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    • mitcorbM Offline
      mitcorb
      last edited by

      Thank you, TIG.
      I will give this a run through and let you know.

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

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      • D Offline
        Dan
        last edited by

        Thank you, Tig!
        A really useful plugin. And it works perfectly ๐Ÿ˜„ .
        A question, though: the cursor isn't supposed to snap to a given point when asked for the lathe center?
        I noticed the tooltip telling me where my cursor points, but a more consistent visual feedback seems necessary, IMHO.

        Thanks again, great work!

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        • TIGT Offline
          TIG Moderator
          last edited by

          @unknownuser said:

          Tig

          Am I missing something? Is there a difference between your lath tool and 1001bits lath tool? I have used both, and I cannot see any difference in the final product after smoothing.

          Both seemed to do the job, I am just wondering what I am missing.

          Ken

          1001 tools ? ๐Ÿ˜‰
          This is a separate tool written entirely from scratch. ๐Ÿค“

          TIG

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          • TIGT Offline
            TIG Moderator
            last edited by

            The 'pick center-point' prompt/point_pick will 'infer' to any suitable point - e.g. intersection/midpoint/end/on_edge/center etc... but it you have a specific point that you want the arc to sweep from then I suggest you make some cline/guides-intersections or cpoints etc to snap to during the tool - before using it... ๐Ÿค“

            TIG

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            • TIGT Offline
              TIG Moderator
              last edited by

              You can pick the center anywhere - 'off-center' skews stuff BUT you might want that... Set up with guides or cpoints if you want to 'lathe' about a definite center...

              Thanks for the feedbacks... you should know that I wrote it 'from scratch' during today... so there might be [probably are] some improvements possible... Let me know of anything you think might improve it...

              ๐Ÿค“

              TIG

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              • kenK Offline
                ken
                last edited by

                [/quote]

                1001 tools ? ๐Ÿ˜‰
                This is a separate tool written entirely from scratch. ๐Ÿค“

                [/quote]

                TIG
                I certainly did not mean to imply that you plugin was anything but your own creation. I was just wondering if your plugin handled the arc or circle segments or finish the lath function differently. I only ask that question because of the way Sketchup make circles and arcs with segments.

                Again thanks for all you scripts.

                Ken

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

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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  Ken

                  My 'lathe' uses NO arcs at all - all of the edges that are created are pseudo-arcs - i.e. edges that might make an arc BUT aren't actually part of an arc... It simply makes a 'followme' of a face [or any polyline !!!] around a supposed arc shaped path, that is correct without any distortions of the geometry - unlike the built-in 'followme' < 360 degrees...

                  .

                  TIG

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                  • D Offline
                    dtrarch
                    last edited by

                    TIG
                    This is a long needed tool and thanks a bunch for taking the trouble.
                    Long time ago there was one with the same ruby name so good idea to flush the old one if exist before install.

                    Much needed and appreciated by all. ๐Ÿ˜

                    Cheers

                    dtr

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                    • simon le bonS Offline
                      simon le bon
                      last edited by

                      dear Tig,

                      This tool is so great ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘
                      It compensate something we can tell it is an irritating kind of bug of FollowMe Tool when we need to draw a "piece of cake".
                      But it can do much more, and it is so easy to use.. Super ๐Ÿ˜„


                      http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/lathe_Tigth.jpg

                      You surf so easily with ruby that you are a sort of Yoda jedaรฏ in the SketchUpSpace...

                      Thank again, thank for this...
                      simon.

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                      • pilouP Offline
                        pilou
                        last edited by

                        Seems you must say that the "path" or the "face" must be on a vertical plan else maybe result will be not that you want ๐Ÿ˜‰
                        Cool plug as always โ˜€


                        lathe.jpg

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

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                        • N Offline
                          notareal
                          last edited by

                          Thanks!

                          Welcome to try [Thea Render](http://www.thearender.com/), Thea support | [kerkythea.net](http://www.kerkythea.net/) -team member

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
                            last edited by

                            @unknownuser said:

                            Seems you must say that the "path" or the "face" must be on a vertical plan else maybe result will be not that you want ๐Ÿ˜‰
                            Cool plug as always โ˜€

                            @tig said:

                            The selected polyline's edges are swept around in an arc,
                            about the Z-axis [blue] and are faced.

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

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                            • FrederikF Offline
                              Frederik
                              last edited by

                              Thanks, Tig...!

                              @simon le bon said:

                              You surf so easily with ruby that you are a sort of Yoda jedaรฏ in the SketchUpSpace...

                              +1

                              Cheers
                              Kim Frederik

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                              • massimoM Offline
                                massimo Moderator
                                last edited by

                                Many thanks TIG, it works like a charm. ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘

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                                • TIGT Offline
                                  TIG Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  v1.1 is here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=184477#p184477
                                  Improved inferencing of pick cursor and tooltips.
                                  Added second point pick to set axis of rotation.

                                  Thanks for the kind comments so far... ๐Ÿ˜„

                                  TIG

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                                  • B Offline
                                    Ben Ritter
                                    last edited by

                                    I am not able to create a "donut" shape. My shape is oriented in the vertical direction and I select the blue axis for axis of rotation. What am I doing wrong?

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                                    • P Offline
                                      Panga
                                      last edited by

                                      Thanks a lot for this one, definitly needed !!

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                                      • TIGT Offline
                                        TIG Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        @ben ritter said:

                                        I am not able to create a "donut" shape. My shape is oriented in the vertical direction and I select the blue axis for axis of rotation. What am I doing wrong?

                                        Try this...1-2_donut.png

                                        TIG

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                                        • B Offline
                                          Ben Ritter
                                          last edited by

                                          TIG,

                                          That is the process I used, however, without having a short line to define the radius point.

                                          In my attachment, you can see the result with and without a reference line for the radius point. The inference was indicating that I was going up in the blue axis direction, but I still got the result shown.

                                          Thanks. Ben

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                                          • B Offline
                                            Ben Ritter
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