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[Plugin] Shape Bender Beta

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    cupko
    last edited by 5 Jan 2010, 23:43

    Great plugin! πŸ˜„ πŸ‘ πŸ‘
    Thanks!!

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      t_gia197
      last edited by 11 Jan 2010, 04:21

      When I clik straight line, after that, arc line...the comand not show ACCEPT AND TRANSFORM. It show ACEEPT = ENTER. So that, I can't do it like your Tut. Can You help me.
      Thanks
      ( I'm using Vista x64 OS, SU ver. 7.0 pro )

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        Chris Fullmer
        last edited by 11 Jan 2010, 04:28

        You should just be able to press the enter key and it will finish bending the shape. Does that work?, or are you having a different problem?

        Chris

        Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
        All my Plugins I've written

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          muchado
          last edited by 11 Jan 2010, 16:25

          @chris fullmer said:

          Oh good, glad you found that post and were able to get it working.

          I'm amazed at how many zip programs do not correctly unzip these plugins. The winzip I have at work is one of these that just ignores all folder and subfolder organization inside of .zip files, and just extracts everything to the same folder - very frustrating. And wreaks havoc on plugins dependent on folder organization...But glad its working. Of course, now you have to deal with all the bugs and issues involved with the script πŸ˜„

          Chris

          WinZip has a setting in options where you can choose to extract all files into one folder. I suspect that this is how many people have it set up.

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            ayieartwork
            last edited by 19 Jan 2010, 01:58

            Hi.im new here.why i cant download the plugin.help2!

            Intel Core i7-3930k with 16gb G.Skill Ripjaws

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              Gaieus
              last edited by 19 Jan 2010, 05:05

              @ayieartwork said:

              Hi.im new here.why i cant download the plugin.help2!

              Hi Fadhli,

              The plugin is attached to the first post of this topic. If you have problems, please, have a look at this announcement and delete your browser cookies:
              http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=19797

              Gai...

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                driven
                last edited by 19 Jan 2010, 05:45

                Hi Chris,
                great tool, again...

                I'm working on a font stringer idea for 3D stainless steel printing and this does 90% of the basic component build beautifully, but as I need to now do this to a full character set, I'm was wondering if a few features could be added.
                the concept

                and this is just 'CopyRotate' version, but I have also done some test's with 'ComponentStringer' following more complex curves.

                the '%' are component (place holders)

                one of the steps that may be improved is after the second bend, of the 'letter' component, both ends need to be rotated back to the arc centre, I can't think of an easy way to do this and was thinking that being able to choose the arc centre as part of the parameters would be useful, or better still if "FindArcCentrePoint" could be utilized to find it's own on a multi-arc line.
                another is stipulating which is start and end on both lines (it changes from character to character even though I'm using locked templates and Copy-PastseInPlace' to generate them)

                To be honest I'm really just throwing some quick early ideas out there for any comments

                john
                EDIT
                with 'A' character replacement (not fully tweaked)

                learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                  driven
                  last edited by 29 Jan 2010, 03:33

                  Hi Chris,

                  I had to do a job today using Shapebender to put text on tubes, as above, but more refined.

                  to my surprise, I actually had all the dialogs, option to select ends ,ect before running, I really didn't know they were there.

                  however, instead of making curved fonts, when I switched ends all it did was make an empty group, click again, another empty group, hit return another group.

                  I had outliner on, which is how I saw the groups, but suspecting it might be the problem, tuned it off, same thing.

                  working backward through my ruby instals, functionality returned when I removed the new VitrualWindSim ruby but without the end switching bits. because I really had a lot to do and the switching ability would speed it up, I stripped out all the rubies from my MacBook and only put what was needed for SB back in.

                  No extra bits, added VWS got all the whistles , but no Bells, so I just thought I'd let you know. I'll grab the Mac console log when I finish up and see if it shows anything.

                  john

                  learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                    Chris Fullmer
                    last edited by 29 Jan 2010, 19:17

                    Very interesting. I'll try to look at the code and see if I can find anything that might conflict. Thanks for the notice,

                    Chris

                    Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                    All my Plugins I've written

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                      driven
                      last edited by 29 Jan 2010, 20:16

                      Chris,

                      Does this help Mac Logs

                      john

                      without VWS log
                      with VWS log
                      with VBS can't get passed this point
                      I can change ends at this stage, on complex models it can take time if you have 4 goes at it
                      result

                      learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                        Comedie
                        last edited by 3 Feb 2010, 00:36

                        rather new to playing with SketchUp. I've been trying to bend a cone to a bezier curve (bezierspline + shape bender). Think .bent fishing rod'. Not being too successful. Might be easier if the straight line choice could be the centerline, but shape bender is looking for an external straight line only?

