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    • MALAISEM Offline
      MALAISE
      last edited by

      Hi Kirill
      Thanks you for the job you've done on this second plugin. It's opening a new world of shapes.. 👍 👍

      MALAISE 😄

      La Connaissance n'a de valeur que partagée

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      • W Offline
        watkins
        last edited by

        Dear Kirill,

        I have just been trying out your plugin and note the following:

        • that the 'undo' doesn't work with your plugin, i.e., I cannot revert back to the drawing before your plugin is used, and

        • your plugin creates lines (steps) which are outside the group which contains the surface. One has to hide the group and then delete the lines. Is this how the plugin is meant to work?

        Looking good.

        Regards,
        Bob

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        • A Offline
          accabrera
          last edited by

          Great Plugin!!!

          Big Thank you

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          • JClementsJ Offline
            JClements
            last edited by

            Krill, nice work. If you can get two objects to follow and blend along a third, curve (path) as was suggested above, then we've got a nice, easy-to-use taper tool.

            I am hoping you can do it.

            Thanks, John

            John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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            • K Offline
              kirill2008
              last edited by

              Hi, Bob.
              Thank's a lot for your feedback, it really helps to improve the script. 👍

              @watkins said:

              Dear Kirill,

              • that the 'undo' doesn't work with your plugin, i.e., I cannot revert back to the drawing before your plugin is used, and

              Well, actually 'undo' works, but yes it sometimes (big steps count value and/or big segments count of initial curves) cannot revert back drawing.
              undodemo.gif
              Animation shows '<Ctrl>+z' combination pressed effect.
              Now (ver 1.3) all steps of Blend command joined to the single command and can be undone as one single action.

              @watkins said:

              • your plugin creates lines (steps) which are outside the group which contains the surface. One has to hide the group and then delete the lines. Is this how the plugin is meant to work?

              Yes, they are supposed to be separated. But now (ver 1.3) I decided to put curves to another separate group.

              @jclements said:

              If you can get two objects to follow and blend along a third, curve (path) as was suggested above, then we've got a nice, easy-to-use taper tool.

              Well, the final destination is an interactive blended object, that consists of 2 initial curves/faces and maybe a path. Interacting with initial curves and/or path has to affect the whole object. Sounds like a kind of challenge for me...

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              • mitcorbM Offline
                mitcorb
                last edited by

                Very interesting tool, kirill:
                Seems to have qualities of Skin.rb and Simple Loft.rb but on steroids.
                Excellent work!
                mitcorb

                I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                • K Offline
                  kirill2008
                  last edited by

                  Little bonus video:
                  [flash=480,385:2yb89gf7]http://www.youtube.com/p/910E7CBB59CD05F8&amp;hl=ru&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"[/flash:2yb89gf7]
                  Ver. 1.4 is able to process more or less complex geometry.

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                  • D Offline
                    Daniel S
                    last edited by

                    This plugins looks great!
                    What about blend colors too?
                    Here an example that creates intermediate faces and colors from two existing ones (2 steps).

                    colorblend.gif
                    Of course this is not sketchup, is only a simulation.

                    Daniel S

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                    • C Offline
                      cosycat
                      last edited by

                      Great script, i've been waiting for something like this for ages. Couple of odd bugs with circles (v1.4)

                      1. seems to miss out a segment when doing a blend
                        circles2.jpg

                      2. if you create the second circle with a move copy, you often get something like this
                        circles1.jpg

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                      • kenK Offline
                        ken
                        last edited by

                        Note sure if it me or note. But I tried V3 and was pleased with the results, however, V4 does not seem to display the same results. Note, I dont' have V3 any more, as I copied over the script, so this is from memory.

                        I particular like how if blended a square to a circle, now every time the output has folds or is not a straight blend from the square to the circle.

                        Ken

                        Fight like your the third monkey on Noah's Ark gangway.

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                        • mitcorbM Offline
                          mitcorb
                          last edited by

                          yeah, I had a gap between the originating curve and the next intervening step toward the destination curve. Easily knitted together with line tool, and so forth, but just mentioning.

