1001bit Extrude Problems...

Tim Danaher

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...

TIG

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...

pilou

@ 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!

pilou

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!

Tim Danaher

OK, cheers, TIG...

Frenchy... mais j'ai pas de tooltips (sous MacOS X)... pas du tout!

xrok1

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

pilou

@unknownuser said:

extrude tools are all named weird

yes

pilou

@ 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!

TIG

xrok1

don't pretend you didn't know

TIG

The tools
"Extrude"
"Edges"
"by"
"something"

Edges
Face
Faces
Lathe
Loft
Rails
RailsByFace
RailsToLattice
Vector

As 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 vector

How better to describe them ???

Rich O Brien

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

xrok1

@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 vector

i 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.

TIG

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet...

xrok1

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.