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Hopefully wikii from Sketchucation.com will continue work on this promising script.

Here’s another interesting plugin with a lot of potential. 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…). 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. Make sure that you select the face (not its surrounding lines). 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. Click OK and see the results. Sometimes it works, other times it doesnt (for me I cannot get it to work with a straight line as a follow path and everytime I run the plugin, it seems to rotate my follow path down to the ground plane) but when it does work, it produces neat results – don’t count this one out and make sure to give it a try if you find yourself looking to do this kind of modeling.

PLUGIN: Follow and Rotate – Neat, but needs a little work

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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 – aВP 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. 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. I can begin to imagine modeling without it. 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. 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. 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. For that I award Rick a Sketchy!

Congratulations to Whaat – keep up the good work and we look forward to your next plugin!

This was supposed to be awarded back in December 2008 but was severly delayed. Bool Tools by Whaat from Sketchucation – for sale for a reasonable $10.00 on the Smustard website – adds a much, much, MUCH needed functionality to Sketchup. Anybody who has worked with SU for more than 10 minutes can attest to how sorely missed boolean modeling functions are when comparing SU to other 3D modeling software. With a simple, intuitive workflow and the fact that it just plain works and works the way you expect in most situtations – it hands-down blows away any other Sketchy contenders for the final Sketchy of 2008.

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