This has to be one of the most useful Setchup videos I've watched so far. I'm new to 3d printing and already being somewhat familiar with Sketchup I'm using it instead of trying to learn yet another CAD program to design objects. Many thanks fo this.
So grateful for this tutorial, I'd been battling for hours to extrude a moulding around a rectangle and couldn't work out why one of the corners was not mitred, turns out it was because I started with the profile in the corner! Very well explained and demonstrated.
Thank you for all of the videos you post for sketchup, I've self-taught myself sketchup this last summer with the help of your videos. They're so clear and easy to understand. This skill will definitely help me in my interior design career. THANK YOU!!!
Thanks! I spent two hours trying to get my Sketchup pipe to work before I saw this video. After I watched your video I had it done in 30 seconds!! Much obliged. (My problem was that I didn't "SELECT THE PATH FIRST")
With the SelfCAD Fallow path tool, you can extrude the same as with the SketchUp follow me tool but the same tool can also make copies along any path like an array tool, and its much easier to work with...
Excellent video! Your instruction is perfectly clear. Glad that you actually talk in the video . . . this makes it so much easier to understand. There are so many videos on YT without audio which render most of them worthless. Great job!!
Lol - that's actually why I started making tutorials - I wanted to more clearly illustrate some of the things that I didn't understand to hopefully help other people avoid the problems I was having. Thanks!
This vidio is nice to see how it works WHEN it works. What I miss are the basic requirements for using it (the plane of the shape and the plane of path have to be perpendicular?) and the typical mistakes. For some reason it does not work for me (sometimes it does) and I was looking for some clues to what I did wrong. :(
I'm having a problem where as soon as I select the "follow me" tool it deselects the path I selected and says my path is not valid, so the dragging method actually worked for me. Thank you so much! Getting the square/rectangle to take on that shape that looks like it has molding is very cool! Being able to make those cool shapes will be fun. I need to figure out what shapes I want to create. Thank you so much!
Dear Sir, I just completed a infinite skills SketchUp course. I want to become professional SketchUp modeler with interior and exterior rendering. How long it will take to become SketchUp professional?
Thanks for your tutorials! When I use the follow me tool like you did for for the "cup" (usng the "L" shaped profile) and look up at the object from the bottom there isn't a surface. You're looking into a hollow object. I'm using sketchup for 3d printing and need to have a bottom surface. Is there a way to make it have a surface when you use the follow me tool? Thanks.
I have watched many videos on how to use the follow me tool. When I need to use it I have difficulty every time. An Example: Today I drew a square that I wanted to follow with a simple circle. So I draw the square and draw the circle at the end of one of the corners and use follow me and it doesn't finish the last corner. So I move the circle to the center of the line and it tells me that I can't extrude a curved object. So I move the circle outside the square and select the square and the follow me tool still it says I can't extrude a curved object. I Make one then the other then both groups and always the same result. I have no doubt that this is a great tool but when it takes me a long time to get it work every time I use, it has little value. What might be the problem? All of the videos that I have watched always start with the path and the object already created. Perhaps it would be useful to do a video that starts with draw the path, then draw the object. If the object is outside the path the extruded object will be larger or smaller than the path.
I using the SketchUp web free version. I'm trying to extrude an hollow tube exactly like you did. In my case I get the message that this is not a valid path. My path is luke a u shape, and every arcs and lines seem to be properly connected. When I triple click on one of the line, all lines and arcs that build up the path turn blue, which is a proof that Sketchup sees them as connected, right? Do you have some hints about what I'm doing wrong? An Update a few minutes later: After trying multiples times, the follow-up tool finally did the work. It seems to me that I modified nothing to the whole setup, except that I tried again after I wrote you. Hmmm?
Consider a Follow Me Gotchas video? I have an extensive love/hate connection to the Follow me tool. If your measurements are too small, it won’t work. Scale by 10 and try again works fine. Then there’s the point of reference that gets you. Making a sphere is easy if everything is lined up. It would be a nice addition to have a video on what happens when your second circle isn’t lined up, or centered, or perpendicular... I like your video, but it’s missing the part of what happens when it doesn’t work right.
Foud an answer at your #29 video but still I have to select hidden edges one by one manually and uncheck 'soft' at entiti info panel. Still not easy...
@@Thesketchupessentials Can you uploads how you have drawn those free diagrams ?? can u uploads for me how to make free diagrams ready for follow up tools to use.