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                          driven
                          last edited by 3 Feb 2010, 02:10

                          @comedie said:

                          Might be easier if the straight line choice could be the centerline,?

                          Lines can be anywhere you want, but will effect the outcome, because it's a group you can put it's centre on a line, or directly above or below. keep your curve on the same plane as the control line, it's less confusing, even when you get use to it.... This is a sectional view to show you it's symmetrical, just in case...
                          one way

                          learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                            wangkb
                            last edited by 3 Feb 2010, 04:01

                            It is very helpful to make a curcular ramp or staircases...
                            Great plugin.

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                              Comedie
                              last edited by 3 Feb 2010, 16:03

                              @driven said:

                              @comedie said:

                              Might be easier if the straight line choice could be the centerline,?

                              Lines can be anywhere you want, but will effect the outcome, because it's a group you can put it's centre on a line, or directly above or below. keep your curve on the same plane as the control line, it's less confusing, even when you get use to it.... This is a sectional view to show you it's symmetrical, just in case...
                              [attachment=0:7ow9pgot]<!-- ia0 -->ShapeBender.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:7ow9pgot]

                              Not sure why, but after watching the video I had some assumptions in my head for what was required in the setup. Line in conact with the object, and object oriented to the axis. Setup was painful (for me) and the results pretty weird at times.
                              Jettisoned those asusmptions and tried as you showed. Much better. Guess I should have take a step back and thought about the setup. In restrospect I should have remembered orthographic projection I did in a drafting class 25+ years back. Now it makes some sense to me.
                              Thanks!!!!

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                                bobpang725
                                last edited by 3 Feb 2010, 17:12

                                it looks great! thanks! πŸ˜„ πŸ˜„ πŸ˜‰

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                                  Ulsterhound
                                  last edited by 9 Feb 2010, 14:04

                                  Help Please with Shape Bender Issue

                                  This looks like a great plugin but I can't seem to get it to work. I installed ProgressBar.rb and then dropped in all the files for Shape Bender into /Plugin and followed your instructions on how to use it. BUT, with the group selected, and clicking Shape Bender I cannot select the straight or curved lines. The status bar at the bottom does say taht I should "Select a single line that lies on the red axis," but the cursor does not change and I am unable to select anything.

                                  Any help is appreciated,
                                  Ulsterhound

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                                    d12dozr
                                    last edited by 9 Feb 2010, 19:05

                                    Have you watched the videos in this post? http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=147395#p147395 Are you missing any of the steps Chris does?

                                    I just installed and used it last week and it works fine.

                                    Thanks for the great plugin, Chris!

                                    3D Printing with SketchUp Book
                                    http://goo.gl/f7ooYh

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                                      Chris Fullmer
                                      last edited by 9 Feb 2010, 19:11

                                      Notice also that the cursor "hotspot" is really poorly placed. You don't place the tip of the cursor over the line, its just below the tip of the cursor a bit. The line should highlight when you get the cursor positioned correctly.

                                      Chris

                                      Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                                      All my Plugins I've written

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                                        driven
                                        last edited by 9 Feb 2010, 20:51

                                        turn on colour by axis to see if your line is red and also make sure your clicking a 'single' straight line,

                                        I often redraw a fresh line if I can't get it first click,

                                        I am using it on a Mac and only get half the dialogues, but it still works.

                                        learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                                          Ulsterhound
                                          last edited by 10 Feb 2010, 14:30

                                          Thank you everyone, especially Chris.

                                          I had not completely extracted the folder and separate .rb file, instead I had just opened the zip file and dragged them all into the /Plugin folder so it didn't create the shape bender folder.

                                          It works great now. Thank you agian for the help and such a great Plugin.

                                          Ulsternound

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