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    • charly2008C Offline
      charly2008
      last edited by

      Hi,

      I tried with Curviloft the to make the ornaments in this historic door . But it does not look good. I have to try other shapes. In the rendered image it looks like a Crab.


      Portal 1.JPG


      Portal.jpg

      He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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      • N Offline
        notareal
        last edited by

        @unknownuser said:

        @thomthom said:

        I've yet to try out this plugin for myself - but is there a linear option as well? Or is it just beziers? It seems to be that the pencil would require a linear morphing to get the shape of the tip.

        The Linear option will be available in the next release (along with other spline methods). I came to that conclusion too.
        [attachment=0:12mbvobp]<!-- ia0 -->Pencil for Loft - Daniel S - linear.gif<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:12mbvobp]
        Fredo

        You cannot stop amaze! This already is a true gem. Wonder to what it will grow...

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        • D Offline
          Daniel S
          last edited by

          I just see:

          http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=29374#p256698

          And made me wonder... would be possible something like this?
          strangeloft.jpg
          Daniel S

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          • charly2008C Offline
            charly2008
            last edited by

            I have further experimented with Curivloft. But for those stone sculptures, it seems to be less suitable. The current forms I have generated by the standard tools, the Freehand tool, Push Pull and Subdivide and Smooth.


            Portal.jpg


            Portal1.png

            He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
              last edited by

              Notice that the numbers for each profile alternates throughout your pre-selecting.

              Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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              • TIGT Online
                TIG Moderator
                last edited by

                I would think Fredo's tool superior to my EEbyLoft... BUT mine works with some componentizing and exploding etc !
                Fredo, please borrow whatever ideas work in my tool for yours !
                Capture.PNGcurviloft5.skp

                TIG

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                • massimoM Offline
                  massimo Moderator
                  last edited by

                  Charly, try like this:
                  -Select, lets say, four profiles. Explode them and press the loft button;
                  Cattura_1.JPG
                  -Do the same with other four and so on;Cattura_2.JPG
                  -Select the two profiles on the ends of two stumps and press loft. Do that for all the stumps;
                  Cattura_3.JPGCattura_4.JPG
                  -Delete the unwanted original profiles.
                  That's all. 😉Cattura.JPG


                  curviloft5-2_street.skp

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                  • charly2008C Offline
                    charly2008
                    last edited by

                    Hi,

                    In this design I get some errors. The idea was to create a road profile. I have selected the faces one by one. Maybe Fredo can find the error. Even in a straight line this error will appear.

                    Charly


                    Curve1.JPG


                    Curve2.JPG


                    curviloft5.skp


                    Curve1.JPG


                    Curve2.JPG

                    He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                    • mitcorbM Offline
                      mitcorb
                      last edited by

                      In Fredo6's discussion in the first post, I saw something that suggested to leave open a tiny segment in the profile to be lofted. Perhaps to prevent the twisting?

                      I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                      • charly2008C Offline
                        charly2008
                        last edited by

                        Dear TIG and Massimo,

                        thank you for your advices. The background for my experiments with a winding road is the representation of the curve slope.

                        With EEbyLoft I have also tried. TIG, your EEbyL is also a great tool. I would not belittle your merits. But in this case it is difficult to find the correct level for the protractor because the Edges. With Curviloft i can use faces and I can change the faces more simple(made by Perpendiculare Faces) gradually at an specified angle and can construct the slope. And this worked in my first attempt (see pictures below).

                        You may have seen my posts with winding Roads in the forum. The disadvantage of these Roads was, that the road profile was shown only horizontal in the curves.

                        Charly


                        Curve1.JPG


                        Curve2.JPG

                        He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                        • fredo6F Offline
                          fredo6
                          last edited by

                          NEW BETA RELEASE

                          Curviloft 1.0b – LibFredo6 3.5b – 11 Jul 10: Second beta version, dedicated to Loft by Spline and Skinning (Loft Along Path is still not fully functional). Main changes are:

                          • Skinning should better accept preselection of contours and make its way to create the mesh

                          • Added some spline methods (Linear, Ortho-elliptic and ortho-spline)

                          • For Skinning and Loft Along Path, you can over-sample the rails

                          • For Skinning, you can swap the direction between contours and rails

                          • Preview Mesh is normally black in SU7

                          • Floating palette remembers its position across SU sessions

                          • Spanish translation by Defisto
                            On top of potential bugs and geometry issues (including bugsplats), there are some limitations and unfinished work

                          • VCB is not active

                          • No interactive edition in the floating palette

                          • B-Spline and F-Spline do not close nicely in loop mode

                          • No later reedition of shape generated (this will come)

                          • all texts and labels are not reviewed yet

                          see main post for download:http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=28586#p248195

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                          • fredo6F Offline
                            fredo6
                            last edited by

                            Charly,

                            Thanks very much for your deep testing of Curviloft. It helps me find and hopefully fix the many bugs and imprecisions remaining in the script. This is why I judged that I had to go through a long beta phase with the users.

                            For the long and winding roads, I have found the issues and they should be adressed in the next release 1.0b.
                            Winding road.gif

                            Fredo

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                              dylan
                              last edited by

                              Thanks Fredo 👍

                              http://dmdarchitecture.co.uk/

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                              • charly2008C Offline
                                charly2008
                                last edited by

                                thanks Fredo,

                                you are great.

                                Charly

                                He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                                  xrok1
                                  last edited by

                                  😲 😍

                                  “There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”

                                  http://www.Twilightrender.com try it!

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                                  • D Offline
                                    Daniel S
                                    last edited by

                                    Great update Fredo! Very powerful!!

                                    test.gif

                                    If you select all and then apply skin there are still issues with this type of geometry:
                                    skin not work right.skp
                                    Daniel S

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                                    • fredo6F Offline
                                      fredo6
                                      last edited by

                                      @daniel s said:

                                      If you select all and then apply skin there are still issues with this type of geometry:
                                      Daniel S

                                      Daniel,

                                      Thanks for this contribution. There are issues, for sure. I will have a close look.

                                      In the meantime, it is recommended to use the method of explicitly putting small segments to indicate where to cut cell contours.

                                      Fredo

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                                      • D Offline
                                        DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ
                                        last edited by

                                        hi fredo.
                                        ruby console, a new error:

                                        D:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LIBFREDO6_Dir_35/Lib6EdgePicker.rb:2166: warning: Object#id will be deprecated; use Object#object_id

                                        Could you fix it.
                                        I´m use:
                                        windows xpSp3 Spanish
                                        sketchup last version in Spanish

                                        thank you very much

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                                        • fredo6F Offline
                                          fredo6
                                          last edited by

                                          @diego-rodriguez said:

                                          hi fredo.
                                          ruby console, a new error:

                                          D:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LIBFREDO6_Dir_35/Lib6EdgePicker.rb:2166: warning: Object#id will be deprecated; use Object#object_id

                                          Could you fix it.

                                          It is just a warning, but I'll fix it for the next release

                                          Fredo

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                                          • C Offline
                                            cam youds
                                            last edited by

                                            I must be slow in the head but I keep getting this msg

                                            Cannot load plugin Curviloft because the script cannot create DEFPARAM_Dir folder in:
                                            /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins

                                            Please create it manually, respecting the case

                                            What am I doing wrong?????????????????????????????????????????????????

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