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    • RE: [Plugin] FollowMe and keep (v0.04 update 20090210)

      Jeff, thanks for alerting me to the continued discussion here, regarding the problem I had a few months back! And also for demonstrating the different results between the original follow me and the 1001bit tool. It is nice to see that there is indeed a plugin out there that performs the exact function I was looking for. Very helpful! ๐Ÿ‘

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    • RE: [Plugin] FollowMe and keep (v0.04 update 20090210)

      Thanks, mitcorb and Chris! I will definitely play around with the suggested plugins. I have Fredoscale but haven't begun to experiment with it yet. It'll probably be a few days (holidays coming up and I really should pull away from the computer a bit!)

      I didn't mean to hijack the thread with an off-topic exchange. FollowMe and Keep is an incredible improvement over FollowMe and much appreciated, and it was the closest I had found to what I was trying to do.

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    • RE: [Plugin] FollowMe and keep (v0.04 update 20090210)

      There is indeed a difference between what I'm looking for and what FollowMe and Keep does. As I said, it's hard to explain! So attached here is another file to better illustrate the difference (I hope)...


      followmeproblem2.skp

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    • RE: [Plugin] FollowMe and keep (v0.04 update 20090210)

      Hello! This is my first time posting here and I'm a fairly new "tinkerer" with Sketchup. However, I'm already stuck on the shortcomings of the FollowMe tool, and also I seem to want a result that I can't find a plugin to simulate. It's best explained in the attached model.

      Basically, I want a profile to follow a path much like in the FollowMe and keep plugin, but in a way that preserves the proportions of the profile perpendicular to the path, whether that path is level or on a slope. This is the result you see in real life, with such things as railings, tunnels, street curbs, roller coasters, etc. If they rose a theoretically very steep hill, they don't have squashed cross-sections because of a profile remaining "level" on two axes. A tunnel needs a constant clearance throughout. A roller coaster's metal tubes remain circular in profile perpendicular to the path, not flattened ellipses as they climb a slope. I'm looking for a profile to remain perpendicular to the x,y plane (ie. "level") on only ONE of its local axes, not two. I hope this makes sense. It's hard for me to explain!

      In the attached model, I have a layer called "Method" that hopefully helps to show how I got the desired result manually.


      followmeproblem-1.skp

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