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    • R Offline
      Rip Tanion
      last edited by

      @unknownuser said:

      WHAT am I doing wrong??????? 😞

      I'm still using SU7, but I still think I may be able to help you. I'm assuming you are using Edges by Rails? If so, here's what I think you doing wrong. Looks to me as if you are choosing the wrong profiles and rails. (Blue=profile, purple=rail) You've chosen the bottom circle as the profile, while the open curve and the top circle you've chosen for the rails. I tried to duplicate this in SU7, choosing the bottom circle for the melding profile as well, and SU7 crashed. Even if it didn't crash, I suspect it would have yielded a bizarre shape, not what I suspect you are looking for.

      Try this:
      Choose the open curve as the profile, and the top and bottom circles as the rails, and the open curve again for the melding profile like so
      eebr1.png

      That should give you something like this.
      eebr2.png

      Now, if you want a symmetrical shape, simply select only the open curveβ€”not the circles, just the open curveβ€”and then choose EE by Lathe. Set both axis point on the same vertical axis that runs through the center of the circles, and set the rotation angle to 360. That will give you something like this:
      eebr7.png

      Hope this helped you.

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      • C Offline
        caarloos82
        last edited by

        thank you for your work, such an amazing plugin!

        cheers!

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        • C Offline
          Charlie__V
          last edited by

          Bravo Tig...........Bravo!!!

          Thanks lots,
          Charlie

          Precision M1710/Win 7 Pro 64 bit/i-7 6920 Quad core 2.9 Ghz -3.8/16Gb ram/NVIDIA M5000M 8Gb

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          • Bob JamesB Offline
            Bob James
            last edited by

            This is just such an incredible set of plugins that I had to jump into this thread to say Thank You again. 😍

            i7-4930K 3.4Ghz, 2x GTX780 6GB, 32GB DDR3-1600 ECC, OCZ Vertex 4 500GB, WD Black 3TB, 32TB NAS, 4x 27" Monitors, SpaceMouse Pro, X-keys XK-60

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              junoswayam
              last edited by

              excellent stuff... Thank you very much

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              • eebeeE Offline
                eebee
                last edited by

                Fantastic! Just what I needed! Works great!! 😍

                -ed

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                • BoxB Online
                  Box
                  last edited by

                  Just a thought Tig for another useful extrude.
                  Extrude Edges by Rotation.

                  I can see many uses for it. Most of them are possible another way but it would be nice to simply select an edge or face and extrude it around a point, much like extrude by vector. Handy for doing curved corners in pipes or adding a radius surface to a box etc.

                  Just an idea as I find I use your extrusion tools all the time and this is the only one I seem to miss.

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                  • TIGT Offline
                    TIG Moderator
                    last edited by

                    @box said:

                    Just a thought Tig for another useful extrude.
                    Extrude Edges by Rotation.

                    I can see many uses for it. Most of them are possible another way but it would be nice to simply select an edge or face and extrude it around a point, much like extrude by vector. Handy for doing curved corners in pipes or adding a radius surface to a box etc.

                    Just an idea as I find I use your extrusion tools all the time and this is the only one I seem to miss.

                    Can't you already do this with my EEbyLathe πŸ˜• πŸ˜• πŸ˜•

                    TIG

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                    • BoxB Online
                      Box
                      last edited by

                      Indeed you can, I just didn't know how, now I do. Thanks again.

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                      • C Offline
                        cupko
                        last edited by

                        Hi TIG,
                        Thanks for plugins πŸ‘ .

                        I have problem with Extrude Edges By Edges plugin. I draw two bezier curves and when I want to use EEbE cursor changes to white, but I can't select curves? Nothing happens?

                        SU ver. is 7.0.10247

                        Thanks

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                        • TIGT Offline
                          TIG Moderator
                          last edited by

                          Thanks Pilou for the help...

