[Plugin] follow me rotate

silver_shadow · 29 Sept 2008, 04:58

%(#FFBF00)[Wheeee, thanx a million !!! ]

bigstick · 29 Sept 2008, 07:04

This is fantastic! Thanks a lot wikii!

plot-paris · 29 Sept 2008, 10:06

phantastic plugin Wikii! thanks for sharing

however, when I use a welded curve, I get very unexpected results. something doesn't seem to be working with welded paths. everything works fine if I use a bezier curve (no matter how complicated)

and I have a suggestion for a future update:
if you have a face with it's midpoint not at the starting point of the curve, the cuve will be moved to this centre point.
would it be possible to prevent this from happening, so that you can use a shape with an offset, that is twisted arround the path with a certain distance.
or even better, could you change the script to allow the use of several seperate faces?

watkins · 29 Sept 2008, 10:31

Any chance of making this available as a .zip file? I have problems with files with .rar extensions.

pilou · 29 Sept 2008, 10:33

Funny

@unknownuser said:

Any chance of making this available as a .zip file? I have problems with files with .rar extensions.

Done

Far.zip

wikii · 29 Sept 2008, 12:38

@plot-paris said:

and I have a suggestion for a future update:
if you have a face with it's midpoint not at the starting point of the curve, the cuve will be moved to this centre point.
would it be possible to prevent this from happening, so that you can use a shape with an offset, that is twisted arround the path with a certain distance.

Try to select one curve , one face and one construction point , then , using FAR. The construction point will be treated as the center of the face.

plot-paris · 29 Sept 2008, 13:11

weird. it only works for me, if I have a curve as a path. it doesn't work with a straight line like in your example (not even the dialog box for rotation/scale input appears)...

but arround a curve it looks really cool!

marcosrodrigues · 29 Sept 2008, 13:46

Seems very promising, Wikii. Thank you.

pilou · 29 Sept 2008, 13:53

@unknownuser said:

it doesn't work with a straight line like in your example

Your are not alone
And yet some erratic Works for 2 straight lines welded, sometimes yes, sometime no

yesno.skp

Dave R · 29 Sept 2008, 14:54

Interesting plugin but this is what I get.

wikii · 29 Sept 2008, 15:21

@dave r said:

Interesting plugin but this is what I get.

select a face without it's border

Dave R · 29 Sept 2008, 15:29

thank you. that works.

watkins · 29 Sept 2008, 16:18

Dear Pilou,

Thanks for posting the .zip file.

Regards,
Bob

free agent · 29 Sept 2008, 17:44

hey wow awsome plugin, thanx for posting, is there any way to reverse the triangulation of the faces, i noticed that once smoothed the and as you rotate the form it gets very jaggy at the edges and you have to go in there with the flip edge tool to smooth it out... any way around this within the coding?

juju · 29 Sept 2008, 18:51

We have some very gifted people here, only surpassed by their generosity. Thank you (all the ruby programmers, both free and commercial) so much for SU so much than it was.

cyan.archnet · 30 Sept 2008, 07:25

simply "AMAZING", will give it a try, THANKS A LOT !!

dirkkkk · 30 Sept 2008, 15:11

When I am using the plug in I get a bug splat... don`t know why

Could It be because I am using a 64 bit system,

Thanks,

Gaieus · 2 Oct 2008, 07:53

@unknownuser said:

Could It be because I am using a 64 bit system,

or it conflicts with another plugin.
You can test this by removing your plugins one by one and constntly restarting SU after each. A little tedious if you have a lot.

notareal · 2 Oct 2008, 09:32

Nice work!

herodes · 2 Oct 2008, 09:33

I am having difficulties running this script. Inside the latest Far.rar I find:

inputbox.rb -- for the interface
FollowAndRotate_en.rbs -- the English version of the script
FollowAndRotate_cn.rbs -- the Chinese version of the script
far.skp -- example output

I extract inputbox.rb and FollowAndRorate_en.rbs in the Sketchup Plugins folder and execute sketchup.exe. Going to the Plugins menu there is nothing to be found...

In the Ruby console, I type "load 'FollowAndRotate_en.rbs'" and get this:

load "FollowAndRotate_en.rbs"
Error; #<SyntaxError; (eval);87;in `load'; C;/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/FollowAndRotate_en.rbs;1; no .<digit> floating literal anymore; put 0 before dot
RBS1.0
     ^
C;/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/FollowAndRotate_en.rbs;1; syntax error
RBS1.0
      ^
C;/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/FollowAndRotate_en.rbs;1; Invalid char `\020' in expression>
(eval);87

can you help me,...?