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    • B Offline
      bianhai
      last edited by

      Thanks Wikii!
      πŸ‘
      1.jpg
      2.jpg
      3.jpg
      FAK.skp

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      • gillesG Offline
        gilles
        last edited by

        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.jpg


        FAK.skp

        " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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        • Jean-FrancoJ Offline
          Jean-Franco
          last edited by

          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

          Jean-Franco

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            boilingsnow
            last edited by

            @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.

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            • W Offline
              wikii
              last edited by

              @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):

              1. different results if the path is welded verses non-welded.
              2. 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.

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                wikii
                last edited by

                @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.

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                • B Offline
                  bellwells
                  last edited by

                  @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!!

                  Ron

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                  • G Offline
                    gata
                    last edited by

                    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.)


                    FollowMeKeep .03.jpg

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                    • pilouP Offline
                      pilou
                      last edited by

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

                      Frenchy Pilou
                      Is beautiful that please without concept!
                      My Little site :)

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
                        last edited by

                        @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.

                        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                        • pilouP Offline
                          pilou
                          last edited by

                          Thx for precision 😎

                          Frenchy Pilou
                          Is beautiful that please without concept!
                          My Little site :)

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                          • W Offline
                            wikii
                            last edited by

                            @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.

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                              dtrarch
                              last edited by

                              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

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                              • G Offline
                                gata
                                last edited by

                                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

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                                • W Offline
                                  wikii
                                  last edited by

                                  v0.04 updated.

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                                  • pilouP Offline
                                    pilou
                                    last edited by

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


                                    lilbug.jpg


                                    lilbugs.skp

                                    Frenchy Pilou
                                    Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                    My Little site :)

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                                      Ecuadorian
                                      last edited by

                                      It's because the profile itself is kept vertical!

                                      -Miguel Lescano
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                                      • pilouP Offline
                                        pilou
                                        last edited by

                                        yes auto intersect πŸ˜„

                                        Frenchy Pilou
                                        Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                        My Little site :)

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                                        • W Offline
                                          wikii
                                          last edited by

                                          @unknownuser said:

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

                                          there canβ€˜t has vertical segment in the path.
                                          for the reason? you think it.
                                          πŸ˜‰

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                                          • G Offline
                                            gata
                                            last edited by

                                            Wikii,

                                            All attempts to extrude a profile - from several locations and profile face orientations - on the figure 8 path worked very well.

                                            The way reversing the profile face only changes the orientation of the extruded faces is very nice. People making tunnels, or are otherwise are more interested in the inside of the extrusion will like this feature. It's a keeper.

                                            FAK did not like quite like extruding unless the face was at the end of the selected path. The shape was fine, but the group moved to a new location.

                                            And when I ran the script on the entire path, at least one face did not close near the path intersection area.


                                            FAK .04 test.jpg

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