1001bit Extrude Problems...
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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... -
TIG, thank god for the toolbar with the little pictures or i'd be totally lost.
@unknownuser said:
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!
you can! use extrude edges by rails. pick the edge then the same rail twice, then the same edge again!
or extrude edges by edges.
but if you understood the naming you'd know that. -
You saved me some clicks Rocky, but it looks like i fall into the third class
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