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

Daniel S · 11 Jul 2010, 20:10

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 · 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

DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ · 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

fredo6 · 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

cam youds · 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?????????????????????????????????????????????????

fredo6 · 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

cam youds · 14 Jul 2010, 09:44

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

DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ · 15 Jul 2010, 03:59

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:

skin test.skp

fredo6 · 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

DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ · 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

pep75 · 28 Jul 2010, 19:48

Thanks Fredo! Brilliant update!! Thanks so much!!

grtzzz
Pep

olishea · 4 Aug 2010, 14:27

this really is a different league of plugin!!

something i've been wanting for a LONG time. how come you don't charge? its amazing

mariocha · 5 Aug 2010, 18:17

Testing the beta, the skin command cannot complete this file, attached.
EEbyrails does it well tought.

No-skin.skp

TIG · 5 Aug 2010, 20:12

Both work for me... but there are more facets in CurviLoft's result...

mariocha · 5 Aug 2010, 22:43

Thanks TIG,
So I tried it on the PC side of my MAC, and it worked just fine.
frustrated me
Strange, cause other curves were ok.

fredo6 · 7 Aug 2010, 11:19

@mariocha said:

Testing the beta, the skin command cannot complete this file, attached.
EEbyrails does it well tought.

Mariocha,

I think I know what it is and why it is specific to Mac. I'll publish a fix soon with a new release.

By the way, you can adjust the density of meshing by using the Interpoland OverSamplingboxes. If you deactivate both, then you get a mesh strictly built on the original contour vertices.

Fredo

mariocha · 7 Aug 2010, 15:29

A new relase ? Great !!
And Oversampling & Interpol will be so usefull for designing !
C'est vraiment super !
as I'm working on a tensile structure these days.

cmeed · 18 Aug 2010, 08:32

help.
I see skinning videos posted within this thread but i can't get this shape to work. it seems so simple.....
I click contours, click space, i then repeat until all three lines are coloured and click the tick button or open space. i get a PLEASE WAIT then nothing happens.
Am I doing something wrong, is it Because i'm on a mac?

the last picture is tig's rails but i have to make a 4th rail for it to work.

TIG · 18 Aug 2010, 10:23

Should work with the 3 curves in either Fredo's or mine. With EEbyRails Pick the curve as the profile then the 2 side rails and then re-pick the profile again as the melding-profile - it will end with a point and triangular faces opposite the profile's end, as desired...

cmeed · 18 Aug 2010, 10:45

Thank you for your speedy reply. Tig your plugin is working great (i didn't know about going back to my first curve to make three curves work, cheers)
what i'm making is a field of 800 tents - the ones you can put up in 3 seconds. So i need a way of using the contours and keeping the the polys down.
see pic tent - I used the loft by spline to get this but its not that great, Skinning didn't work.
i wanted to used fredos to get the polys down.