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

bellwells · 8 Feb 2009, 17:11

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

Ecuadorian · 11 Feb 2009, 00:21

It's because the profile itself is kept vertical!

pilou · 11 Feb 2009, 01:43

yes auto intersect

wikii · 11 Feb 2009, 02:47

@unknownuser said:

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

there can‘t has vertical segment in the path.
for the reason? you think it.

gata · 13 Feb 2009, 05:24

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.

davecoopstl · 27 Feb 2009, 20:50

Take a look at this model of a basic roller coaster track.

I drew three circles as the profile: one for the main beam, and two for the coaster rails.

Look at the top of the hill, how the rails cross paths and switch to the opposite sides of the main beam.

Is this expected behavior? Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to keep this from happening?

Hope someone can help.
Thanks!
Dave/

Here's a simple roller coaster track, but the profile is 'reversing' at the top of the hill!

hebrides · 27 Feb 2009, 22:03

Unloaded your rar into SU7 plugins....nothing!. Not surprising, I find that 2 out of 3 free rubies just don't work on first try.
I wish the ruby community would buy themselves installer software and use it when there are other files or folder dependancies.

Click Draw · 1 Mar 2009, 14:13

Which rubies are these???

sorgesu · 2 Mar 2009, 19:23

I was just getting ready to start up dating the manual for my advance classes, in which there is the spiral stair exercise. I thought I would check here to see the progress on this ruby and was so pleasantly surprised to see that it has arrived. Thank you so much for this. Really really appreciated.

Ecuadorian · 5 Mar 2009, 05:12

Thank you, Wikii!

xrok1 · 5 Mar 2009, 05:22

which part did you use followmeandkeep for?