[Plugin] follow me rotate

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,...?

wikii · 2 Oct 2008, 14:20

To load a rbs file,you can try to use Sketchup.load

pilou · 2 Oct 2008, 14:41

And for the little problem of orientation?

herodes · 2 Oct 2008, 16:23

@wikii said:

To load a rbs file,you can try to use Sketchup.load

Thanks for answering.
I tried the suggesting and now I get :

@unknownuser said:

Sketchup.load "FollowAndRotate.rbs"
false

... and there is still nothing in the "Plugins" menu.
How did all the others get it working ?

herodes · 4 Oct 2008, 07:09

Sorry for bumping this thread.
Please help.

Daniel S · 4 Oct 2008, 10:53

Herodes:

I think that you don´t install it well
Put the three files in your plugin folder

inputbox.rb
FollowAndRotate_en.rbs
FollowAndRotate_cn.rbs

Perhaps this fix your problem.

Daniel S

herodes · 4 Oct 2008, 11:06

@Daniel S: Thanks it did require that the FollowAndRotate_cn.rbs is in the same folder. That solved it thanks a lot.

It is rather weird that that both scripts are required.

rjb · 4 Oct 2008, 11:24

hi!
this is an awesome plugin.. was able to do lots of things with it..
but m unable to make a fluted tapering column yet..
please guide me if anyone knows the trick....