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

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    • I Offline
      ivreich
      last edited by

      Hi Chris

      I tried out your loft tool on my office computer and built a form with a series of b-splines. It worked fine, but when I took the model home and tried to replicate the same loft on my home computers, the face orientation became all screwy and the model folded in on itself.

      I've attached my model for you to take a look at. The form coloured red is the problematic one that I built at home; the b-splines used in both forms are identical.

      Thanks!

      Joel


      Problematic loft...


      Loft Problem.jpg

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        tald311
        last edited by

        This Ruby is brilliant.

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          hsjzyangbin
          last edited by

          Hi Chris
          I found a problem. LOFT is to implement an order to choose the non-closed line, the feasibility of improving the closed line, I want to click on five closed lines, pop-up dialog box, creating the effect shown in Figure


          l1.png


          l2.png

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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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                  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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                        anient
                        last edited by

                        Had to join the forum simply to get a hold of this pluggin thanks sooo much 👍

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                          guillermorage
                          last edited by

                          how do i install it

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                          • Rich O BrienR Offline
                            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.

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                              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 Offline
                                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 📖

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                                • TIGT Offline
                                  TIG Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  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... 🤓

                                  TIG

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                                    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 — 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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