You tell the plugin how many degrees of rotation you want the face to rotate as it follows the line and you also tell it what factor to scale to as it follows the line. Make sure that you select the face (not its surrounding lines).
#On screen display plugin sketchup series
FAR does what it says, you select a face or faces and then select a line, arc, or a series of both welded (another highly useful, potential Sketchy winning plugin) into one and then click Follow & Rotate in the Plugins menu which brings up a small dialog. Follow and Rotate (FAR) and is definately a niche plugin and can be a bit quirky/buggy but could be really useful if you’re doing some specialized modeling (cables, ropes, spires, steeples, stalagtites/stalagmites, etc…). Here’s another interesting plugin with a lot of potential.
#On screen display plugin sketchup download
For that I award Rick a Sketchy!Ĭlick here to download the Weld Plugin from the Sketchup Graphics Blog Voila! It goes without saying but I’ll say it anyway despite it being so obvious – Weld is a must, Must, MUST have plugin for everyone using Sketchup.
Blindingly simple and elegant plugin execution – select lines, run plugin, join lines into one curve (polyline) with the option to create faces, you’re done. I use it soooo heavily that I often forget that it’s a plugin (I have it shortcutted (is that a word? 😕 )to “w”) and not part of the Sketchup program proper. I can begin to imagine modeling without it. As far as I am concerned, this was functionality that obviously should have been part of Sketchup and kudos galore to Rick for coming out with it. It’s been a long, LONG time coming (written back in 2004/2005) but Rick Wilson ‘s incredibly useful plugin – Weld is finally getting it’s due – a Sketchy! I think I can so far as to say that nobody and I mean NOBODY who models with Sketchup for more than a few minutes, doesn’t use this plugin all the time.
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