I'm trying to do some wall paneling. Bit like wainscoting. But I think I'm clicking or doing something wrong as I can't get the follow me tool to work and follow the path I'm trying to create. Help!!! I have sketchup 2021 version
Trying to do it on an excisting wall iv created in sketchup already. Love to send you over a copy of my project. And perhaps you could help me out. Many thank 🙏
is there a way to extrude a offset lop from quad face tools? like a folow me extrude all the loop? imagine i make a window frame in the middle of the profile i make a loop and then a offset and what i want is to estrude inside the profile that loop to put the glass? mayve selecting one face an then ring it and then extrude inside? but how extrude all face to one side all the way?
hi, I enjoy your tutorials. Great value. I'm trying to use follow me tool to make a half a gas cylinder using a half circle as the path but it doesn't seem possible in sketchup. Every time the half cylinder comes out distorted and just wrong! Can you help with this?
It's a bit hard to say without seeing it - are you using an arc drawn by the arc tool, or did you draw a circle, then cut it in half with a line? Thanks!
Hi Justin, I drew a circle first on the horizontal plane, then cut it in half & from the centre point along the red axis formed a vertical canvas to draw a cross section of the gas cylinder then clicked on the perimeter of the half circle for a path & follow me. it forms a distortion in the middle and doesn't form to the flat plane of the half circle - (slightly angles away) I also tried clicking on the full half circle with a similar result except closed in. I also tried an arc half circle - both closed and open - with the same results. The only success I had was to use follow me on a full circle and then cut the object in half using intersecting plane but that was tedious. I'm left wondering why the follow me tool doesn't seem to function for this example??! Thanks in advance for any help you can give. Cheers
No - you'd have to use an extension, like PathCopy - th-cam.com/video/5utTtEFi_NQ/w-d-xo.html , or Profile Builder - th-cam.com/video/q0tyqMaTDOM/w-d-xo.html
@@Thesketchupessentials you appear to have premade scenes. I would like the students to complete this tutorial but wanted a quicker way than having to recreate all the scenes.
This has to be one of the most useful Setchup videos I've watched so far. I'm new to 3d printing and already being somewhat familiar with Sketchup I'm using it instead of trying to learn yet another CAD program to design objects. Many thanks fo this.
Thanks very much - glad you liked it! :)
So grateful for this tutorial, I'd been battling for hours to extrude a moulding around a rectangle and couldn't work out why one of the corners was not mitred, turns out it was because I started with the profile in the corner! Very well explained and demonstrated.
Glad I could help!
Thank you for all of the videos you post for sketchup, I've self-taught myself sketchup this last summer with the help of your videos. They're so clear and easy to understand. This skill will definitely help me in my interior design career. THANK YOU!!!
Thanks! I spent two hours trying to get my Sketchup pipe to work before I saw this video. After I watched your video I had it done in 30 seconds!! Much obliged. (My problem was that I didn't "SELECT THE PATH FIRST")
Lol - well now it will be easier in the future :)! - Thanks for watching!
With the SelfCAD Fallow path tool, you can extrude the same as with the SketchUp follow me tool but the same tool can also make copies along any path like an array tool, and its much easier to work with...
Lol - but you'd have to switch to SelfCAD
@@Thesketchupessentials it may be worth it. See th-cam.com/video/3OClpurzLpk/w-d-xo.html I think that's quite impressive :-)
Excellent video! Your instruction is perfectly clear. Glad that you actually talk in the video . . . this makes it so much easier to understand. There are so many videos on YT without audio which render most of them worthless. Great job!!
Lol - that's actually why I started making tutorials - I wanted to more clearly illustrate some of the things that I didn't understand to hopefully help other people avoid the problems I was having. Thanks!
This vidio is nice to see how it works WHEN it works. What I miss are the basic requirements for using it (the plane of the shape and the plane of path have to be perpendicular?) and the typical mistakes. For some reason it does not work for me (sometimes it does) and I was looking for some clues to what I did wrong. :(
Justin - This is great! You are really talented and a great teacher!
As you said at the end, i never understood how to even explore this tool, thanks again
I just learned this tool today. it took a while to click in my brain but I got the basics down
LOL that butt plug at the end makes me giggle. Good vid tho. Thanks.
xdd
I never realised the profile didn't have to be touching the path ! Fantastic insight ... thanks Justin
It really makes working with follow me a lot easier - thanks for watching!
Thanks, your explanation helped me out. This is such a cool Sketchup feature!
Very helpful. So many possibilities to create complex shapes quickly.
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
Wooooooowwwwww. I've been trying to make objects like this manually. This will save me SO much time! Thank you!
You're very welcome!
Thanks Justin. I need to create a non-circular bow & stern for a submarine hull. This solved that issue for me.
Glad it helped Robert!
