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The Follow Me tool

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The Follow Me tool

- [Narrator] A lot of people get anxiety. whenever the Follow Me tool is mentioned. I hear things like, "I can't get it to work," or "I don't get it." I hope this exercise will help familiarize you with this extremely useful, yet sometimes painful tool. The Follow Me tool is another way to extrude objects, just like the Push/Pull tool. However, the Follow Me tool, unlike Push/Pull, can go around corners and curves without difficulty creating a beautifully linked extrusion. The Follow Me tool requires two things: A face, usually a profile of the object we will extrude and a path for the profile to follow along for the extrusion. The path is just a series of edges, either straight or curved or a combination of both. I use the Follow Me tool a lot for bullnoses, whether on stairs, around countertops, such as this one, or on trim, such as molding. We will add a bullnose to the nosing on the stairs. All of these treads are…

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