[Plugin] Extrude Edges by Face

TIG

Yes it can.
Make sure the two Profiles' edges - the circle and the square [welded] - are both Curves.
Make the Rail a Curve too - even if it's only one segment long !
Pick Rail-1 and re-pick it as Rail-2 when prompted...

xrok1

@xrok1 said:

here's what i get:

????

DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ

@tig said:

Yes it can.
Make sure the two Profiles' edges - the circle and the square [welded] - are both Curves.
Make the Rail a Curve too - even if it's only one segment long !
Pick Rail-1 and re-pick it as Rail-2 when prompted...

you say use the extrude edgesbayrailes plugins?

my question is can you do with your extrude edges by face.
that automatically positions the face about the curve

the idea is that works like this plugins
http://www.drawmetal.com/tapermaker

is it possible?

TIG

It's the Extrude Edges By Rails **By Face** plugin that does this.
That works very similarly to EEbyRails BUT it makes the ribs from a preselected face - like the individual 'rib' made with EEbyFace..............

DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ

tig apologize. not understand well what you say.
My idea was that the plugins Extrude Edges by Face, work with both sides and a rail.

like the example attached. ( picture + file )

Operating:

select two sides + a curved edge
run the plugins
generates geometria

this is possible?

Sin título.skp

pilou

@unknownuser said:

this is possible?

2 faces + path by Kirill2008

TIG

OK you can already do this with EEbyRails IF the edges of the two faces are Curves and you make the 'path' curve as the two Rails...
You want a tool Extrude Face to Face By Rails ?
You pick Face1 then Face2 then Rail1 and Rail2 [or Rail1 again].
It'd work just like EEbyRails but the Profile and the Melding-Profile are made from the edges forming the two faces' outer_loop...
I'll think about it but I think it's been done

DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ

if Tig. It has done something similar.
2 faces + path but it can do, but is more complex.

other plugins that generates something like this is tapermaker. but is limited
only use preset faces in a dialog box

but

Extrude Edges by Face is fantastic plugins. is simple and fast

TIG

See here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=226249#p226249 for Extrude Edges by Faces...

TIG

Tool has been updated
1.4 20100220 Glitch on some text in db fixed.
1.5 20100220 Glitch with number of Rail-Ribs fixed.
Color coding of picked curves added.
Profile=Cyan
Rail1=Magenta
Rail2=DarkVioletRed
MeldingProfile=DarkCyan
FaceEdges=Orange
See here for download link http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=224218#p224218

chrisjk

TIG, there now seems to be a problem with your latest EEBRF:-

so far so good..

It just stops working here after clicking OK.

pilou

Are you sure?
Just wait end calculation ?
Do you see something bottom screen left corner screen line help?

chrisjk

Frenchy,

I am sure. I replaced the latest version with a version from 18 Feb and that works fine. Changing the older one out for the newer again and it still hangs at the same point.

I am on a Mac - maybe there's a difference?

TIG

There are two tools EEbyFace and EEbyRailsByFace - you are jumbling the threads.
EEbyFace - you pre-pick a Face and a path of Edges and run the tool there are no prompts to pick curves etc
EEbyRailsbyFaces
Pre-pick the ProfileFace

you run the tool
Pick the profiles as with EEbyRails...

BUT it shouldn't dump out like that.
I have tried to replicate this and got it too...

I have a fix - publishing it soonest...

chrisjk

TIG,
True, I was jumbling the threads, I got confused here :-
Screen shot 2010-02-20 at 19.26.48.png

Face - Faces..

and went on to see which of the plugins was actually giving me colours and got hung up on EEBRF. A different naming scheme would make it easier for us mortals! After all, EEBRBF extrudes a selected face along chosen edges, so something like "ExtrudeaFacebyRails" could help differentiate it better.

TIG

I puzzled long about the names
I have a fix for that glitch but it's made another - offsetting the colored lines !
I'll fix it tomorrow...

pilou

about a quarter circle
there is a divergence: I understant that is perpendicular to the last segment,
but it is annoying for make a perfect quarter volume!

TIG

EEbyFace is a kind of 'FollowMe' and you will get un-square ends - use EEbyLathe to be perfect solid by revolution - simply select the face+edges and an axis centered on the arcs cpt...

magnato

Is there a plugin that can delete all the faces in a structure, leaving it with only the edges? I would like to use the nice Extrude Edges by Face plugin to create a typical steel-like structure.

Magnar

I would like to make a structure with steel beams

TIG

To add/remove things to/from a selection there are several tools [e.g. see thomthom's selection_toys script]...
Here's a one liner that takes a selection [it assumes faces and edges are selected, and leaves only faces in the selection - hit delete key to erase faces...]

m=Sketchup.active_model;s=m.selection;sa=s.to_a;s.clear;sa.each{|e|s.add(e)if e.class==Sketchup;;Face}

Paste it into the Ruby Console and hit return...
To make a function wrap it in a 'def' thus:

def isolatefaces()
  m = Sketchup.active_model
  s = m.selection
  sa = s.to_a
  s.clear
  sa.each{|e|
    s.add(e) if e.class == Sketchup;;Face
  }
end#def

ans save it in a plain text file called isolatefaces.rb in the ../Plugins/ folder.
To run it first select somethings, including faces, and type isolatefaces in the Ruby Console - out of the original selection just the faces are now selected - to erase them press the delete key...