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    [Plugin][$] Curviloft 2.0a - 31 Mar 24 (Loft & Skinning)

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    • B Offline
      Ben Ritter
      last edited by

      Fredo, a most gracious and appreciative "thank you".

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      • cmeedC Offline
        cmeed
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        this is amazing, thank you very much!

        when i saw the preview i wondered if this would be able to handle this dilemma.

        A seat i recently designed needed an end that curved round and formed the back rest. I've just played for 20mins on the beta and i'm struggling. can curviloft help?

        cheers
        chris


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        • D Offline
          Daniel S
          last edited by

          Thank you Fredo!!! 😍 😍 😍

          The loft tool works very well. All seems very user friendly... and that is very difficult in tools like this ones. The use of your hoverselect tool in the manual selection makes it very simple too.

          In the release note you say that there are some limitations and unfinished work.
          Modify vertex matching by selecting a vertex and dragging it to a new position inside the floating palette is a limitation or a unfinished feature?. That would be awesome.

          And is possible to allow SketchUp remember the last position of the floating palette? In the default position I have to move it always because there I have all the SU tools there.

          Captura.JPG
          Daniel S

          PS. Can´t wait for the other tools 🎉 🎉 Hope that you can realease more beta versions before the "official release".

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          • fredo6F Offline
            fredo6
            last edited by

            @cmeed said:

            A seat i recently designed needed an end that curved round and formed the back rest. I've just played for 20mins on the beta and i'm struggling. can curviloft help?

            cheers
            chris

            I think you need to draw first the rails that give the shape of the junction, making sure that each surface would be closed by 4 or 3 curves. Then you can apply the Skinning function.

            Fredo

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            • fredo6F Offline
              fredo6
              last edited by

              @daniel s said:

              In the release note you say that there are some limitations and unfinished work.
              Modify vertex matching by selecting a vertex and dragging it to a new position inside the floating palette is a limitation or a unfinished feature?. That would be awesome.

              This is rather an unfinished feature. Actually, this is why you have a preview zone in the floating palette, because editing on the model, with faces hiding vertices may be less convenient.

              @daniel s said:

              And is possible to allow SketchUp remember the last position of the floating palette? In the default position I have to move it always because there I have all the SU tools there.
              Daniel S

              Also an unfinished feature

              @daniel s said:

              PS. Can´t wait for the other tools 🎉 🎉 Hope that you can realease more beta versions before the "official release".

              The other tools work but may have more issues and unfinished features.

              Fredo

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              • V Offline
                vidy
                last edited by

                Hai Fredo, thanks for this pre release ver, im really excited with this capability, thanks againn 😍

                regards,

                still so much to learn..

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                • cmeedC Offline
                  cmeed
                  last edited by

                  I think you need to draw first the rails that give the shape of the junction, making sure that each surface would be closed by 4 or 3 curves. Then you can apply the Skinning function.

                  Fredo[/quote]

                  Thanks but i couldn't get the rails working with this. I don't understand it completely yet. i need to wait till the documentation comes out as i seem to find myself with alot of colourful lines with 7,8,9 written on them.

                  But on the up side i worked the path method see pics YES!


                  look at me using colour edge plugin!


                  result!!!!

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                  • charly2008C Offline
                    charly2008
                    last edited by

                    This is a new milestone. I find this tool opens up new design possibilities. The loft tool works very well and easy to understand. Especially because the geometry of the forms can be calculated in advance. Thanks for this wonderful tool.

                    The last image below is an almost perfect Moebius band. Unfortunately, the last segment is not closed.


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                    Moebius.JPG


                    Moebius.skp

                    He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                    • TIGT Offline
                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by

                      Fredo

                      This is already too impressive 👊
                      😉

                      TIG

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                      • fredo6F Offline
                        fredo6
                        last edited by

                        Here is the Moebius ribbon with closure
                        Curviloft Moebius.png

                        Fredo


                        Moebius - curviloft.skp

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                          hgdn
                          last edited by

                          Fredo,
                          Great impact for SU users in creating 3d models. With yours I am not afraid of creating 3d models from now on..still new!!! Easy and powerful plugins eventhough you give bug warnings but I have not seen any thing so far!!
                          Genius and generous Fredo 😄

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                            Ruturaj
                            last edited by

                            Thank you Fredo Sir,

                            you are great
                            Many Many Many THANK you.

                            I'm shocked man 😲

                            This plugin is very helpful thank you.
                            😍 👍 😄 😉

                            Thanks,
                            RuturaJ

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                            • TIGT Offline
                              TIG Moderator
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                              @lapx said:

                              I've tried it as well. Thanks Fredo for such a wonderful. Can you get it to maintain a sharp edge? I noticed it round the corners. Would be nice to have this as an option if available.

                              These tools do work very well.... 💚
                              The form is auto-smoothed ? You can always select the resultant group and right-click > soften, and set sliders to 0 and all edges will un-smooth/un-soften etc...
                              or view > hidden_geometry toggle to 'on' and use erase+ctrl+shift to un-soften wiped edges [also remember that erase+ctrl softens wiped edges and erase+shift hides wiped edges - but you must select hidden lines to unhide them using entity info, as there is not erase >> unhide equivalent key-combo...]

                              TIG

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                              • massimoM Offline
                                massimo Moderator
                                last edited by

                                Already a must-have plugin. Thank you Fredo. 👍

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                                • charly2008C Offline
                                  charly2008
                                  last edited by

                                  Some ideas with Grow and Curviloft


                                  Grow.JPG


                                  Untitled.skp

                                  He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                                  • charly2008C Offline
                                    charly2008
                                    last edited by

                                    In some forms it comes to interesting but not unanticipated results.


                                    Unbenannt.JPG

                                    He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                                    • fredo6F Offline
                                      fredo6
                                      last edited by

                                      @charly2008 said:

                                      In some forms it comes to interesting but not unanticipated results.

                                      Charly,

                                      There are still missing features in Loft along Path, in particular about spiral specific treatments.
                                      But if you can post your model, I can have a look and see if this can be handled.

                                      Thanks

                                      Fredo

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                                      • charly2008C Offline
                                        charly2008
                                        last edited by

                                        Hi Fredo,

                                        attached you wil have a similar model because the first one i have deleted. I selected each segment separately. Thanks again for your plugin, thanks for your efforts.

                                        Karl (Charly)


                                        Unbenannt.JPG


                                        Test1.zip

                                        He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                                        • charly2008C Offline
                                          charly2008
                                          last edited by

                                          The same shape with small modifications


                                          Unbenannt.JPG

                                          He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                                          • L Offline
                                            lapx
                                            last edited by

                                            Thanks Tig! I'll try it out 🎉

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