I'm having a problem where as soon as I select the "follow me" tool it deselects the path I selected and says my path is not valid, so the dragging method actually worked for me. Thank you so much! Getting the square/rectangle to take on that shape that looks like it has molding is very cool! Being able to make those cool shapes will be fun. I need to figure out what shapes I want to create. Thank you so much!
Omg that paneling solution! That is awesome
:)
Thanks man ! You have no idea how your clip opens the doors for me and my art, cheers Mx
You make everything look simple!
Good useful and clear video. I am looking forward to seeing many more - thanks Mike Kitson
Sketchup is my hobby, Geis is my guru.
Lol :)
Such a useful tool. Thanks for teaching me this Justin
hay i just want to say that u are a doing a great thing teaching these things to all students communities all around the world.......THANKS.......
Great video! I've been using SU for years but still picked up a few new tricks from you! Thanks a lot!
Dear Sir, I just completed a infinite skills SketchUp course. I want to become professional SketchUp modeler with interior and exterior rendering.
How long it will take to become SketchUp professional?
Thanks for explaining it in really simple way. It helped me to understand the way of using this function ;-)
Can you taper the object that is following a given path? For example, a tree trunk tapers from the ground to it's highest point.
Thanks for he video, I've learnt a lot today
Excellent Video! Thank you.
If you use a rectangular shape as the path, the Follow Me tool will miter the corners.
Yep
Thanks for your tutorials! When I use the follow me tool like you did for for the "cup" (usng the "L" shaped profile) and look up at the object from the bottom there isn't a surface. You're looking into a hollow object. I'm using sketchup for 3d printing and need to have a bottom surface. Is there a way to make it have a surface when you use the follow me tool? Thanks.
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i just loved this video,it made my work more easily
Glad it helped!
very slick .... thank you for accurate explainations
Thank you, it works perfect!
Glad it helped!
You rock....save me always
Thank you, Sir
8:06 - is it.. ?
LOVED THIS VIDEO!!!!
I have watched many videos on how to use the follow me tool. When I need to use it I have difficulty every time. An Example: Today I drew a square that I wanted to follow with a simple circle.
So I draw the square and draw the circle at the end of one of the corners and use follow me and it doesn't finish the last corner. So I move the circle to the center of the line and it tells me that I can't extrude a curved object. So I move the circle outside the square and select the square and the follow me tool still it says I can't extrude a curved object. I Make one then the other then both groups and always the same result. I have no doubt that this is a great tool but when it takes me a long time to get it work every time I use, it has little value. What might be the problem?
All of the videos that I have watched always start with the path and the object already created. Perhaps it would be useful to do a video that starts with draw the path, then draw the object. If the object is outside the path the extruded object will be larger or smaller than the path.
Awesome! Thank you for sharing!
Amazinggg man a big fan of you love you bro keep bringing new stuff in easiest way.
Best Sketchup Teacher
😎
Mindblowing! 🙂
Hello Sir,,, the object on 3:30 is not working i dont know what the problem is exactly
This helped me alot
very helpful tutorial..... thanks
Glad you liked it!
I using the SketchUp web free version. I'm trying to extrude an hollow tube exactly like you did. In my case I get the message that this is not a valid path. My path is luke a u shape, and every arcs and lines seem to be properly connected. When I triple click on one of the line, all lines and arcs that build up the path turn blue, which is a proof that Sketchup sees them as connected, right? Do you have some hints about what I'm doing wrong?
An Update a few minutes later: After trying multiples times, the follow-up tool finally did the work. It seems to me that I modified nothing to the whole setup, except that I tried again after I wrote you. Hmmm?
great info..love it
THANK YOU SO MUCH MY SCHOOL PROJECT IS SAVED!!!!
Awesome! :)
can you use Hexagon in lattice
How do you draw the object before extrusion?
this channel is awesome thanks !
this is really helpful saying that i have to do a ton of things with this in school
Perfect... Thank you so much
really really , too much thanks to you for your videos, very nice
Thanks very much for watching!
Sir you are fantabulous..... !
Glad you liked it!
I found that you can not do this if the object you want to use has been grouped.
Consider a Follow Me Gotchas video? I have an extensive love/hate connection to the Follow me tool. If your measurements are too small, it won’t work. Scale by 10 and try again works fine. Then there’s the point of reference that gets you. Making a sphere is easy if everything is lined up. It would be a nice addition to have a video on what happens when your second circle isn’t lined up, or centered, or perpendicular... I like your video, but it’s missing the part of what happens when it doesn’t work right.
The small measurements issue is a SketchUp issue in general, unfortunately - when things start getting small, things just don't work the same way.
Another great tutorial. Thank you! Followme creates hidden faces. So, is there a way to 'convert' hidden faces to normal face ?
Foud an answer at your #29 video but still I have to select hidden edges one by one manually and uncheck 'soft' at entiti info panel. Still not easy...
