Follow Me Tool Examples in SketchUp - The SketchUp Essentials #39

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[@jessicawright7534]

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!!!

[@y0utubeu5ername]

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.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks very much - glad you liked it! :)

[@willyg7394]

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!!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

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!

[@michaelkitson4005]

Good useful and clear video. I am looking forward to seeing many more - thanks Mike Kitson

[@edesignexperts7669]

You make everything look simple!

[@nicolelacroix9131]

Awesome! Thank you for sharing!

[@brettdutoit5424]

Such a useful tool. Thanks for teaching me this Justin

[@tanyamcinerney519]

Justin - This is great! You are really talented and a great teacher!

[@elduc8520]

Thanks man ! You have no idea how your clip opens the doors for me and my art, cheers Mx

[@anitabourne8244]

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.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad I could help!

[@quinn2084]

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")

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Lol - well now it will be easier in the future :)! - Thanks for watching!

[@elduc8520]

As you said at the end, i never understood how to even explore this tool, thanks again

[@hendrewassermann5846]

Thanks, your explanation helped me out. This is such a cool Sketchup feature!

[@interiordesignschool]

Great video! I've been using SU for years but still picked up a few new tricks from you! Thanks a lot!

[@shiv366]

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?

[@pd5156]

LOL that butt plug at the end makes me giggle. Good vid tho. Thanks.

[@simonight_art]

xdd

[@debrajchakraborty1803]

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.......

[@RobinHood-hk5dk]

Very helpful. So many possibilities to create complex shapes quickly.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

[@floatingtsunami9878]

this is really helpful saying that i have to do a ton of things with this in school

[@cliffa.6809]

very slick .... thank you for accurate explainations

[@swbernstel]

Nice video. Thanks again.

[@drumminfro]

Wooooooowwwwww. I've been trying to make objects like this manually. This will save me SO much time! Thank you!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

You're very welcome!

[@williamhaid7850]

Excellent Video! Thank you.

[@robertfarrell7041]

Thanks Justin. I need to create a non-circular bow & stern for a submarine hull. This solved that issue for me.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it helped Robert!

[@selimbatuhan4959]

It is just amazing!

[@re_yolo]

Excellent explanation. Congrats!!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks very much! Glad you liked it!

[@brushonfire8800]

this channel is awesome thanks !

[@birdyb4604]

Thank you so much 😊

[@2mdallas]

Great video, thanks Justin.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks!

[@kevinhazel3625]

LOVED THIS VIDEO!!!!

[@maryamshokri8265]

Perfect... Thank you so much

[@SAEdits-x5]

Amazinggg man a big fan of you love you bro keep bringing new stuff in easiest way.
Best Sketchup Teacher

[@Thesketchupessentials]

😎

[@ToAllahIreturn]

great info..love it

[@dlgnelson1]

Excellent tutorial !

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

[@its_pranshuta_traveller]

i just loved this video,it made my work more easily

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it helped!

[@8504465natasha]

really cool! thanks

[@shedo15]

Fantastic explanation.
thanks

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks for watching!

[@bushog9911]

Great job!! Thanks

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks James!

[@iMarek767]

Thanks for explaining it in really simple way. It helped me to understand the way of using this function ;-)

[@elizabethzieman1059]

Omg that paneling solution! That is awesome

[@Thesketchupessentials]

:)

[@richardpalfreyman9045]

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.

[@VinayMehta]

Fantastic explanation.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks Vinay!

[@slowhandete]

Thanks for he video, I've learnt a lot today

[@santoshgujar5237]

Thank you, Sir

[@edwardvincent2743]

I never realised the profile didn't have to be touching the path ! Fantastic insight ... thanks Justin

[@Thesketchupessentials]

It really makes working with follow me a lot easier - thanks for watching!

[@djastrobrando8222]

THANK YOU SO MUCH MY SCHOOL PROJECT IS SAVED!!!!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Awesome! :)

[@ahmedboubekeur3764]

THANK YOU

[@elimfountainsofpeacechrist1279]

Thank you, it works perfect!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it helped!

[@frankmabryix9233]

Awesome video!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad you liked it!

[@catsmeow5566]

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!

[@mousetricks7860]

god dam you kill it bro i love your intro voice

[@killmewhileimahead]

saving my life! thank you

[@Thesketchupessentials]

👍

[@ahmedemad3273]

This helped me alot

[@askaraliarchitects5120]

i like your every video and this one really amazing

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thank you!

