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    [Plugin] Simple Loft alpha 0.1b -- UPDATED May-15-09

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    • EscapeArtistE Offline
      EscapeArtist
      last edited by

      Issue trying to loft 3 curves:

      onSelectionBulkChange46
      onSelectionBulkChange96
      onSelectionBulkChange142
      onSelectionCleared
      Error; #<ArgumentError; Cannot convert argument to Sketchup;;Point3d>
      L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/clf_simple_loft/clf_simple_loft.rb;142;in `vector_to'
      L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/clf_simple_loft/clf_simple_loft.rb;142;in `middle_handles'
      L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/clf_simple_loft/clf_simple_loft.rb;137;in `each_index'
      L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/clf_simple_loft/clf_simple_loft.rb;137;in `middle_handles'
      L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/clf_simple_loft/clf_simple_loft.rb;87;in `onReturn'
      L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/clf_simple_loft/clf_simple_loft.rb;86;in `times'
      L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/clf_simple_loft/clf_simple_loft.rb;86;in `onReturn'
      L;/Modeling/Sketchup Google/Plugins/clf_simple_loft/clf_simple_loft.rb;86
      
      

      In a nutshell, I select 3 unattached curves and apply loft - nothing happens.

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      • M Offline
        mspisz
        last edited by

        Hey Chris!

        Great plugin!, does exactly what I need it for in school!

        Your the man!

        Milo

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        • Chris FullmerC Offline
          Chris Fullmer
          last edited by

          Great, glad it helped. It is admitedly outdated now though. Check out TIG's extrude scripts. Those are considerably more powerful!

          Chris

          Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
          All my Plugins I've written

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          • O Offline
            ovandenbroek
            last edited by

            Hi Chris and all others,

            I like the concept of loft very much. In fact, it is one of the tools IMO that are making sketchup becoming a 'really' professional tool...

            see the attachment of a particular shape (based on a design made earlier in 3DMAX, it's a counter).

            I think you can make this only with 'loft' and not with TIG extrude tools. (?)

            Okke

            (PS For this kind of work I would love to have some more control over the 'bending' spline. In planview it's supposed to be a round counter, but as you can see the bending is not totaly 'circular')


            Loftshape-ovdb

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            • TIGT Offline
              TIG Moderator
              last edited by

              EEbyRails requires some 'rails' to follow - CF's Loft doesn't - it always joins the two profiles by a bezier [?] curve [and you must have equal numbers of segments in each profile and no 'loops' allowed].

              To use the profiles you have shown with EEbyRails simply add some curves between them to be used as rails... then do a pair of profiles in turn with their 'rails[s]', using the second profile as the first profile in the next pair etc...

              This means the railed path can be any form you like...Untitled.png

              TIG

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                arch.sani
                last edited by

                just found it out, installed and tried: Chris, this is simply fantastico!

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                • A Offline
                  anient
                  last edited by

                  Had to join the forum simply to get a hold of this pluggin thanks sooo much πŸ‘

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                    guillermorage
                    last edited by

                    how do i install it

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                    • Rich O BrienR Online
                      Rich O Brien Moderator
                      last edited by

                      The first post in this thread has the instructions. It's the same for most plugins here. Some are zipped so they need extracting. Others are just .rb files which need to go in your plugins folder. And some are .rb with folders containing files.

                      All plugins go in your plugin folder.

                      Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                      • G Offline
                        guillermorage
                        last edited by

                        Sorry, i am new in this forum, im using mac, i downloaded and its a ziped file, so i extracted and it appears a folder wich contains an rb file called:clf_simple_loft_loader.rb and another folder which contains; clf_simple_loft_small.png, clf_simple_loft.png, clf_simple_loft.rb.
                        I tried to move them to the plugins and then open sketchup, but nothing.

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                        • Rich O BrienR Online
                          Rich O Brien Moderator
                          last edited by

                          Hi,

                          When you extract you get this...
                          Simple Loft.jpg
                          Place both the .rb and the folder in your plugins folder. Do not take the files out of the folder as this will prevent it working.

                          I'm not familiar with Mac so where your plugin folder is located is a mytery 😲

                          Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                          • TIGT Offline
                            TIG Moderator
                            last edited by

                            If you are unclear about where your β€˜Plugins’ folder might be then type [or copy+paste] this line into the
                            Window > Ruby Console:

                            Sketchup.find_support_file("Plugins")

                            • press <enter>

                            Typically the PC path that is returned is:

                            C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins

                            Whilst typically the Mac path that is returned is:

                            Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Google Sketchup 7/SketchUp/Plugins

                            Test to see where yours is... πŸ€“

                            TIG

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                            • M Offline
                              microracer9
                              last edited by

                              I installed it.... 1st time it worked perfectly....now...dont work.

                              Any idea why?

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                              • thomthomT Offline
                                thomthom
                                last edited by

                                @microracer9 said:

                                I installed it.... 1st time it worked perfectly....now...dont work.

                                When reporting software problems please be more specific to what doesn't work. Is it a particular operation that fails? Or does it appear to not be loading at all? (No menus/toolbars) Any error messages (open the Ruby Console as see if any messages appear when you try to use the plugin) ?

                                That's the only way for the developer, or any other, to have an idea of what "doesn't work" and why.

                                Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                  nektares
                                  last edited by

                                  This is amazing! you are a very creative coder, thanks for this!

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                                  • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                    Chris Fullmer
                                    last edited by

                                    Thanks!

                                    Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                                    All my Plugins I've written

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                                      Gromit
                                      last edited by

                                      Chris, You are A GENIUS!!!

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                                        jeh397
                                        last edited by

                                        I just downloaded the loft plugin and I'm finding that once I select the loft tool
                                        I can't select any of the curves in my model. Any suggestions?

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                                        • Dave RD Offline
                                          Dave R
                                          last edited by

                                          Jacqueline, could you post either the model or a screen shot so we can see what you're doing?

                                          Out of curiosity, is there any chance your curves are inside components or groups that are not open for editing?

                                          Etaoin Shrdlu

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                                            Alezio
                                            last edited by

                                            Thank you so much for sharing this use full πŸ‘ plugin . im new in sketchup....perhaps everybody would like to help me....thank's again πŸ˜„ πŸ˜„ πŸ˜„ πŸŽ‰

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