[Plugin] FollowMe and keep (v0.04 update 20090210)

xrok1 · 8 Feb 2009, 02:31

an option for the sweep to start at the beginning of the line no matter where the profile is drawn would make this perfect. maybe a checkbox for start at path or start at profile. then maybe a normal(size of path) or distance from(size*distance from path) instead of the construction point. it seems a pain to make a construction point?

xrok1 · 8 Feb 2009, 02:45

hey , i just noticed the
@unknownuser said:

follow me rotate
script is written by wikii too! any chance the two will be combined

pilou · 8 Feb 2009, 03:07

Now it's perfect!

Can you make a version where the plug is in the Draw menu, because I have no more place on the Plugins menu!

(Click on image if scroll bars exist)

gata · 8 Feb 2009, 03:26

I have some paths where both versions of the script failed. On the bright side, they will be good for future testing.

Edit: More fun things to play with (done on the figure 8 path):

different results if the path is welded verses non-welded.
if the edges of the extruding face are also selected, the extrusion face is reversed and the extrusion location changes.

Follow Me boo-boo.skp

bianhai · 8 Feb 2009, 04:23

Thanks Wikii!

FAK.skp

gilles · 8 Feb 2009, 12:13

I've been waiting for this tool for a while.

Thanks.

But there is something wrong:

It does not really follow the path, see attached files.

And sometimes SU quite.

OSX 10.4 SU6

FAK.skp

Jean-Franco · 8 Feb 2009, 13:32

Hi, that was also my remark from yesterday. Have a look at the beginning of this thread.
You have to place a construction point at the origin of your curved path. Then it works.
This is equivalent to scene 2 in the WiKi's file FAK.skp

boilingsnow · 8 Feb 2009, 14:17

@gilles said:

I've been waiting for this tool for a while.

Thanks.

But there is something wrong:

It does not really follow the path, see attached files.

And sometimes SU quite.

OSX 10.4 SU6

I think it will be no problem if you make the path in the middle of the profile instead at one side of it.

wikii · 8 Feb 2009, 15:39

@gata said:

I have some paths where both versions of the script failed. On the bright side, they will be good for future testing.

Edit: More fun things to play with (done on the figure 8 path):

different results if the path is welded verses non-welded.

if the edges of the extruding face are also selected, the extrusion face is reversed and the extrusion location changes.

download v0.03
all problems in your skp is solved.

wikii · 8 Feb 2009, 15:41

@gilles said:

I've been waiting for this tool for a while.

Thanks.

But there is something wrong:

It does not really follow the path, see attached files.

And sometimes SU quite.

OSX 10.4 SU6

Add a construciont point at the start piont of path and select it before running.

bellwells · 8 Feb 2009, 17:11

@xrok1 said:

an option for the sweep to start at the beginning of the line no matter where the profile is drawn would make this perfect. maybe a checkbox for start at path or start at profile. then maybe a normal(size of path) or distance from(size*distance from path) instead of the construction point. it seems a pain to make a construction point?

I think this would be a great improvement. Regardless, this is a tremendous script, wikii. Thank you so very much!!

gata · 9 Feb 2009, 01:38

Good job. There was a big improvement in just a few hours.

Using the same SKP file with the face position in the same locations, some of the face profiles extruded on the wrong side and one relocated.

In all cases the path, construction point, face+edges were selected to run the plugin.

Paths that intersect will most likely need to be done in sections. Plugins have limited mind-reading abilities, but version .03 at least was able to do extrude something along the entire complex path in one step.

(These two paths upset the last plugin attempt to correct the follow me twist.)

pilou · 9 Feb 2009, 02:07

Is there a conceptual difference with the Profile Builder by Whaat ?

thomthom · 9 Feb 2009, 08:31

@unknownuser said:

Is there a conceptual difference with the Profile Builder by Whaat ?

PB uses the FollowMe tool to create the profiles and therefore suffers from twisting. This one if a custom implmentation that prevents twisting.

pilou · 9 Feb 2009, 08:37

Thx for precision

wikii · 9 Feb 2009, 12:47

@gata said:

Good job. There was a big improvement in just a few hours.

Using the same SKP file with the face position in the same locations, some of the face profiles extruded on the wrong side and one relocated.

In all cases the path, construction point, face+edges were selected to run the plugin.

Paths that intersect will most likely need to be done in sections. Plugins have limited mind-reading abilities, but version .03 at least was able to do extrude something along the entire complex path in one step.

(These two paths upset the last plugin attempt to correct the follow me twist.)

Try to reverse face before using FAK.

dtrarch · 9 Feb 2009, 16:04

Wikii

Any chance of adding an align face/profile perpendicular to endpoint fcn?
Maybe just a separate script would do or does one exist that will pick face and align by selecting the endpoint of the path??

dtr

gata · 10 Feb 2009, 04:06

Wikii,

I got mixed results by reversing the face. Sometimes the reversal worked, sometimes not.

People who want FAK to model nice looking roads in a landscape would have some intersecting paths.

I mistakenly selected two faces for the plugin to extrude at the same time. FAK made 2 groups. One good, and one looks strange.

FAK .03 test 2.skp

wikii · 10 Feb 2009, 11:23

v0.04 updated.

pilou · 10 Feb 2009, 12:50

you pass from rbs to rb
So I can put your crazy plug in the Tools menu! Thx!
Seems there is yet a lilbug
if I incline & rotate the curve to the ground that works

lilbugs.skp