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

[charly2008]

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.

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[thomthom]

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

[TIG]

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 !
curviloft5.skp

[massimo]

Charly, try like this:
-Select, lets say, four profiles. Explode them and press the loft button;

-Do the same with other four and so on;
-Select the two profiles on the ends of two stumps and press loft. Do that for all the stumps;

-Delete the unwanted original profiles.
That's all.

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curviloft5-2_street.skp

[charly2008]

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

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curviloft5.skp

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[mitcorb]

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?

[charly2008]

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

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[fredo6]

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

[fredo6]

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.

Fredo

[dylan]

Thanks Fredo

[charly2008]

thanks Fredo,

you are great.

Charly

[xrok1]

[Daniel S]

Great update Fredo! Very powerful!!

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

[fredo6]

@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

[DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ]

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

[fredo6]

@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

[cam youds]

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?????????????????????????????????????????????????

[fredo6]

@cam youds said:

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?????????????????????????????????????????????????

It may be that your system folder is protected by some security rules preventing to create folders there by program.
So just create the folder DEFPARAM_Dir manually in the directory: /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/Plugins and this should work.

Fredo

[cam youds]

It works....Life changing!...no more rhino or soild works!!!!!!

[DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ]

frequently, I have a little problem.
does not generate the geometry.

if I open the ruby console and run the plugins. Sketchup is labeled.
and generate this error:

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skin test.skp