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

fredo6 · 26 Jun 2010, 07:24

TIP: COLOR OF THE PREVIEW MESH(SU7 only)

In SU7, the color of the preview mesh may appear in pale gray, so that you do not see well the grid lines. If so,

just turn on and off the Shadows.
This should make the mesh surface black
Normally, you only need to do it once per SU session

Fredo

Note: there is a bug or missing feature in the SU API concerning the drawing of surface in 3D space. There is no control of the color. In SU6, it is always black. In SU7, the color is influenced by the shadow settings and sun shading. This bug / limitation has already signaled to the SU team a while ago. It is ennoying, because it limits teh capacity to develop more interactive plugins (in particular surface nurbs, if ever I engage in this path).

chango70 · 28 Jun 2010, 00:42

SketchyRhino

gophatecture · 29 Jun 2010, 13:50

Awesome work on this plugin!

Is there a way to apply a material with a pattern, so the patterns align. ie the metal panelled exterior of Gehry's Experience Music Project in Seattle.

rachmatrf · 30 Jun 2010, 02:11

@unknownuser said:

Could you open the Ruby console and check if there are some errors reported there.
The situation is rather strange however.
I would suggest you try with the other tools to see if you have something similar. All tools share a large part of the selection processing code, and this would help me to better figure out where this could come from.

Hi Fredo,

At the first, I was thinking that there's something wrong with the copy I got, so I downloaded a fresh new copy and replaced the old one in the plugins directory. But the problem still remains.

As you suggest, I just checked the ruby console and found no error there. I already tried other tools as well, and the selection's just fine. Here I attach the selection using RoundCorner tool (which is another awesome work of yours). I found no problem using this tool. Is it because I am using SU7?

Thank you so much.

Best Regards...

selection using RoundCorner

charly2008 · 30 Jun 2010, 11:13

A SCF crown for all the excellent Ruby programmers. Curviloft opens up new design possibilities.

fredo6 · 30 Jun 2010, 11:59

@charly2008 said:

A SCF crown for all the excellent Ruby programmers. Curviloft opens up new design possibilities.

Charly,

You are rather a magician. I had no idea that the plugin could generate all this marvelous shapes. So I guess that on top of the technical capability of curviloft you have added a lot of artistic sense.

Fredo

charly2008 · 30 Jun 2010, 15:17

Hi Fredo,

Your words make me a little bit proud. That motivates me very much to continue. I am only the craftsmen who tries to find some practical applications for this tool. But i'm Sure also other members will present their ideas in the forum. Below another Example.

Thanks

Fredo

TIG · 30 Jun 2010, 21:33

Karl Hauser

You are a "genius"*** - quite wonderful work - you MUST make a tutorial immediately !!!
***Compared to Fredo that's better than good!

EscapeArtist · 30 Jun 2010, 21:42

1 for the tutorial request.

Wow. That is some delicate looking work. I never would've thought to use this curviloft for something like that.

thomthom · 30 Jun 2010, 21:45

+1

mitcorb · 30 Jun 2010, 23:31

To Fredo6 and testers:
Excellent!

charly2008 · 1 Jul 2010, 17:05

Hi,

thanks for your nice comments. I'm going next week to prepare a small tutorial. The workflow is very simple.

Charly

Pherim · 1 Jul 2010, 19:11

Absolutely great plugin! But it only worked for me after I deleted this plugin: http://www.cerebralmeltdown.com/projects/sunplugin/

This is not very bad as I never used it but I was still surprised about this. Maybe you can find out why this happened. At first, whenever I wanted to use your plugin, Sketchup immediately crashed without any error message whatsoever. Now it works fine, thoug.

fredo6 · 1 Jul 2010, 21:33

@pherim said:

Absolutely great plugin! But it only worked for me after I deleted this plugin: http://www.cerebralmeltdown.com/projects/sunplugin/

This is not very bad as I never used it but I was still surprised about this. Maybe you can find out why this happened. At first, whenever I wanted to use your plugin, Sketchup immediately crashed without any error message whatsoever. Now it works fine, thoug.

This plugin is an example of what should never be done. It replaces methods or add methods to basic Ruby classes String, Float (replaces the Round method) and Numeric. Whatever is the intention, it may end up with conflicts with other plugins, because every script shares the same Ruby environment.
This said, I have no clue why it does make Curviloft crash, because apart from the above, the script is well encapsulated in its own module.

Fredo

thomthom · 2 Jul 2010, 06:14

hm... that is a concern. we should contact the developers.

charly2008 · 2 Jul 2010, 14:18

Hi,

here some variations of rings

d12dozr · 3 Jul 2010, 03:15

Master programmer + master artisan =

Wow, fantastic work Fredo and Charly...tutorial please, Charly?

d12dozr · 3 Jul 2010, 03:17

Excellent Charly, these works really deserve a thread all of their own in the Gallery.

grim · 4 Jul 2010, 03:12

fredo and charly

this tool is fantastic, however after reviewing the examples posted by charly i was eager to try them out for myself but when it came time to try step 3 if found that the curviloft menue did not display the same information nor did the black backround profile menu appear i have sinced removed all rubies and reloaded only the latest from you posting to see if i had installed it incorrectly however i get the same responce

can you enlighten me as to the problem or is there somthing i am over looking

thanks

Jim · 4 Jul 2010, 05:12

I have moved the Curviloft tutorial to the Tutorials Forum - it will hopefully keep both topics more readable.

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=29374