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

charly2008 · 20 Nov 2010, 21:46

Hi mitcorb,

at first many thanks for your nice comments. I'm just a retired mechanical engineer. I have nothing to do with jewelry. My thanks to Fredo and TIG for their wonderful plugins that allow me always to try new ideas. Curviloft inspired me again and again to construct new forms. It is not a great art, but only practice and a little visionary. In principle, everyone who deals with it can do it.

Charly

jbw007 · 7 Jan 2011, 08:24

Hi Fredo,

I've download your fantastic plugin, but I'm not able to use it. I get the toolbar and menu items, and I've created the curves that I want to work on. Nothing happens at all. I've check the video 10 times and can't see what's wrong. It's the only Plugin that I have installed, after a reinstall of SU. Nothing in the Ruby console, in fact the same problem that 'Rachmatrf' have in June. I've looked through the forum for the answer to him, but failed to find the solution. Can you help ?

Regards

Jens

Running XP SP3, and SU8

fredo6 · 12 Jan 2011, 18:32

Jason,

I had a look and yes the design is quite impressive. I see of course where you used the plugins.
You really should put a picture in your post.

Fredo

jason_maranto · 12 Jan 2011, 19:08

Hey Fredo,

I am currently trying my best to learn how to use curviloft and I working on a project that I think fits alot of what the tool does -- since everyone else is sharing I thought I would too. This is a the arm for a robot from a show I watched as a child called Robotech (also known as Macross overseas).

http://www.spotoarts.com/jason/armandgun_posed_dc.skp (5mb download)

I am using curviloft, roundcorner, and JJP for alot of this -- you may also notice that this is a dynamic component and if you click on it I have rigged it to animate between 2 positions... although the poly-count is really stretching the limits of what can be animated.

Thank-you for your plugins!

I also forgot to mention I'm using your BZ toolbar set as well

Best,
Jason.

fredo6 · 12 Jan 2011, 22:41

NEW RELEASE: Curviloft 1.1a - 12 Jan 11

Sorry for long absence. This new release hopefully includes a functional version of Loft Along Path, along with other fixes. It also support a two-phase loading.

Note that you will need to upgrade to LibFredo6 3.6.

There is still no documentation. So the best is have a look at the video:
[flash=640,480:3menursp]http://www.youtube.com/v/AZnVY3unWPU&hl[/flash:3menursp]

See main post for download

Fredo

Rich O Brien · 12 Jan 2011, 22:47

Thanks again Fredo6, this is an amazing tool

utiler · 12 Jan 2011, 22:49

Fredo, I don't know how many time I can say thank you with out it becoming monotonous but, thank you!

Dave R · 12 Jan 2011, 22:54

Wow!

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Daniel S · 12 Jan 2011, 23:29

Thank you Fredo!!!

I like the respect tangency method

But looks like the skinning option has a regression

Daniel S

skin.skp

fredo6 · 12 Jan 2011, 23:41

@daniel s said:

[b]But looks like the skinning option has a regression

Daniel S

Daniel,

You always find the right bugs. Thanks for that! This seems to be with 3 sides shapes.
I have a look.

Fredo

pilou · 12 Jan 2011, 23:45

Happy new year Fredo! et

fredo6 · 13 Jan 2011, 00:12

Small bug signaled by Daniel S in Skinning (on 3-side shapes) is fixed.
You just need to upgrade to LibFredo6 3.6b

Fredo

Daniel S · 13 Jan 2011, 00:21

That was fast.. thank you again Fredo!!!

Awesome plugin

Daniel S

pilou · 13 Jan 2011, 00:21

Speedy SAV (in English after sales service )

jason_maranto · 13 Jan 2011, 00:25

Hi Fredo,

Thank-you again for this -- I do have a slight request... I have some re-occurring twisting and if I take the time to align the verts manually the result comes out exactly the way I want, but manually setting the verts seems a bit temperamental at this point and I was wondering if it could be possible to set the "twist" parameters to decimal increments as it would solve my problem (1 is too large a change). See attached file for example.

If there is a better solution then I am very interested... I have split the profiles down the middle and successfully finished it that way.

Best,
Jason.

twisty verts.skp

massimo · 13 Jan 2011, 08:19

Amazing as usual...
Thank you.

fredo6 · 13 Jan 2011, 10:11

@jason_maranto said:

Hi Fredo,

Thank-you again for this -- I do have a slight request... I have some re-occurring twisting and if I take the time to align the verts manually the result comes out exactly the way I want, but manually setting the verts seems a bit temperamental at this point and I was wondering if it could be possible to set the "twist" parameters to decimal increments as it would solve my problem (1 is too large a change). See attached file for example.

If there is a better solution then I am very interested... I have split the profiles down the middle and successfully finished it that way.

Best,
Jason.

Jason,

In your case, the alignment issue can be solved by using naturalvertex matching, as opposed to best-fit of shapes(which is the default).
Here is an illustration on your model. In your case, the natural 'straight' matching is more appropriate than the shape best-fit method.

Fredo

PS: by the way, your model is a good illustration for using the transversal Spline methods (like F-Spline, second icon from the right, in red). See in attached file
twisty verts - Fredo.skp

fredo6 · 13 Jan 2011, 11:03

@utiler said:

Fredo, I don't know how many time I can say thank you with out it becoming monotonous but, thank you!

Thanks to your thanks. I hope you are safe with all the water flooding in Queensland.

Fredo

jason_maranto · 13 Jan 2011, 13:17

Thank-you again Fredo -- I tried all the other icons there but failed to try that last one (toggle natural) This is such an amazing tool for Sketchup

Best,
Jason.

Ben Ritter · 13 Jan 2011, 14:43

Fredo, thank you very very much, again.