[Plugin] Lines to tubes

[juju]

@marian said:

i think there should also be an option to make not round tubes but square hexagonal triangular ones.

I think if you downloaded the plugin and checked the manual you'd see that it already does what you want.

[Didier Bur]

@unknownuser said:

i think there should also be an option to make not round tubes but square hexagonal triangular ones.

Read the doc and USE PRECISIOn !!!
You beat me on this Juju !

[CameronVan]

@unknownuser said:

@unknownuser said:

for the problems, maybe you must disable the old "line2cyl.rb"?
maybe...

I did not have a chance to look at this until now on my work machine. I had line2cyl.rb here as well. I installed Lines to tubes and got the same results... not showing up. So I then tried as you suggested Pilou, deleting line2cyl.rb and now it is showing up.
Thanks.

Ahhh, great.
Thanks Pilou!

[Marian]

Silly me....i did download the plugin and tried it before posting that...which makes me a bigger fool...but i didn't try the options...and manuals...who ever reads them?

[Didier Bur]

@unknownuser said:

and manuals...who ever reads them?

Those who don't want to bother doc writers

[lorca]

Great plugin. Is there a way to close the gaps in sharp corners just like in "Pipe Along Path"?

[lexmonteiro]

@gaucho said:

@didier bur said:

@unknownuser said:

would be possible to modify so we could extrude along square shapes as well?

Use a precision of 4 and you'll get square section prisms.(RTFM)

Simple anD easy.. MERCI!

Great plugin, I was trying to create a window and realized that using precision 4, the corners were at 45 degrees, can I control the orientation of the angles?
Thanks!

[chango70]

Doesn't show up for me. I don't have older version at all. Any ideas?

[xrok1]

i just DLd and it showed up in tools menu.

thanks dedier!

[chango70]

Whats DLd?

[chango70]

Its working now! WOOHOO! Great plugin!

[xrok1]

@chango70 said:

Whats DLd?

downloaded

[flipya]

I love this plugin! It's so incredibly easy to use and all the options I need are included. A+ for ease of use!
Combined with the soapskin bubble plugin it's almost addictive

It does sometimes crash my sketchup. The progress percentage builds up, slows down, and eventually just stops. A second or third try (saving before starting) usually does the job though.

All in all, pretty much brilliant!

[majid]

first I must thank you for your handy tool Dider, and then I thought if you could combine this plugin with a geosphere creator + an option to have sphere in junction points, then we would have A LATTIC TOOL ,right in sketchup, that makes space frames easy.

[pilou]

@majid
for some things you can use that
A cool use of this "Multiple Face Offset" By Remus
If you don't use it in this case Windowizer(3 free or 4) By Rick Wilson @Smustard
don't make the "Frame Inset"!
Windowizer is a crazzy plug : All types of piercing windows + multiple selections

Selection Only faces by Selection Toys by Thomthom
Invert Selection by TIG

For Crazzy Geodesic domes By TaffGoch @ 3Dwarehouse
His site Crazzy PDF collector!

[TIG]

My EEbyFace also does something similar but it allows you to define the extrusion's cross section by making a 'flat' face [it's Y green axis = extrusions initial Z blue axis] - the face can be any shape you like so you are no longer limited to circular tubes...

[harshal kshatriya]

wow its working man............
i love it
thanks a lot

[cadmunkey]

Just installed this plugin and its great for converting custom autocad hatches into solids. Thanks man!

[pilou]

@unknownuser said:

no longer limited to circular tube

Didier Bur plug "Line to tubes" can make circles of 3 edges so a triangle, 4 edges so a square, etc...

[agamemnus]

I tried this, but the tubes don't get "welded" / smoothed at edges:
http://img109.imageshack.us/i/tubes.png/

Is there a plugin that does this?

Edit: Ok, never mind.. I used BZ tools to convert my loop to a bezier curve (edit 2: polyline is better, actually, for this...), and then applied this plugin. It's all welded now!