[Plugin] Simple Loft alpha 0.1b -- UPDATED May-15-09
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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')
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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...
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just found it out, installed and tried: Chris, this is simply fantastico!
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Had to join the forum simply to get a hold of this pluggin thanks sooo much
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how do i install it
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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.
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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.
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Hi,
When you extract you get this...
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
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If you are unclear about where your ‘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...
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I installed it.... 1st time it worked perfectly....now...dont work.
Any idea why?
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@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.
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This is amazing! you are a very creative coder, thanks for this!
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Thanks!
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Chris, You are A GENIUS!!!
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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? -
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?
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Thank you so much for sharing this use full
plugin . im new in sketchup....perhaps everybody would like to help me....thank's again 
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You're welcome. There are better tools for lofting now. This was the first one, but TIG and FREDO in particular have done lots of amazing work with lofting plugins. I'd recommend looking at theirs.
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Hi,
one simple question, I downloaded the rb script for the loft tool but it doesn't appear in my sketchup. Neither in my plugins menu even if i click and drag it into the plugins folder of my sketchup.
If you could help, i would really like to use it, seems to work like a charm to creat super smooth surfaces.
Thanks
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Almost always when a user reports that a plugin doesn't work, the reason turns out to be that it was installed incorrectly. Since I know for a fact that the plugin does work, I'll assume the your problem is the same. It appears you have Win7. In that OS you must have administrator privileges to install files into the Plugins folder. Do you? If not, you'll need to change that so you do.
Second, you say you dragged it into your Plugins folder. Did you extract the contents of the ZIP file? When you open the ZIP file you'll see there is a file whose extension is .rb and a folder. The folder has some icon and other files. Those contents must remain in that folder inside the Plugins folder.
There's a sticky post about installing plugins in this forum. Read it. After you've made sure you have administrative rights to add files to the Plugins folder and you've installed it correctly, check to see if it works. If you still have problems, let us know. Include screen shots that show the plugin installed correctly in the Plugins folder.
Also, this plugin contains a single button toolbar. You'll want to turn that on under View>Toolbars.
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