[Plugin][$] RoundCorner - v3.4a - 31 Mar 24

fredo6 · 6 Jun 2010, 12:53

Hi,

first of all, great plugin
but i was wondering wheter it would be possible to precise the corner that needs to be rounded by giving in the radius (similar to the 'fillet' tool in autocad?)

kind regards,

thomas

Do you have any illustration of this function or link of the Autocad fillet so that I see if this can be added?

Fredo

thomadeg · 6 Jun 2010, 18:50

@unknownuser said:

@thomadeg said:

Hi,

thomas

Do you have any illustration of this function or link of the Autocad fillet so that I see if this can be added?

Fredo

Hi Fredo,

I attached two drawings; one 2D in autocad using the fillet tool (which is the same as drawing a circle so that it is tangent on both sides and the other is a test in sketchup of the 2D using the roundcorner tool.

when the corner that needs to be rounded is a 90° corner there is no difference but when the corner is not at 90° autocad (with circle tangent to both sides) does not match with the roundcorner tool.

I only asked this because i wondered whether next to the original way you designed the tool it would be possible to have an option to give in the Radius instead of distance as it is now. I use a lot of autocad drawins as an underlay for my sketchup models and saw that it did not match but maybe i overlooked something or am completely wrong here.

i hope this illustrates what i mean?

kind regards,

thomas

roundcorner_radius_2D.pdf

roundcorner_radius_3D.pdf

blweeks · 12 Jun 2010, 00:58

I must be missing a step. I have LibFredo6 3.4 downloaded and extracted, but I do not see the Fredo menu item under Sketchup/Windows. Similarly downloaded and extracted Roundcorner v2.1c. Still nothing in Sketchup.

Any help would be appreciated

Brian

Headroom · 2 Jul 2010, 22:30

Hi Fredo,

First of all Thanks! for this plugin. Works very nicely on the mobile CAD workstation at Work (2.9 Ghz Core2Duo).

However after installing it on my iMac (2.4 Ghz Core2Duo 4GB of RAM), when using it, it reacts extremely slow (Sketchup 7.1) to the point of being unusable. It does create the geometry but, again, when clicking on any of the plugin's UI elements it takes several seconds to result in a response.

Any ideas what the reasons may be for it ?

fredo6 · 3 Jul 2010, 05:09

@headroom said:

Hi Fredo,

First of all Thanks! for this plugin. Works very nicely on the mobile CAD workstation at Work (2.9 Ghz Core2Duo).

However after installing it on my iMac (2.4 Ghz Core2Duo 4GB of RAM), when using it, it reacts extremely slow (Sketchup 7.1) to the point of being unusable. It does create the geometry but, again, when clicking on any of the plugin's UI elements it takes several seconds to result in a response.

Any ideas what the reasons may be for it ?

Is it specific to a model, or do you get the same slow behavior even with an empty model (say just a cube)?

When you mouse over the buttons (not clicking), do you see the buttons react (i.e. highlight) ?

Fredo

lentakffm · 8 Jul 2010, 15:38

hi fredo,

just want to pay my respect for all your work and sharing.

tomas

Headroom · 10 Jul 2010, 13:03

Fredo,

I get the sluggish behavior even with a simple cube. I see the buttons respond but have to be very slow with the mouse. I also see the Spinning Ball quite often.

I came across a thread here a Sketchucation and it appears this may be a Sketchup 7.1 Mac only problem as several users have complained about the generally sluggish behavior of Sketchup 7. I tested Roundcorner with Sketchup 7.1 in VMware Fusion on my iMac on a Win Vista installation and it works fine.

I hope Google fixes this Mac related Sketchup performance problem soon!

I own a Indigo license (http://www.indigorenderer.com) and the SkIndigo exporter, another Sketchup plugin, works fine on my iMac.

qiqi · 11 Jul 2010, 16:20

may i know how and where to download the file?
Tq

Rich O Brien · 11 Jul 2010, 18:59

1st post of this thread has the download and documentation

fredo6 · 11 Jul 2010, 20:26

@headroom said:

I get the sluggish behavior even with a simple cube. I see the buttons respond but have to be very slow with the mouse. I also see the Spinning Ball quite often.

Any other Mac users with this performance problem?

Headroom (Peter): do you have the same problem with other plugins, like FredoScale or ToolsOnSurface?

Fredo

Headroom · 11 Jul 2010, 23:31

Fredo,

I just downloaded Joint Push-Pull and Tools on Surface and both are very responsive (in OSX) and I don't experience the sluggishness I encounter when working with RoundCorner.

BTW. What awesome tools you have created here. Until now my main workhorse has been Blender (http://www.blender.org). Now with Sketchup and these powerful plugins that you have created I have another powerful tool.

Thanks!!!

inasia · 14 Jul 2010, 10:32

Hi Fredo,

Good Evening and a huge thank you for the round edge plugin.....indeed it is a very useful excellent tool.

Thank you again

Have a good day.

inasia

thomthom · 20 Jul 2010, 22:37

Hi Fredo
Have you seen this SketchUp blog post? http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2010/07/take-edge-off-roundcorners.html
You've been featured - very nice article with lots of great action screenshots!

fredo6 · 22 Jul 2010, 20:42

@thomthom said:

Hi Fredo
Have you seen this SketchUp blog post? http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2010/07/take-edge-off-roundcorners.html
You've been featured - very nice article with lots of great action screenshots!

Very good tutorial by Aidan.
This proves that the users of scripts are the best to explain what a script can be used for!

Fredo

Jim · 6 Aug 2010, 20:08

It seems like some modules are still being defined even when the extension is disabled.

RoundCorner, for example exists even if the plugin is disabled in the Extensions list.

fredo6 · 6 Aug 2010, 21:26

@jim said:

It seems like some modules are still being defined even when the extension is disabled.

RoundCorner, for example exists even if the plugin is disabled in the Extensions list.

Correct, but the module is almost empty. No code is loaded actually.

Fredo

Jim · 7 Aug 2010, 13:00

@unknownuser said:

Correct, but the module is almost empty. No code is loaded actually.

Fredo

I was looking for a method to tell me if the Toolbar was available. I tried
defined?(RoundCorner) which is defined even if the extension is disabled.

andretbms · 13 Aug 2010, 05:56

Hello. Is it only me or the link that leads to the LibFredo6 3.3a post is broken? I can't get it opened here, forum gets an error.

Thank you

Daniel S · 14 Aug 2010, 02:35

@andretbms said:

Hello. Is it only me or the link that leads to the LibFredo6 3.3a post is broken? I can't get it opened here, forum gets an error.

Thank you

andretbms is right. If you go to the main post:

It says http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=17947#p144178
If you click in the link:

It should be changed for the correct link:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=17947#p144178

In hoverselect (http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=18916)
there is also the same problem:

I didn´t try with the other Fredo plugins... but perhaps the link problem is on every post.
Fredo or some moderator can change the links?

Since nobody mention this problem before... perhaps is because in the last SFC 5 minutes URL change(http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=29947), somebody break the automatic redirection?

Daniel S

Gaieus · 14 Aug 2010, 03:14

Thanks guys, I have updated the link.
It would normally work this way as well because there's a wild card redirect only it's not working now because there's some maintenance going on in the main site. See Coen's post about those URL changes.
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=29947

anyway, when you see such a broken link, just swap the www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/ part of the link to forums.sketchucation.com/