SketchUp Skill Builder: Multiple Profiles, One Follow Me 

I'm kicking myself for the hours I've wasted but smiling about the time I'm going to save. Many thanks.

Genius tip. This is most useful in looped follow-me paths, so you don't have to draw the missing faces afterwards.

Ahhh!!! Another reason why SketchUp is so clever and intuitive. You must've been happy when you figured this trick out!

Ive been making rails for years & never considered this method. Very nice. Thank you!

That was really amazing, time saver without a doubt.

Mind blown. Again. Cheers! Chris.

As a new Pro user for more serious projects (long-time Google Sketchup, the Make user for hobby work), really loving these tips. Great video - thanks.

Thanks these are the kind of imperfect Sketch world scenarios that can frustrate i.e dealings with negative space and Non-Global axis Geometry

I was trying to do this a few months ago, this video solved my problem, thanks! sketchup is so powerful :)

Gosh, it's really amazing! This trick helped so much in making handrails for my staircase! Thank you!

Great work, thanks for putting this together!

Mind boggling! :) great stuff!

Very cool. This solved a problem I was actually working with.

Incredibly helpful. Cheers

That negative shape extrusion trick is the ticket. Can you do a complex roof planes vid? Super cut up, multi pitch type deal. All of your stuff is great. Thorough, fast, and clearly presented. Very well done! Montexan

You are the man! Very nice tip.

Good clear instruction. Thanks

Very nice! Thank you Aron!

Great tip, very useful extension

Amazing...Thanks! It save my day

Woah, great video mate!

Awesome simple approach

Great content 💯💯💯 Keep making such videos .

VERY useful!! Thank you! Just didn't understand the weld part for the lines... But I'll find this out... Thanks!

Good tips. Thank you.

Hey thanks a lot man, really helpful and time saving :)

To keep things simpel from the start, plan what rail you want to have and draw the shapes inside a rectangle on a axe. Then follow the instructions in this great video.

Excellent trick. Thanks.

super efficient. thanks!

Mesmo não sabendo o englesh,fica fácil entender o tutorial!Exelente teacher!!

Quite a useful tip!

thank you for this . you make every thing easier . and you give us great help . thank you . and tell us if we can do any thing

Muy buena idea! Gracias por facilitarnos la vida! Vale la pena comprar SketchUp!!!

Awesome info, thanks...

Very helpful! Thanks. Sub’d!

Nice tips thank you!

Brilliant!!!

Great tip

I liked it..!

Thx guys!

I'd seen this with the pipes, but hadn't thought to do it for railings... You could probably do it for interior moulding, too, I guess.

Excellent, great

Great tip for making pipelines

VeryCool. Thanks

Very useful tip, but as an Autocad and Allplan user I would expect SketchUp to be able to select multiple entities (by holding shift or alt) after selecting the path with "follow me".

BADASS!

Nifty! thanks.

Good one!

Thank you.

such a cool program, great instructions, just wish the pro version wasn't so expensive

Nice! I like to keep every cable in railings as a component, but this is a cool trick

great tip thank you..

Hi there! Thank you very much for these tips and tricks you're sharing with us. There's this problem that im facing right now, this "alt" key that's suppose to let me draw rectangle from the center. What the alt key does here is it select items at the menu bar instead. It won't let me do as you did here in the video.

Cool, thank you

Thank you Sir

it work on my pc thx bro vеry much

Brilliant thankyou

Very practical

Thanks for sharing. There is another way using component properties (there are always at least 3 ways of doing things). Make one of the circles a component. Copy this component vertically for the other rails, including the top rail. Resize/enlarge the top rail EXTERNALLY as desired (not within the component). Now copy and "paste in place" the path into one of the components, and whilst WITHIN the component do your "follow me". Est voila,. Cleanup is simply erasing the path within one of the components.

Awesome program

Good tips. But need to solve for one time push-pull on the extra lenght at the end of each shape.

