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    • TIGT Offline
      TIG Moderator
      last edited by

      @rv1974 said:

      Super! Thank you TIG so much!
      Though it skips segments in the very first try.

      Without the skp to try I'm unsure what's up...
      Are the curves continuous - it would help it they had the same number of segments [although that IS meant to be coped with].
      Can you post [or PM me] a skp displaying this glitch ?
      😕

      TIG

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      • N Offline
        notareal
        last edited by

        Nice work. Thanks!

        Welcome to try [Thea Render](http://www.thearender.com/), Thea support | [kerkythea.net](http://www.kerkythea.net/) -team member

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        • erikBE Offline
          erikB
          last edited by

          Yet another, but very helpfull, extension of the (extrude) set.
          Thanks very much TIG 👍
          erikB

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          • R Offline
            rv1974
            last edited by

            @tig said:

            @rv1974 said:

            Super! Thank you TIG so much!
            Though it skips segments in the very first try.

            Without the skp to try I'm unsure what's up...
            Are the curves continuous - it would help it they had the same number of segments [although that IS meant to be coped with].
            Can you post [or PM me] a skp displaying this glitch ?
            😕


            loft.skp

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            • TIGT Offline
              TIG Moderator
              last edited by

              I've tested your skp and I agree that the tool has a glitch - for some reason it's missing out a part of the mesh in the latter/earlier stages - the two versions I first illustrate below are by picking the curves in their reverse order - different bits get missed out...
              The original has curves with varying edge counts...
              In the 'copy' I edited the curves so each has 12 edges [or 24 for the S one] - to make them readily sub-dividable - now it works fine - so it must be a bug in the re-division of the edges to try and get them to match each other - also used in EEbyRails incidentally
              I'll debug and get back to you...
              In the meanwhile please use curves with more closely related edge counts - they will work... any number SHOULD work...
              😒loftRAB-NETTO.pngloftRAB-NETTO - Copy.png

              TIG

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              • TIGT Offline
                TIG Moderator
                last edited by

                I see that the problem is that the 6-segment zigzag is being divided into pieces of four to match the 24-segment S-curve BUT at one point it's becoming 1 piece short [3] and at another one too many [5] so that the 'apportionment' of the edges goes wrong and it fails - so at least I have the effect... but now to find the cause 😒

                TIG

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                • mitcorbM Offline
                  mitcorb
                  last edited by

                  And what logically follows in the ExtrudeTools collection?
                  It was inevitable. Thank you, TIG

                  I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                  • mitcorbM Offline
                    mitcorb
                    last edited by

                    TIG:
                    What would it take to make the resultant mesh into a Bezier mesh? Or am I talking about another tool?
                    In other words after generating the mesh, you could modify it by Bezier control points that would allow you to pull and stretch the mesh like a rubber sheet, and even unfold some unwanted contortions.

                    I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                    • TIGT Offline
                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by

                      Thomthom is working on a Vertex-Editor. which I think would become the basis of this editing tool ?

                      TIG

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                      • P Offline
                        Panga
                        last edited by

                        Thanks a lot TIG for this one !!

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                        • TIGT Offline
                          TIG Moderator
                          last edited by

                          There's an update of EEbyLoft - see the notes here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=231016#p231016

                          Get the tool in the zipped set from here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=217663#p217663

                          TIG

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                          • EarthMoverE Offline
                            EarthMover
                            last edited by

                            UNREAL!!!!!! You are the man TIG!!!! 👍 👍

                            I'm starting really wish you would take these algorithms and write a new plugin to handle making terrains similar to "From Contours" but without the rats nest of a mesh the native tool creates. Your meshes are so smooth. Google needs you on staff immediately with a nice fat salary so you can code to your hearts content!

                            3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
                            Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
                            Content Creator at Skapeup

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                            • C Offline
                              chrisjk
                              last edited by

                              I don't know if this is another Mac peculiarity but I get very strange results. From three circles (two copies plus an original), when I would expect a cylinder to result, I get this:-

                              Screen shot 2010-03-10 at 16.11.24.png

                              I attach the skp file just in case there is something weird lurking in it.


                              Twisted.skp

                              Chris

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                              • MALAISEM Offline
                                MALAISE
                                last edited by

                                TIG's plugin's , what else ???? 😄

                                MALAISE

                                La Connaissance n'a de valeur que partagée

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                                • TIGT Offline
                                  TIG Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  Twisted.png

                                  TIG

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                                  • D Offline
                                    dedmin
                                    last edited by

                                    😮 😮 ❓

                                    Clipboard-1.jpg

                                    Erased the copies and made the new ones

                                    Clipboard-3.jpg

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                                    • C Offline
                                      chrisjk
                                      last edited by

                                      Fantastic! TIG, thank you very much indeed for these great plugins.

                                      Chris

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                                      • A Offline
                                        altap
                                        last edited by

                                        😲 This is really GREAT TIG... and BTW, I want to thank every ruby scripts developpers here again, you're making people happy 👍 .

                                        On another side while it may be irrelevant in sketchup ?! , what if it was a live loft sort of modifing the profiles( on which the loft volume is created ) and sketchup regenerate automatically the lofted volume. maybe it is too much asked as i'm already very glad to have a loft tool in Sketchup

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                                          DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ
                                          last edited by

                                          thanks tig. excellent plugins. actually this set of tools for extrusion is increasingly complete. and further expand the potential of modeling sketchup.

                                          a small observation.

                                          http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/3393/loft.jpg

                                          when you select a curve, changes color.
                                          but generates a rare color "Dashedlines" between blue and another color

                                          a question
                                          You can set the number of Segments per Section: independently?
                                          or number of Segments per Section: General.
                                          osea
                                          number of segments between the first and last section selected

                                          Spanish translation:
                                          Small Correction


                                          extrudeEdgesByLoftES.rar

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                                          • TIGT Offline
                                            TIG Moderator
                                            last edited by

                                            The color 'dashing' is interference between the drawn color and the model's edges - it's pretty much unavoidable - the coloring is only intended to help you remember which curves you you have picked in what order - as ROYGBIV are the rainbow's colors...

                                            You can't currently have different segment-numbers in each section, it's based on the one value you give [which initially defaults as the most segmented curve's edge-count]...
                                            It would be possible to have varying segment counts - I suppose that the dialog could have a section-number entry for each segment defaulting to the maximum number of edges in the pair of curves bounding that section of mesh ? OR it could be a maximum count apportioned across the mesh based on some other factor like the numbers of edges in the curve-pairs...

                                            If users would like that I can come up with something ?
                                            Feedback first please...

                                            Thanks, I'll look at your ES lingvo for a future update...
                                            🤓

                                            TIG

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