[Plugin] SketchyFFD (Classic)

myrto · 19 Oct 2009, 10:31

hello, i need a bit of help. I downloaded the ruby and copied it in the plugin directory but the ffd tool doesnt show up when i restart sketchup. Any ideas?

massimo · 19 Oct 2009, 11:28

Hi myrto, as far as i know, FFD works on groups. So you have to group your object then right click and you will find FFD in your context menu. Add how many control points you want and use the tool.
Read the very first post of this thread for detailed explanations.

avya · 30 Oct 2009, 17:54

thanks...

i'm gonna make make a try for this one.

majid · 31 Oct 2009, 11:06

it seems that doesn't work on my SU7.1 free version anyone ealse has fronted with such problem too?

xrok1 · 31 Oct 2009, 18:03

worked for me in 7.1 pro?

BTW, i just used this script for first time for an actual purpose instead of just playing! awsome thanks again. there was no other way i could think of to achieve the same result. i'm sure i could have tweaked and tweaked manually until i gave up. put its not my style.

chango70 · 1 Nov 2009, 16:49

Doesn't appear to work anymore... (The May Version works fine)

xrok1 · 1 Nov 2009, 17:31

yeah, i think i made have the older version.

BlueScreen · 3 Nov 2009, 09:02

Hello my name paan,

can you find or make sketchup plugin that can detect the edge of the texture and turn into that shape . It's more like make the rectangle turn into the shape of the texture that have transparent background .

sorry for my bad English and i hope you understand what i meant
and if you find it don't forgate to send an email to me at:
fan_mustar@yahoo.com.my

plot-paris · 3 Nov 2009, 11:07

hi paan,

I think that is quite difficult, because SketchUp isn't ment to do such operations with textures. I am not a ruby coder though.
if you have got Adobe Illustrator there may be a workaround by importing the image, tracing it and then exporting as dwg. file. then you can import the dwg into SketchUp... haven't done it myself though.

oh, and in future it might be better to open up a new thread for such enquiries. that is a completely different topic after all. having it as a separate discussion would help others too, when they are looking to solve similar problems

thomthom · 3 Nov 2009, 11:21

@bluescreen said:

Hello my name paan,

can you find or make sketchup plugin that can detect the edge of the texture and turn into that shape . It's more like make the rectangle turn into the shape of the texture that have transparent background .

sorry for my bad English and i hope you understand what i meant
and if you find it don't forgate to send an email to me at:
fan_mustar@yahoo.com.my

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=2564

majid · 3 Nov 2009, 15:01

I am confusing...FFD works for me occasionally!!!

plot-paris · 3 Nov 2009, 15:05

same for me. sometimes it works with 3x3 control points. sometimes it doesn't. sometimes it just needs a restart. sometimes it needs a whole new file. and sometimes it doesn't work at all, no matter what I do (custom control point numbers don't seem to work at all anymore).

so I am afraid this script needs to be rewritten for SU 7.1
what a pity

CPhillips · 4 Nov 2009, 03:14

Sorry, I wasnt keeping up on this thread.

There is a problem with the script under 7.1 or just 7.0? Can you give me some idea how to reproduce the bug? If it starts misbehaving open up the ruby console and see if it is printing any errors.

majid · 7 Nov 2009, 10:30

now I have only 7.1, and no idea , how it works/or not!!!!

krash88 · 16 Nov 2009, 15:55

Here's what I get in the console on 7.1 running on XP Home...

WARNING: make_unique is a deprecated method of Sketchup:Group
Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method `*' for nil:NilClass>

starship · 13 Dec 2009, 22:38

I registered just to say thank you for this BRILLIANT plugin!
As a side note, I have Windows Vista and SU 7. No problems at all. The plugin is working fine for me.

mariocha · 14 Dec 2009, 03:26

@cphillips said:

There is a problem with the script under 7.1 or just 7.0? Can you give me some idea how to reproduce the bug? If it starts misbehaving open up the ruby console and see if it is printing any errors.

Well, here, under 7.1 Mac, it still works but not as well as before. No matter where the group is located, the FFD dot matrix appears at the origin.

The console does provide a warning:
%(#0000BF)[onSelectionBulkChange1
Webdialog set to#Sketchup::Group:0x1ce30424
WARNING: make_unique is a deprecated method of Sketchup:Group
onSelectionCleared]
Hope this helps.

mariocha · 22 Dec 2009, 15:58

Good news, I guess the last update of SU corrected something related cause FDD now works just fine again.
No matrix offset anymore

bmscmoreira · 5 Jan 2010, 21:07

First, thanks to the author for this great plugin! Unfortunately Im not getting it to work right with the latest sketchup release (SketchUp 7 (7.1.5803) and OSX.
The live update does not work, and only the 3x3 FFD works (with no live update).
My console reports this:

When creating the 3x3 FFD control points:
"WARNING: make_unique is a deprecated method of Sketchup:Group"

When creating the NxN FFD control points:
"WARNING: make_unique is a deprecated method of Sketchup:Group
Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method *' for nil:NilClass> /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/SketchyFFD.rb:453:in calcBernstein'
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/SketchyFFD.rb:210:in initFFD' /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/SketchyFFD.rb:209:in upto'
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/SketchyFFD.rb:209:in initFFD' /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/SketchyFFD.rb:200:in each'
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/SketchyFFD.rb:200:in initFFD' /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/SketchyFFD.rb:151:in startFFD'
/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins/SketchyFFD.rb:20"

Hope to fix this soon... the plugin is a really must-have

Agisen · 15 Jan 2010, 08:05

thank you