Hey,
I’m making an attempt to create a spiraled, rectangular tube and hold operating into “Invalid path” errors. I’ve tried each plugin I may discover (Spiral Software, Form Instruments, Helix Alongside Curve and Curve Maker) and creating the spiral manually as described in Aron’s video (SketchUp Ability Builder: Modeling a Spring – YouTube). Most all of those work high-quality with 8 or fewer turns, however I would like 48 turns.
Hooked up is the spiral as generated by Helix Alongside Curve. As you possibly can see, the Observe Me instrument experiences the trail as invalid.
I’ve used the Thom Thom Edge Instruments and it exhibits no gaps.
I’ve tried drawing an eight flip after which cloning it, however I’ve not been in a position to be a part of the cloned part with the unique one as a result of they don’t completely align.
Any assist could be significantly appreciated.
helix.skp (254.2 KB)
1000 segments seems to be the fail level.
Your incapability to make one flip and repeat it’s all the way down to the way in which comply with me works. The profile will all the time rotate to be perpendicular to the primary and final segments of the curve. This stops the ends aligning as you’d need.
Easy repair, rotate your spiral half a phase and reduce on axis so you will have one flip starting and ending on the purple axis( Best to chop and take away a lot of the spiral first). Create the profile centered on the trail on the purple axis. Run comply with me. Choose the consequence and transfer/copy up on the blue axis and they’ll align.
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