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

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    • TIGT Offline
      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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                  • D Offline
                    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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                      • X Offline
                        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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                              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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                                  • fredo6F Offline
                                    fredo6
                                    last edited by

                                    @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

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

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                                        DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ
                                        last edited by

                                        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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                                        • fredo6F Offline
                                          fredo6
                                          last edited by

                                          @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

                                            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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