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Bending tubes

Francois

Francois

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Here's another Sketchup 'issue'.

It took me AGES to figure out a way to make tubing. And now I have it, I still have a problem fitting the bits and pieces together.

From a distance it doesn't look too bad, but there are several flaws in the model that I haven't been able to straighten out yet (pun intended).

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(Gotta work on the 'books' today, but will try and make a quick 'tutorial' on how I now make tubes and work with them.
 
It's a plugin, pipealongpath.rb, I found it in a youtoube video, (ironic):D, and work like a follow me option, or something so, it's very easy to use, I tried to use other plugins, but with not success, very happy with this, I don't remember where download this, but I had to do a search, as I said before it's the best thing I found ultimately.:)
 
Experimented with the Engineering Toolbox. Bit complicated at first (didn't understand how to install it), but now it works. Crazy collection of all sorts of stuff.

Still need to find a proper way to 'connect' tubes and parts of it. I don't seem to be able to make them an exact fit, no matter how much I try.

Maybe the 'grid' needs to be reduced?
 
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