[REQ] -- BEND.rb

wrecknball

Fredo6 wrote:
The reason I asked is that, although Bending is definitely not part of the native Sketchup transformation and can give interesting results, I am curious to know if it could be useful in a 'practical' 3D design life.

I am a environmental graphic designer. I design high end custom signage all day long. The most tedious part of designing in sketchup for me is the inability to "bend" text onto a curved surface. For now I have to go through many steps to get the text to appear to wrap the surface. If my client needs a change then it just takes me even long because I have to start over.

This script of yours would be way up there on my list of the most valuable scripts in my arsenal.

Looking forward to making my life easier.

Thanks.

takesh h

@unknownuser said:

I am curious to know if it could be useful in a 'practical' 3D design life.

There are some operations I can think of that cannot be done (at least easily, when not impossible) without using this Ruby.
The first is a bent text (text put on a path) as shown in earlier posts in this thread.
Those letters can be many different things... very promising.
Another possibly new operation is bending entities whose section profiles change along their lengths.
The Ruby can be used as lofting tool or sweep tool. Now we can make curvy legs of certain tables very easily.

In any case, good control on how bending take place is the key. Cannot wait to try it.

remus

Youve gone and gotten us all excited fredo no pressure now...

fredo6

It's coming.
Some people suggested to use it for this

Spoon bend.wmv

solo

Dang!!

I am so anticipating this plugin, I have a million ideas on how I will use it.

thomthom

@unknownuser said:

It's coming.
Some people suggested to use it for this
[attachment=1:g7z92h4x]spoon.jpg[/attachment:g7z92h4x]

thehee The secret of Uri Geller

erikB

wow !!!
but the bending of the word sketchup blew me away. Something I could use.
Looking forward to the release of the script !

erikB

AcesHigh

wonderful.

so many incredible plugins being released. I wonder why some of these obvious ones were not bundled from the start with Sketchup.

leixing

wonderful.

Beyond words to express my surprise
Looking forward to the release of the plugin.

Phil Rader AIA

Ditto This will be a useful plug-in

utiler

no way, this is nuts!!!!!!

free agent

crazy stuff, send you resume to Google, work ur way in there and recreate Sketchup awesome

JClements

Who was that guy back in the 60's or 70's that bent spoons, Gallager? We have Zorro, what about Gallager?

Burkhard

Uri Geller!

Chris Fullmer

Although a galager script would be a lot of fun - smashing things into a zillion pieces. not a bad idea.....

Ecuadorian

There is no spoon.

(It's just a computer simulation of a spoon.)

pilou

Gaieus

Well, I haven't been able to read too much of the Ruby Forum for a while but as I see,it's the perfet time that I dropped by. This looks really awesome, Fredo, and I am definitely looking forward to it!

One question: will it also bend the texture applied onto the face? Think of an arch for instance where you need the texture of bricks go radially. Something like this (just not so lame hopefully - I did that manually on a fairly low poly arch)

BTW - I still owe you with a translation of a plugin...

MALAISE

Hi All

Hey Gaius, quite good suggestion!

MALAISE

Jim

Just saw the new video, Fredo - you've outdone yourself. This is a milestone plugin.