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

charly2008 · 29 Aug 2010, 12:31

Hi Fredo,

I know that it is impossible to find any errors, but still it is a great tool. I admire you, which you can write so wonderful Ruby Scripts.

Charly

Image below: Curviloft and Shape Bender.

Curvi.skp

mariocha · 29 Aug 2010, 13:18

@charly2008 said:

Hi Fredo,
I know that it is impossible to find any errors, ...

I guess you mean "impossible not to find any errors"

charly2008 · 29 Aug 2010, 14:33

Hi Mariocha,

I think both expressions are right. Now it's a mathematical Question. Theoretically, all bugs can be found. This would require all possible geometric cases are tried with the tool. The problem is to find all the possibilities and the time needed for it. Therefore, it is impossible not to find a bug. This problem is found with any software.

Charly

jeff hammond · 29 Aug 2010, 14:42

wow Fredo, the method2 drawing looks excellent!
i'll give it a try myself a little later in the day.

thomthom · 29 Aug 2010, 14:48

Mighty impressive stuff Fredo.
I hope you get some donations for this!

jeff hammond · 29 Aug 2010, 15:14

@thomthom said:

Mighty impressive stuff Fredo.
I hope you get some donations for this!

agree!
Tools-> Fredo6 Collection-> Curviloft-> Donation...

hit it up boys and girls

fredo6 · 29 Aug 2010, 15:50

@charly2008 said:

Hi Fredo,

I know that it is impossible to find any errors, but still it is a great tool. I admire you, which you can write so wonderful Ruby Scripts.

Charly

Image below: Curviloft and Shape Bender.

Thanks the model. Actually, I had fixed the error already in my own version.

Let me also tell you that your golden frises are quite nice looking. I am not sure I would be able to do the same myself with Curviloft!

Finally, I think it is in practiceimpossible to find all errors, but more surely, it impossible to fix them all.

Fredo

jeff hammond · 30 Aug 2010, 14:35

Fredo, i have to admit.. i'm beyond excited!!

bezier method 2 is exactly what i was talking about.. very impressive! [which has me wondering.. how many other little ruby experiments do you have laying around on your hard drives ]
please include that method in subsequent curviloft releases.

mariocha · 30 Aug 2010, 15:11

@unknownuser said:

J... If you wish to test in the meanwhile, you can drop the two attached files in the CURVILOFT_Dir_10 folder
[attachment=1:35q6ko6g]CurviloftPalette.rb[/attachment:35q6ko6g]
[attachment=0:35q6ko6g]CurviloftSpline.rb[/attachment:35q6ko6g]

Some feedback; the "new" CurviLoftSpline.rb seems to go in an endless loop here. No result.
Tried the previous one, works ok.

jeff hammond · 30 Aug 2010, 15:45

@mariocha said:

Some feedback; the "new" CurviLoftSpline.rb seems to go in an endless loop here. No result.
Tried the previous one, works ok.

the newly added method is the one with the arrow pointing to it in this screenshot.. i dunno, i'm not experiencing any looping with it.. maybe upload a .skp showing the problem?

thomthom · 30 Aug 2010, 15:49

Jeff, how do you dock Ruby toolbar buttons to the main toolbar in OSX SU? When I looked at it on my Mac I thought I only had the native buttons available...

jeff hammond · 30 Aug 2010, 16:01

@thomthom said:

Jeff, how do you dock Ruby toolbar buttons to the main toolbar in OSX SU? When I looked at it on my Mac I thought I only had the native buttons available...

right click on an empty space of the toolbar then choose 'customize toolbar'.. all of your icons will be available and can be placed up there individually.. (this goes for all osx apps btw)

one thing to note when doing this in sketchup:
when you quit sketchup, your custom toolbar will be saved however, when you relaunch, only the native google icons will be up there.. ⌘N (File-> New) will give you a new window and your custom layout with 3rd party plugin icons will appear..
i think it's something to do with when the icons are initialized.. the google ones happen during launch prior to the window being shown whereas the plugins folder is accessed later during launch ?

[edit - i should note as well that google's sandbox tools exhibit the same behavior at the 3rd party plugins so it's not as if they have a certain snip of code allowing them to be accessed earlier.. it's the standard google toolset, views, render style etc.. that will remain upon a fresh launch..

also, if you want to remove icons from the toolbar during customization, just drag them off the toolbar and drop them anywhere else on screen.. they'll poof]

edit2 - oh, here's a post from last year where i made a video showing the customization process:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=162762#p162762

mariocha · 30 Aug 2010, 16:52

And Jeff, deserve a THANKS.

charly2008 · 30 Aug 2010, 17:17

Hi Fredo,

Anyone can do that, it is very easy. Draw any profile you want, make it a group and copy it several times as shown in the picture below. A further possibility is to move the profiles horizontally or vertically. So you can then try all possible combinations with Curviloft. The imagination knows no boundaries. The possibilities are endless.

Charly

Untitled.skp

mariocha · 30 Aug 2010, 18:05

@charly2008 said:

...Anyone can do that, it is very easy. ...The possibilities are endless.

Hey thanks a lot for the tip Charlie.
I still got to figure out how you achieve such a nice interior surface thought.

fredo6 · 30 Aug 2010, 20:36

@mariocha said:

Some feedback; the "new" CurviLoftSpline.rb seems to go in an endless loop here. No result.
Tried the previous one, works ok.

Does it happen with a specific model or all models?
Which tool do you use?

Fredo

mariocha · 31 Aug 2010, 01:38

@unknownuser said:

Does it happen with a specific model or all models?
Which tool do you use?
Fredo

Let me investigate a little more, I did not put enough time on it yet to be specific.
Maybe tomorrow in the plane to Basecamp.
I'll keep you in touch.

EscapeArtist · 31 Aug 2010, 14:52

Minor issue I've discovered, and perhaps it's caused by my improper application of the plugin. I get reversed surfaces between rails/curves that make up the object to be lofted. I wouldn't mind so much, except that the surface does not remain divided by the rails, so I have to flip a few hundred faces by hand for each reversed area using "view hidden geometry" to make the faces selectable. Example of the output below. Anything I can do or suggestions as to how to prevent this?

Thanks big time for the plugin, it's really put SU on a whole 'nuther level. I'm finally able to do some modeling I really didn't know how to do in SU before.

Daniel S · 31 Aug 2010, 14:57

@escapeartist said:

Minor issue I've discovered, and perhaps it's caused by my improper application of the plugin. I get reversed surfaces between rails/curves (...)

Double click on the group for edit, select the surface, then right click and select "orient faces".

Daniel S

TIG · 31 Aug 2010, 15:55

@escapeartist said:

Minor issue I've discovered, and perhaps it's caused by my improper application of the plugin. I get reversed surfaces between rails/curves that make up the object to be lofted. I wouldn't mind so much, except that the surface does not remain divided by the rails, so I have to flip a few hundred faces by hand for each reversed area using "view hidden geometry" to make the faces selectable. Example of the output below. Anything I can do or suggestions as to how to prevent this?
[attachment=0:pvmj8oh0]seat.jpg[/attachment:pvmj8oh0]
Thanks big time for the plugin, it's really put SU on a whole 'nuther level. I'm finally able to do some modeling I really didn't know how to do in SU before.

It should orient faces to be all the same...
BIT even then this isn't too problematical...
Temporarily View > Hidden Lines 'On'.
Edit the Group.
Select one face that is correctly oriented, right-click 'Orient' - all connected faces as flipped to match it.
Done!
[Perhaps View > Hidden Lines 'Off' if desired]