I just discovered this extremely handy plugin. Thanks so much Chris. Plays very well with Curviloft for drawer pulls and other yet to be discovered objects. I have a couple of questions and please forgive me if these were answered earlier but there are 197 posts on this thread. I am using a MAC and that may be part of the problem with the issues I am seeing.

1. What key controls the rotation? I have tried up, down arrow, option, control but no success.

2. How to access the circle radius change in the VCB ?
   The VCB only displays Face Width x Height. I can enter a value, say 2" and that will set the circle radius. The video shows a VCB display of circle radius which I cant seem to display.

3. Is a 1" radius circle the lower limit ? If I enter a value for a circle radius less then 1", it does not display the circle when I click on the line segment. Currentlly I use a 1" radius circle and change it to less than 1" later with entity info.

value your limited time- use profile builder.

Thanks for the tip. Profile Builder is very powerful for interior work with moldings. Split Tools should work fine for standalone furniture. For the infrequent curved molding, just has extra hidden lines to tend to.

Split Sausage or Split Donut makes quick work of adding the miter lines. In your example it has added a few extras.

Yes, I agree. This looks like a useful plugin as part of making molding components.

I was pointing out for this piece, since the front molding is curved, in addition to the split lines on the mitered corners, there are additional lines added on the top face that meet with the hidden line segments of the curve. As far as I know, that's how Split Sausage works, with no way to suppress these extra lines and only choose to display the splits on the mitered corners. In TIG's first post on this thread, he states

1.1 20120219 At the end all new Edges added are selected to let you use
Entity Info to set them soft/smooth or hidden etc as desired.

However, I'm using the full Split Tools v2.0. In v2.0, the new split line edges are not selected at the end. So an extra step is needed for this curved molding on top and bottom faces to select and hide the extra split lines that are not on the mitered corners.

Dave,

You show exactly my application. Use follow me to extrude the face of molding profile along a path. For furniture, the Path is typically along the front, sides and somtimes the back of a cabinet carcase. Then use split donut or split sausage tool to create those pesky miter lines that were not created on the faces when follow-me was run. (Currently I manually create the miter lines after the follow me is run.) Then create the molding components of the front/back and side pieces for Cutlist.

The post your wrote was from 2013, so I wanted to see if the split tools have replaced the addition of manual miter lines as part of your work flow. It certaninly looks like a time saver.
However, for the curved molding example you showed, I was wondering if hiding the additional split lines may take more time than just adding the miters manually on the corners. I reproduced an example above.

I realize this thread goes back many years, before the arrival of the current TIG Split Tools v2.0 which combined the split-up, splitdonut and splitsausage functions together. My interest is in splitting moldings as DaveR posted back in 2013. After some years of use, I am wondering how the the split tools have performed splitting moldings? Any insights in using this, especially for the curved molding example.

Has any extension been developed with the features Dave mentioned:

@unknownuser said:

[i]So to look the proverbial gift horse in the mouth, is it possible to get all of the surfaces divided at the corners? I'm thinking that one might select the profile that was used for Follow Me and divide all faces where there's a direction change in the bounding edges.[/i]

TIG,
Thank you for your prompt attention providing an update to Component Descriptor. Very much appreciated.

Zaz1

I am doing a bedside cabinet design using TIG's Component Descriptor extension to show mesaurements in my exploded views.
I noticed for several of the components the measurements in the components descriptor field were incorrect. I checked the components and noticed the componet axis was not on a corner but somewhere between corners. After changing the axis to a corner, selecting and processing again, the descriptor measurements were correct. Tedious process.

One stubborn component, even after axis change, did not change to the correct measurements which should be 3/4" x 1 3/4" x 1 3/4". The descriptor shows it as 3/4" x 3/4" x 1 3/4"
I saved the component to a separate .skp and it still behaves the same. See attached skp file. Any help is appreciated.

sp rail2 3_4 ply.skp

Dave,
I had purchased the DVD and didn't realize the ebook had so much more content. Good thing I found this thread with the pdf of the table of contents. Based on viewing it, I purchased the ebook. Looks great and covers a wide variety of furniture. Even a section on using Layout, although that could be the subject of another book. Thanks again Dave for helping me use SketchUp to help with woodworking.