Awesome

Nice tips

F yeah! great tip!

awesome

Im using supro 2017, where is this soft smooth menu at? Is it a default menu or an extension? Thanks

I've been experimenting with this technique (and enjoying it) and have run across something that you may have had some experience with - Romex cabling as used in residential construction. My "container" looked to me like the covering for the conductors that I was creating using the follow me tool. Have you run across modeling "Romex?" I did have some troubles with the technique when, for some reason, the interior tubes (conductors) would be broken and did not continue although the outside box was continuous. I am guessing this is because of tangency issues in the continuity of the path line. This process does get more difficult when creating a path line that is truly 3 dimensional.

Really helpful, but just a little confused why right side so many edges shown?

Is there some way to follow multiply shapes according to multiply paths - for example 10 shapes and 10 different paths? I didn't find any plugin for that.

Thanks a lot, great Tip Aaron! But why is the weld-extension needed? I just tried it out without the weld-ext. and it worked.

Hi! I do love making things using Sketch up esp. Houses. But my problem now is that my Laptop is quite old and defective. It has lines on the screen. Another thing is that my Laptops battery is also damage and i cant use it if un plug in the electric source. There are a lot of things or tools yet I dont know how to use. I have created a lot of designs but most of them last me for many days to finish. And I know i have a lot of errors though I still wanted to finish them. Hope you can help me on this. Thanks a lot.

The way you say "ewww" 😂

can sketchup do two different angle for profile round corner ?

How would you do a open box stringer stair case

For me it much faster by creating shortcut for follow me tools Then repeating procedure : Select path - shortcut - select profile You don't need to soften smooth, and heal all tiny holes one by one.

I tried a forum and no reply My toolbar disappeared. I don't know how to get it back

Me parece muy bien

You are amazing

How you zoom in and zoom out smoothly, how you change view angle so smoothly.

cool

For cleanup - single click the extraneous face at each end - delete - triple click the rest - delete.

Why is the sound system so complicated , it works for everything else I need it for

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It's too bad the free version only exists as an online browser plugin now. I'll just have to stick with the 2017 version forever until a competitor wins me over. I don't have the money for the pro version, but if a competitor shows up with the same features for half that price I'm buying.

We have called this "Negative Follow Me".

I never really understood inside / outside before !

Muito louco!

Great tip for railings. So using Profile Builder 2, one could create a "blank" stencil profile for these rail (or other) setups and expedite this function perhaps complete with the posts etc. I may try that just for fun.

So many more steps than you need to do IMO. Simply highlight all of the circles, ovals, & shapes that make up the railing and bars you are looking to have follow the path. Once they are selected, click the follow me button in the toolbar. (It will un-highlight your selection, DON'T WORRY! That's ok!) Once you have selected the follow me action from the toolbar, click on the path you want the previously highlighted objects to follow. Done.

Thomas Lai 3:19 drawing rectangle using centre-point? Pressing ALT doesn't seem to do the needful (on PC Win10)

You should tell everyone that those shortcuts tips n tricks only work on sketchup 2018. Am on 2017 and they don't work. .. that sucks!! Great vid. Though Cheers!

I want to note that you navigate very smooth. How? You use magic mouse.

Is drawing your Square by the Centre point instead of a corner a 2018 trick because when I hit the Alt key is not doing it.. any other way on how to do this in sketchup 2017 ??

You mention the "welding" extension. Why could you not just make the follow me line w/ the regular pencil tool?You also stress the importance of having the surface reversed. I'm not familiar w/ this. Do you have a link to a video that explains it more?

selecting multiple faces and one line should be a feature of follow me

@Box!

Issue with the rails as the move away from the follow-me path. Visible at 1:27 near the cursor. So this is a fail in a rather fundamental way. No way I could use this in any serious work. The bottom rail elbow is offset to the left of the vertical pillar as it begins to slope downwards.

great vid! but axis - axes...

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Put it in the blender