                          I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                          • utilerU Offline
                            utiler
                            last edited by

                            This is a nice plugin, mate! I'm going to play!!!!

                            purpose/expression/purpose/....

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                            • T Offline
                              tomot
                              last edited by

                              Nice plugin! but still needs some tweaking.
                              I find it first works with a new fresh startup screen. but then the more experimenting I do with Blend the more inconsistant the results become, finally the Bend of the left Y's in the picture did not take place at all.

                              Error; #<NoMethodError; undefined method `vertices' for nil;NilClass>
                              C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/sublend.rb;45;in `blend'
                              C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/sublend.rb;174
                              C;/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/sublend.rb;153;in `call'
                              
                              

                              please don't give up!


                              y.png

                              [my plugins](http://thingsvirtual.blogspot.ca/)
                              tomot

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                              • K Offline
                                kirill2008
                                last edited by

                                Color blending demo video (for Daniel S 😉 😞
                                [flash=425,344:1ki2zgl4]http://www.youtube.com/v/CqqRssCqONk&hl=ru&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"[/flash:1ki2zgl4]

                                cosycat, please try ver. 1.5. I tried to solve the problem of missing mesh pieces.

                                tomot, I'll try to find out, what's the problem with rotated Y's...

                                And speaking about the 3'd curve (the path): looks like, it demands a kind of major refactoring 😕 It is more complex task than I thought and it will take a little time...

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                                • T Offline
                                  tomot
                                  last edited by

                                  I don't want you to misunderstand. This is not only related to the "y" shape. Other shapes have produced the same inconsistent results in SU 7.
                                  another example:
                                  make 2 identical closed shapes, scale one larger, apply bend, same code error occurs

                                  cheers.

                                  [my plugins](http://thingsvirtual.blogspot.ca/)
                                  tomot

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                                  • K Offline
                                    kirill2008
                                    last edited by

                                    @tomot said:

                                    I don't want you to misunderstand. This is not only related to the "y" shape. Other shapes have produced the same inconsistent results in SU 7.
                                    another example:
                                    make 2 identical closed shapes, scale one larger, apply bend, same code error occurs

                                    Looks like it is SU7 issue... SU6 processes correctly:
                                    [flash=425,344:1p1mvbbo]http://www.youtube.com/v/1D8WUYsS9hw&hl=ru&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"[/flash:1p1mvbbo]
                                    When processing faces it is necessary to select them by single click (not a fence).

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                                    • majidM Offline
                                      majid
                                      last edited by

                                      woooow...it would be a dreamy plugin if no bugs!!..I gave it a try , but it seems that previous versions were better on freehand lines, while the last version doesn't works fine... also on closed line doesn;t works at all (su 6)..seeing forward to see the improvements mate btw thanks thanx thanx! 👍

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                                      • Dave RD Offline
                                        Dave R
                                        last edited by

                                        This is a useful plugin. Well, for me it was until I installed the latest version (1.5). Now I get what you see in the attached screen shot. Unfortunately I installed over the previous version. Keep working at it. I'm sure you'll get it all working.

                                        Thank you.
                                        Blend.jpg

                                        Etaoin Shrdlu

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                                        (THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE)

                                        G28 X0.0 Y0.0 Z0.0

                                        M30

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                                        • D Offline
                                          Daniel S
                                          last edited by

                                          Thank you for adding color blending 😍 😍 😍

                                          I have problems with this new version too (I use SU7).

                                          Sometimes work with results like the ones Dave R post above.
                                          In other cases the plugin dosen´t do anything and prints this in the ruby console:

                                          Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method back_material' for #<Sketchup::Edge:0x67b7f70>> C:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/sublend.rb:68:in blend'
                                          C:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/sublend.rb:270
                                          C:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/sublend.rb:248:in `call'

                                          Daniel S

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                                          • W Offline
                                            watkins
                                            last edited by

                                            Dear Kirill,

                                            It might be a good idea to post versions 1.0 to 1.5 as the later versions seem to be problematic. Version 1.0 seemed to work quite nicely. I too have over-written previous versions and so cannot go back a step or two.

                                            Kind regards,
                                            Bob

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