However, as your images show, this better method can be confusing to users. I use this method, and it is much easier to use than the 'find an edge as you go' method. Posted by Aidan Chopra, SketchUp Evangelist Sometimes a little knowledge can save a lot of headache. No more cussing and sweating while you try to get the extrusion to go exactly where you want it to. You can orbit, zoom and pan in order to select a complex three-dimensional path. You can take your time selecting exactly the edges you want. Click (with the Follow Me Tool) the face you want to extrude.Don't worry, though - they're still selected. When you active Follow Me, the edges you selected in Step 2 will appear to deselect they won't be highlighted anymore. Activate the Follow Me Tool by clicking its icon or choosing Tools > Follow Me.Select (with the Select Tool) the edges that make up the extrusion path you want to use.Make sure your extrusion profile (a face) and your extrusion path (one or more edges) are set up the way you want them to be.Next time you need to extrude a face along a path, use Follow Me this way: For complicated extrusion paths, this can be painfully inefficient. In most cases, the wrong way to use Follow Me is to activate the tool, click the face you want to extrude, and attempt to drag it along a set of edges.

There are actually two different ways to use Follow Me, and for complex extrusions, one works way better than the other. When it comes to using the Follow Me tool, most folks have it wrong.

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