[Plugin] Extrude Edges by Loft

TIG

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 - Copy.png

TIG

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

mitcorb

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

mitcorb

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.

TIG

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

Panga

Thanks a lot TIG for this one !!

TIG

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

EarthMover

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!

chrisjk

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

MALAISE

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

MALAISE

TIG

dedmin

Erased the copies and made the new ones

chrisjk

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

altap

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

DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ

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.

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

TIG

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...