Tutorial
Tool Overview

Tutorial

Sketchup's Follow Me Tool

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What is it?

The Follow Me tool allows you to make interesting and practical entities quickly.

What's the tutorial?

Follow Me
  1. Open SketchUp.

  2. Create a shape to your liking:


  3. Select the Push/Pull tool (P) and pull up the shape:


  4. Select the Orbit tool (O) and move around your shape:

  5. Drag a shape onto a face. This will be the template for what will be cut out:


  6. Select the Follow Me Tool and click on the face of the template:


  7. On a Windows machine, hold ALT, on a Mac hold Command, and hover over the top of the entity:


  8. Click to accept:


  9. Undo the Follow Me and delete the template. Orbit around the entity and make a new template. Choose the Select tool (spacebar) and select a few lines at the top of the entity. This time the Follow Me will not go around the entire entity:


  10. Select the Follow Me tool and click on the face of the template:


With Circle

  1. Make two clicks. move tool to center and pull up to create an arc. Click to accept changes.


  2. Click last endpoint and drag. A new arc will form—the curve will act as a sine wave. Double click to accept form.





  3. Draw a circle at one end of the curve.


  4. Select the curve with the Select Tool (spacebar).


  5. Select the Follow Me tool and click on the face of the circle


  6. Triple click on the form and select Reverse Faces from the Context Menu


With Rectangle

  1. Create a new line


  2. Draw a rectangle and move to one end of the curve.


  3. Select the curve with the Select Tool (spacebar).


  4. Select the Follow Me tool and click on the face of the rectangle




Now what?

  1. Create a model with Follow Me.