve angled egdes out of the corners and havn't been able to figure this out.

Both my first and second attempts were created by cutting arcs into a block. Then using the push-pull tool to get the desired stepped edges I wanted. Then I used the move tool to pull the tail section together into a near point. Now, I want to cut an angle across the sharp corner edge at the large beginning and draw that angle through the shape to the pointed end...as tho I were slicing it off with a knife.

I've drawn a flat shape near the front of the object with the desired profile that I'm looking for.

I've also tried the follow me tool.... but, that doesn't allow me to go from a large, complex shape down to a small, simple rectangle shape.

Or... can it...?

Outersketcher