Follow Me

Knowing how to use the Follow Me tool has changed my life.  But more than changing my life, it changed the life of a ten year-old boy we will call "Bacon." Bacon was a fifth grade student in my 3d printing class.  I am calling him Bacon because he loves bacon. He's drawn pictures of himself with bacon and even wrote a bacon poem. Also, because I don't want some Internet crazy looking up his real name. I did one lesson on using the follow me tool to create a sphere. Make-a-Sphere-in-SketchUp. I showed the students how to do it, and boy, I never imagined what the result would be.  Bacon took that piece of information and ran with it. He started making cones, hexagonal prisms, all sorts of clever things. It was one of those incredible moments for me where I really felt like someone learned something from me.I really love the hat though.  He started with a circle, then did the follow me along the circle's edge to make a donut.  Then push/pull upward to make the top part, and push/pull down on the inside to make room for the head. Each hat took about 20 minutes to print because it was tiny.