[Plugin] Extrude Edges by Rails

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] ?

mitcorb · 15 Jan 2010, 12:18

Could this condition be related to another author's plugin that somehow preconditions the session? Or is this just farfetched?

TIG · 15 Jan 2010, 12:47

@mitcorb said:

Could this condition be related to another author's plugin that somehow preconditions the session? Or is this just farfetched?

Thanks for the idea, but I don't think it's a clash - EEbyRails has no 'global variables' etc...

thomthom · 15 Jan 2010, 12:55

Could it be some plugin modifying one of the base classes..?

cmoreink · 15 Jan 2010, 16:33

I'll be waiting for a new updated version, till then I'll work on trying to figure out what is the problem.

layyhkl · 18 Jan 2010, 22:00

thank

Jim · 18 Jan 2010, 22:11

Hi TIG, FYI.

extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;161; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;164; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;172; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;210; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;220; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;230; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;243; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;245; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;626; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;628; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;663; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;669; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;689; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;708; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;710; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;736; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version

TIG · 18 Jan 2010, 22:53

@jim said:

Hi TIG, FYI.

extrudeEdgesByRails.rb;161; warning; parenthesize argument(s) for future version
> etc

Thanks
It's already fixed in new versions... out soon
x=db"text"
becomes
x=(db("text"))
etc...

TIG · 19 Jan 2010, 16:30

Here's v2.2 with various minor glitch fixes and a new combined Toolbar with other Extrusion Tools...
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=201286#p201286

driven · 19 Jan 2010, 17:50

hi TIG,

thanks again,

EEbyR and EEbyV don't work out of the plugins menu, but do from toolbar buttons

EEbyR's toobar image is blank once EEbyV is loaded, but both work

EEbyV looks really useful, but what is 'extrude by sweep' mentioned in the ruby text?

john
EDIT just combined the the 3 Tig folder's and I have all three working icon/buttons, but still no functionality from plugin folder, so can I just comment them out of there.