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  • T Offline
    TIG Moderator
    last edited by 9 Jul 2010, 13:16

    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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      massimo Moderator
      last edited by 9 Jul 2010, 13:28

      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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        charly2008
        last edited by 9 Jul 2010, 13:39

        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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          mitcorb
          last edited by 9 Jul 2010, 14:21

          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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            charly2008
            last edited by 9 Jul 2010, 16:10

            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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            • F Offline
              fredo6
              last edited by 11 Jul 2010, 08:52

              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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              • F Offline
                fredo6
                last edited by 11 Jul 2010, 09:36

                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 11 Jul 2010, 10:17

                  Thanks Fredo 👍

                  http://dmdarchitecture.co.uk/

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                  • C Offline
                    charly2008
                    last edited by 11 Jul 2010, 10:51

                    thanks Fredo,

                    you are great.

                    Charly

                    He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                      xrok1
                      last edited by 11 Jul 2010, 18:55

                      😲 😍

                      “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 11 Jul 2010, 20:10

                        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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                          fredo6
                          last edited by 11 Jul 2010, 20:37

                          @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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                            DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ
                            last edited by 11 Jul 2010, 21:46

                            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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                              fredo6
                              last edited by 12 Jul 2010, 06:21

                              @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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                                cam youds
                                last edited by 14 Jul 2010, 06:50

                                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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                                  fredo6
                                  last edited by 14 Jul 2010, 07:20

                                  @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

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                                    cam youds
                                    last edited by 14 Jul 2010, 09:44

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

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                                    • D Offline
                                      DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ
                                      last edited by 15 Jul 2010, 03:59

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

                                      http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/2872/86299088.gif

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

                                      http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6030/sinttulo1yj.jpg


                                      skin test.skp

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                                        fredo6
                                        last edited by 15 Jul 2010, 06:20

                                        @diego-rodriguez said:

                                        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:

                                        Diego,

                                        The two shapes in your attached file work fine by pre-selecting all contours.
                                        But I did not find the small shapes where you seem to have troubles (the one with color edges on your picture).

                                        For the warning in the Ruby console, do not worry. This is harmless and I have already fixed it for the next release.

                                        fredo

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                                          DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ
                                          last edited by 18 Jul 2010, 17:41

                                          hi fredo.
                                          thanks for your response.
                                          already solved the problem.
                                          Reinstall sketchup, in another partition of my hard disk and found that the problem is a file called MSVCRT-ruby18.dll

                                          upload the file.

                                          file size 853kb not works
                                          file size 792kb works


                                          file.rar

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