If you're extruding a circle, right click and explode it before using follow me - then the lines should come in as un-softened
@@Thesketchupessentials You are the SU-Guru! Thank you.
useful video. I was getting angry with the tool until you showed me how to use it properly
Lol - well glad I could help! :)
@@Thesketchupessentials Can you uploads how you have drawn those free diagrams ?? can u uploads for me how to make free diagrams ready for follow up tools to use.
Thanks for your vedio ❤
deserve million likes
Lol - thanks!
I'm trying to do some wall paneling. Bit like wainscoting. But I think I'm clicking or doing something wrong as I can't get the follow me tool to work and follow the path I'm trying to create. Help!!! I have sketchup 2021 version
Trying to do it on an excisting wall iv created in sketchup already. Love to send you over a copy of my project. And perhaps you could help me out. Many thank 🙏
Excellent explanation. Congrats!!
Thanks very much! Glad you liked it!
is there a way to extrude a offset lop from quad face tools? like a folow me extrude all the loop? imagine i make a window frame in the middle of the profile i make a loop and then a offset and what i want is to estrude inside the profile that loop to put the glass? mayve selecting one face an then ring it and then extrude inside? but how extrude all face to one side all the way?
Why wouldn't you just select the loop as your path for the follow me tool?
god dam you kill it bro i love your intro voice
I needed to create a Shuttle booster tank. Took me less than 10 mins. after watching your video
Sweet - glad it helped!
Fantastic explanation.
Thanks Vinay!
Great video, thanks Justin.
Thanks!
Appreciate the video Ernest. Know what I mean Vern?
Sigh
Excellent tutorial !
Thank you! Glad you liked it!
thanks man
hi, I enjoy your tutorials. Great value.
I'm trying to use follow me tool to make a half a gas cylinder using a half circle as the path but it doesn't seem possible in sketchup. Every time the half cylinder comes out distorted and just wrong! Can you help with this?
It's a bit hard to say without seeing it - are you using an arc drawn by the arc tool, or did you draw a circle, then cut it in half with a line? Thanks!
Hi Justin, I drew a circle first on the horizontal plane, then cut it in half & from the centre point along the red axis formed a vertical canvas to draw a cross section of the gas cylinder then clicked on the perimeter of the half circle for a path & follow me. it forms a distortion in the middle and doesn't form to the flat plane of the half circle - (slightly angles away) I also tried clicking on the full half circle with a similar result except closed in. I also tried an arc half circle - both closed and open - with the same results. The only success I had was to use follow me on a full circle and then cut the object in half using intersecting plane but that was tedious. I'm left wondering why the follow me tool doesn't seem to function for this example??!
Thanks in advance for any help you can give. Cheers
extreme work bro
Lol - thanks for watching!
Amazing !! Follow the líder !! Thanks mi brother !! From mexicali México !!
Great explanation! Very useful, thanks!
Thank you so much 😊
Nice video. Thanks again.
really cool! thanks
Классно, спасибо
Can you array an on object with the follow me tool? i.e. at ever 10' about a line place a object?
No - you'd have to use an extension, like PathCopy - th-cam.com/video/5utTtEFi_NQ/w-d-xo.html , or Profile Builder - th-cam.com/video/q0tyqMaTDOM/w-d-xo.html
Awesome video!
Glad you liked it!
thanks i like the way you explain
THANK YOU
Great job!! Thanks
Thanks James!
Thanks you
Fantastic explanation.
thanks
Thanks for watching!
Thank youu
Hacer puestas de esa manera fue genial. Make doors this was cool
At 3:58 of your video, once this object is created, how to have 2 objects of the same nicely merged together as one pace ?
If your path is continuous and you select the whole path, SketchUp should automatically merge them together...
I tried to merge 2 component of the same object using Bounding Edges under Select option, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, you know why ?
can you Uploads how you have drawn those free diagram?? how to draw that free diagram??
I don't understand this question
@@Thesketchupessentials i guess he's talking about that fountain outline before using the follow me tool
It is just amazing!
How do you make the curved lines?
Most of them are drawn with the arc tool, which you can activate using the "A" keyboard shortcut. Hopefully this helped!
Thanks!
I can not believe i did not know that 🙄 ....thank u soo much ❤️
Congratulations for the videos
Thank you! :)
Super sir love u
nice video, this video helped me a lot....
Awesome - glad it helped!
Do you have the pre-made template for this?
For...what?
@@Thesketchupessentials you appear to have premade scenes. I would like the students to complete this tutorial but wanted a quicker way than having to recreate all the scenes.
THANKS
Wasn’t expecting the plug 😂