[@cloud-9-design]

Mindblowing! 🙂

[@kajaldoshi7331]

You rock....save me always

[@hemnhawrami]

really really , too much thanks to you for your videos, very nice

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks very much for watching!

[@isaurus2]

Hacer puestas de esa manera fue genial. Make doors this was cool

[@myohlaingkhan4936]

THANKS

[@nathan1459]

Sketchup is my hobby, Geis is my guru.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Lol :)

[@dibakarpaul4788]

extreme work bro

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Lol - thanks for watching!

[@Zael2011]

Congratulations for the videos

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thank you! :)

[@arnoldferrera1185]

very helpful tutorial..... thanks

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad you liked it!

[@Sharma-ou7io]

Thanks for your vedio ❤

[@ariunboldnaranbaatar6228]

thanks man

[@nghianguyentrong1604]

Thanks you

[@somesh022]

nice video, this video helped me a lot....

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Awesome - glad it helped!

[@NazirShaikh]

Sir you are fantabulous..... !

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad you liked it!

[@3DCADHomeschool]

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...

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Lol - but you'd have to switch to SelfCAD

[@3DCADHomeschool]

@@Thesketchupessentials it may be worth it. See czcams.com/video/3OClpurzLpk/video.html I think that's quite impressive :-)

[@markoboyko4685]

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.

[@jokerlilo]

THANK YOU...

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks for watching!

[@gaurigautam4172]

thanks for sharing :)

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks for watching!

[@GoodQuestionsLeadToGoodAnswers]

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?

[@caljucotcas]

8:06 - is it.. ?

[@WaqarKhan-tr3pt]

NICE VIDEO JUSTIN .....

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thank you!

[@mayballadares7095]

Thank youu

[@user-zf4sk7td1s]

잘보고 갑니다.혹시 시간되시면은 루비를 사용하지 않고 스케치업 기본틀로양변기를 한번 만드는 법을 올려 주시면은 감사하겠습니다.

[@edameleksagiroglu9662]

thanks justin

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Hi Ugur - Thanks for watching!

[@noordxb99]

nice video

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks!

[@greennature1045]

Nice video :)

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks!

[@dougmcpeek1075]

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.

[@imshahidrza]

You're great ❤️🇮🇳

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Lol - glad you're liking the videos :)

[@imshahidrza]

I am so confused with layers can you help it out

[@user-qn4kf2hm7w]

Классно, спасибо

[@chilipi1000]

Super sir love u

[@ReneJCS]

Great explanation! Very useful, thanks!

[@th.usa4112]

How do you draw the object before extrusion?

[@rajangaikwad4160]

can you use Hexagon in lattice

[@user-dn8pr8pr1e]

useful video. I was getting angry with the tool until you showed me how to use it properly

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Lol - well glad I could help! :)

[@mathstube1802]

@@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.

[@nsriqbl8126]

deserve million likes

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Lol - thanks!

[@karenisaacson7862]

If you use a rectangular shape as the path, the Follow Me tool will miter the corners.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Yep

[@yourhomeinspector3298]

Wasn’t expecting the plug 😂

[@nunomota9838]

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?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Why wouldn't you just select the loop as your path for the follow me tool?

[@russellmulligan6216]

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?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

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!

[@russellmulligan6216]

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

[@9VBGI]

I needed to create a Shuttle booster tank. Took me less than 10 mins. after watching your video

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Sweet - glad it helped!

[@muccizz7428]

Hello Sir,,, the object on 3:30 is not working i dont know what the problem is exactly

[@joepconnor]

Can you array an on object with the follow me tool? i.e. at ever 10' about a line place a object?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

No - you'd have to use an extension, like PathCopy - czcams.com/video/5utTtEFi_NQ/video.html , or Profile Builder - czcams.com/video/q0tyqMaTDOM/video.html

[@coxy9222]

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

[@coxy9222]

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 🙏

[@rockingstarkarthik2508]

Tq

[@MuratUsubaliev]

Another great tutorial. Thank you! Followme creates hidden faces. So, is there a way to 'convert' hidden faces to normal face ?

[@MuratUsubaliev]

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]

If you're extruding a circle, right click and explode it before using follow me - then the lines should come in as un-softened

[@MuratUsubaliev]

@@Thesketchupessentials You are the SU-Guru! Thank you.

[@2000LH]

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.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

The small measurements issue is a SketchUp issue in general, unfortunately - when things start getting small, things just don't work the same way.

[@maleknoorrehan8948]

how can I use su 2017 plugins pack install into su 2014 or 2016 version?
if possible....