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    • D Offline
      Dan
      last edited by

      Thank you, Tig!
      A really useful plugin. And it works perfectly πŸ˜„ .
      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 ? πŸ˜‰
        This is a separate tool written entirely from scratch. πŸ€“

        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... πŸ€“

          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...

            πŸ€“

            TIG

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            • kenK Offline
              ken
              last edited by

              [/quote]

              1001 tools ? πŸ˜‰
              This is a separate tool written entirely from scratch. πŸ€“

              [/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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                  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. 😍

                  Cheers

                  dtr

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                  • simon le bonS Offline
                    simon le bon
                    last edited by

                    dear Tig,

                    This tool is so great πŸ‘ πŸ‘ πŸ‘
                    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 πŸ˜„


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

                    You surf so easily with ruby that you are a sort of Yoda jedaΓ― 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 πŸ˜‰
                      Cool plug as always β˜€


                      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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                          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 πŸ˜‰
                          Cool plug as always β˜€

                          @tig said:

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

                          Thomas Thomassen β€” 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 jedaΓ― 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. πŸ‘ πŸ‘

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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... πŸ˜„

                                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
                                          last edited by

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                                          lathe1.jpg

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                                          • TIGT Offline
                                            TIG Moderator
                                            last edited by

                                            @ben ritter said:

                                            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

                                            Did the VCB say [0.0,0.0,1.0] - i.e. Z-axis... If you start off in the blue Z-direction and hold down the shift-key the interference is locked to blue and when you pick it should definitely be axial... You don't need the short line - I added it for clarity. You can start to move off in the blue direction, hold-down shift to lock in the blue and pick any point above the center and it should snap to vertical ?

                                            TIG

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