[Plugin] Extrude Edges by Rails

TIG · 6 Jan 2010, 22:05

Hi Tig,
Just to confirm it all seems to work on the mac, tool bar stays between sessions, no new clashes, needed a few more 'first rail reversals' then previous, but I just randomly chucked down and rotated 2 lines to test on, so not surprised, just gets better... cheers.
one thought, is it possible to allow navigating to see if you need to reverse a rail, from some views the new mesh can hide an issue?
john

I am still looking at ways of removing [most] rails reversal issues - probably in next release...

DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ · 7 Jan 2010, 02:47

excellent plugin. really very useful. thank you very much for sharing tig

TIG · 7 Jan 2010, 09:02

@urs0815 said:

Hallo Tig,
Great plugin!
Could you make it possible, that if I change one of the original curves/rails,
the mesh gets rebuild automatically...

It would be possible to link the rails/profiles/mesh together and observe if a rail/profile changed and redo the mesh... BUT since curves are so easily split or erased and the meshes are often intended to be pieces of larger assemblies I have no plans to do this [yet?]... EEbyRails is intended as a quick way to make a meshed surface bounded by profiles and rails - and that's it at the moment...

plot-paris · 7 Jan 2010, 09:26

thank you very much TIG. results seem to be a lot more predictable now (on Mac). great work!
I am looking forward to all the prompts at the end being gathered in one window...

charly2008 · 7 Jan 2010, 14:42

Hi,

Some experiments with only three curves. gives interesting organic forms.

Experiment with Three curves.skp

mitcorb · 7 Jan 2010, 18:07

TIG:
Thank you very much for sharing v2-1. In your honor, I renamed my copy of the zip file TIG-EExRv2-1. This will also help me to identify the file for housekeeping.
You really are a very talented non-sleeper.
Best regards,
mitcorb

Arc · 8 Jan 2010, 09:25

Thank you very much TIG, it's very useful.
I'm Arc from http://www.SuBlog.net
Here is my translation.

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TIG · 8 Jan 2010, 09:59

@arc said:

Thank you very much TIG, it's very useful.
I'm Arc from http://www.SuBlog.net
Here is my translation.

I'll include it with future releases - thanks

Kazziga · 10 Jan 2010, 16:47

Thanks TIG! This is what I've been waiting for! It will help me with making the hull of the Brazilian steam frigate Amazonas and some other 19th century warships that are waiting to be made in 3D.

watkins · 10 Jan 2010, 18:22

Dear All,

Having read through all the posts, and noted all the different examples and advice on how best to use this plugin, it seems to me that now would be the time to collect the body of knowledge encompassed by the many posts into a succinct User/Readme document (preferably a .pdf document). Anyone feel like doing this? I would, but I'm much too lazy, and I think TIG is probably too busy.

Kind regards,
Bob

mitcorb · 11 Jan 2010, 19:46

TIG:
As I understand, the melding profile is optional. I don't see the switch/option to disallow this in 2.1, or is there one?
I do have the toolbar icon loaded.

TIG · 11 Jan 2010, 19:49

@mitcorb said:

TIG:
As I understand, the melding profile is optional. I don't see the switch/option to disallow this in 2.1, or is there one?
I do have the toolbar icon loaded.

In this Tool both Rail-2 AND the Melding-Profile are 'optional' BUT you must still pick four things...

Pick the Profile
Pick Rail-1 [can be any Curve except the Profile]
Pick Rail-2 [can be any Curve except the Profile] OR you can re-pick Rail-1 which will then be 'repeated' at the other end of the Profile as Rail-2
Pick Melding-Profile [can be any Curve except the Rails] OR you can re-pick the Profile which will then be 'repeated' at the other end of the Rails as the Melding-Profile

mitcorb · 12 Jan 2010, 02:42

That clears it up for me.
Thank you, TIG

driven · 14 Jan 2010, 03:56

@junpei said:

it doesn't work well...why??? on OSX 10.5.8 SU version 6

Easiest way to get that to happen is to click out of sequence. or by re-using the same profiles, there's lots of tips to avoid that in previous posts, any by me were done on 10.5.8 with SU7 (may make a difference, but I haven't seen any reports on that front)

keep trying, it's well worth it.

john

TIG · 14 Jan 2010, 09:12

@driven said:

@junpei said:

it doesn't work well...why??? on OSX 10.5.8 SU version 6

Easiest way to get that to happen is to click out of sequence. or by re-using the same profiles, there's lots of tips to avoid that in previous posts, any by me were done on 10.5.8 with SU7 (may make a difference, but I haven't seen any reports on that front)

keep trying, it's well worth it.

john

There's an update due out shortly that should fix this...

boofredlay · 14 Jan 2010, 21:46

The more I use this tool the happier I become

utiler · 14 Jan 2010, 23:19

A ply chair in the making, Boo?

cmoreink · 15 Jan 2010, 01:38

It looks like a great tool, only if it worked for me... so here is the problem: I downloaded, unzipped, installed, it shows in "plugins" and "view""toolbar" and I also have a nice icon. I draw one curve, a second and a third, I click on icon EEbR (I just downloaded v2.1) and the msg. at the bottom displays to click on profile curve, I do, askes to click on 1st rail, I do, askes to click on 2nd rail, I do and finally it askes to click on melding profile (profile curve), I do. Then it ask few questions like do I want reverse 1st rail, do I want reverse faces and etc. . Once it's done IT DOES NOTHING it only shows some crosses on my profile curve. So I read the whole topic and msgs over and oaver again, reinstalled it, I even downloaded TIGs example on page 6 (seems like the same problem as "dicoy88" pg. 6) and it would not work... anyone know why?
thanks
Oh, and I have a SU v6

pilou · 15 Jan 2010, 08:36

Try it with another version of SU!
Rename your SU folder first for have no overwrite of your curent version!

TIG · 15 Jan 2010, 10:42

@cmoreink said:

It looks like a great tool, only if it worked for me... so here is the problem: I downloaded, unzipped, installed, it shows in "plugins" and "view""toolbar" and I also have a nice icon. I draw one curve, a second and a third, I click on icon EEbR (I just downloaded v2.1) and the msg. at the bottom displays to click on profile curve, I do, askes to click on 1st rail, I do, askes to click on 2nd rail, I do and finally it askes to click on melding profile (profile curve), I do. Then it ask few questions like do I want reverse 1st rail, do I want reverse faces and etc. . Once it's done IT DOES NOTHING it only shows some crosses on my profile curve. So I read the whole topic and msgs over and oaver again, reinstalled it, I even downloaded TIGs example on page 6 (seems like the same problem as "dicoy88" pg. 6) and it would not work... anyone know why?
thanks
Oh, and I have a SU v6

An update is due out shortly, so this might resolve it...
I'm still unsure why this is happening to a small handful of users - I can't reproduce it at my end - can you PM me an example problem SKP with the curves etc and perhaps so text added to them to show the order of picking the [1/2/3/4] ?