1001bit Extrude Problems...
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Done.
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You can do it several other ways...
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Thanks, TIG... I can do it with FollowMe and FMAK... the specific question was why 1001bit can't do it.
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FollowMe and FMAK both require the face squarely on the end of the path - 1001-extrude and EEbyFace do not - also EEbyFace works on several unconnected or branching paths - unlike FollowMe etc...
I don't know 1001-extrude - I think it can work with a 'flat' face and place it to suit - have you tried welding the edges into a curve as the path ?
Incidentally my PipeAlongPath or TubeAlongPath scripts would also give you a similar result... -
i found the 1001bit tools guy doesn't give much support.
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Seems 1001 tools is not appropriated for the Breuer path!
There are "torsions" inside!
It's specifed on the icone tooltip 'without torsion'
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This is becoming a 'mare...
All I want is a robust, no-hassle extrude-along-path solution for my students... FMAK works, but doesn't smooth the resulting extrusion and 1001bit...
TIG, will try your suggestions... how do I weld the path? Is that a plug-in?
Frenchy... when you say 'torsions'... Have I drawn the various curves in different directions? (Tooltips? I don't got no stinkin' tooltips...)
xrok... indeed...
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My Extrusion Tool set is perhaps too complex for this - find my 'PipeAlongPath.rb' [crai etc] and use that - you don't need a 'welded' path for that tool - just continuous edges/arcs selected - it will make a smooth welded path for you.
I can't believe you survive without 'weld.rb' - get it free from 'Smustard' - select any joined up lines/arcs etc and it makes a polyline curve from them - useful for many of my Extrusion tools that need you to select curves, and also generally making polylines etc for extruding smoothly...
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@ TIM : This is more clear?
Sorry it's in French, but your tooltip is in English
I suppose "no torsion" is meaning without direction changment between different plans
PS I can't believe that you don't know the Plug Weld
Use SU without Plugs is today a sort of task!
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And another thing : calculate of the object result can take some time : so be patient!
You can make your Breuer chair with this 1001 function but you must make it in several part!
So I believe that is not the good function for that!
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OK, cheers, TIG...
Frenchy... mais j'ai pas de tooltips (sous MacOS X)... pas du tout!
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i tried it by welding the path first, doesn't work!
@unknownuser said:
All I want is a robust, no-hassle extrude-along-path solution for my students...
i think tig's extrude edges by face will be hard to beat. (even though his extrude tools are all named weird
) should be extrude face along edge... but we can live with it cause they're so damn great! 
i usually spend more time trying to figure out the code of what each name means than using the tool
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@ Tim
You see that the calculate is beginning when you can't move the blue cross with the mouse after the click on the beginning curve!That is not a "torsion" here
PS Sorry I have not MAC and absolut know how it works
But you must have the Help line!
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don't pretend you didn't know
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The tools
"Extrude"
"Edges"
"by"
"something"Edges
Face
Faces
Lathe
Loft
Rails
RailsByFace
RailsToLattice
VectorAs they are a 'set' I have kept the naming quite consistent...
An 'Edge' is a 'Line' in SUp-speak
I know that often these tools need 'Curves', but then these are made from 'Edges'...
The first combines edges with edges
The next extrudes a face along edges
The next uses faces as the basis of the extrusion
The next 'lathes' the edges' curve
The next 'lofts' the edge-sets' curves
The next uses 2/3/4 edge curves as profiles/rails
The next extrudes a face along ditto
The next makes a lattice using ditto
The next extrudes the edges along a vectorHow better to describe them ???
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They make perfect sense to me!
For example, i wish I had a plugin which would allow me to extrude an edge rather than a face along a curved rail. Now that'd be cool!
A sort of Extrude Edge by Rail tool! Hey I could even chose to extrude faces too? Or maybe a lathe like action around an axis?
Damn that'd cool
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@unknownuser said:
An 'Edge' is a 'Line' in SUp-speak
I know that often these tools need 'Curves', but then these are made from 'Edges'...
The first combines edges with edges
The next extrudes a face along edges
The next uses faces as the basis of the extrusion
The next 'lathes' the edges' curve
The next 'lofts' the edge-sets' curves
The next uses 2/3/4 edge curves as profiles/rails
The next extrudes a face along replace ditto profiles/rails
The next makes a lattice using replace ditto profiles/rails
The next extrudes the edges along a vectori think you answered your own question. i think maybe its the word by or something in all the names i'm not sure but it just always makes me pause and wonder WTF it does. i think your above discriptions would make much better names.
but its only my opinion and i by no means disrespect you or your abilities to please us all with your work. -
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet...
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