                          As was said... unlike most of the the other EEby.. tools that require you to pick 'curves' to make the mesh, EEbyEdges requires that the two sets of edges are assembled into two separate groups [you then pick these two groups using the tool]. This grouping allows you to use edges that are not necessarily parts of curves, or indeed even connected together at all, in the EEbyE.. operation...

                          TIG

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                            pilou
                            last edited by

                            Have you transformed each curves in "Group?"
                            Menu Edit / Group
                            Then select the 2 groups
                            Then call the plug β˜€

                            Frenchy Pilou
                            Is beautiful that please without concept!
                            My Little site :)

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                              cupko
                              last edited by

                              Thanks for help β˜€. Make group isn't possible from right-clik menu, but this works perefectly! Great plugin .

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                              • TIGT Offline
                                TIG Moderator
                                last edited by

                                All right-click context-menu items are also available at the end of the Edit Menu...

                                TIG

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                                • L Offline
                                  linco
                                  last edited by

                                  @tig said:

                                  Get the latest zip from the first post in this thread...
                                  Extract everything into a temporary folder - keeping all sub-folders and contents intact.
                                  Move ALL of the the files/sub-folder(with their files) into the v8 ../Plugins/ folder.
                                  Overwriting when prompted to do so.
                                  Check everything that is now in the ../Plugins/TIGtools/ folder... AND if there's a file with the exact same name in the main ../Plugins/ folder remove it from the ../Plugins/ folder - it should be in the sub-folder!

                                  Now everything should work fine.

                                  Run the tools with the Ruby Console open to see if there are error messages.
                                  If you still get errors - if you have SketchyPhysics installed in v8 temporarily remove its .rb files to disable it and see what happens.

                                  If it's still not working post the error messages here... πŸ˜’

                                  Sorry -- I'm a Newbie and this is my first attempt to install a Ruby Plugin. Followed the instructions and I can add the Toolbar, however, it is missing the icons. If you roll your mouse over it, the little squares will light up but there are no icons on it to tell what you are using! So, what did I do wrong?

                                  Also, I assume the Lingvo files are Help files? How do I access them?

                                  Lin
                                  SketchUp Pro 8
                                  Windows7


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                                  • TIGT Offline
                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    I suspect that you have made a similar mistake to the one you've quoted.
                                    I suggest that you remove all of the files that you have just put into the ../Plugins/ folder; to see a list of these read the contents of the zip file and its subfolders. Files that should be in the ../Plugins/TIGtools/ subfolder should never be put into the main folder...

                                    Now... extract the contents of that zip file into a temporary folder somewhere - e.g. ../Desktop/ExtrusionTools/ keeping all of the files that are already in a subfolder in those subfolders - the main subfolder is called 'TIGtools'.
                                    Now move all of these extracted files and subfolders keeping the files within them [i.e. /TIGtools/] into the ../Plugins/ folder.

                                    Now it should work with a restart...

                                    You will find that many complex tools have a subfolder with support files in it.
                                    Often there will be one or two .rb files to go into ../Plugins/ that kick off the tool, and the rest of the files are in a subfolder or perhaps even subfolders within a subfolder!
                                    In the case of the ExtrusionTools, because they are a compilation over time, there are several tools with .rb tool-files and a 'loader' .rb file in ../Plugins/. The 'deBabelizer.rb' tool is required to do language translations: the .lingvo files are the translations it uses [and these must be inside ../Plugins/TIGtools/]. The .png files inside the TIGtools folder are the image-files used for the toolbar button-icons [that's why I 'know' they are not in the right folder - otherwise you wouldn't have this problem!!] πŸ˜’

                                    Please let me know how you fare and if you need any more help please post here...Capture.PNGCapture1.PNG

                                    TIG

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                                    • L Offline
                                      linco
                                      last edited by

                                      Finally -- problem solved! Followed your directions and it still wasn't quite right - then I noticed that my Unarchive was putting everything into one big folder without your TIGtools subfolder. Used a different program to Unzip and now it all works!

                                      thanks!

                                      Lin

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                                      • TIGT Offline
                                        TIG Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        @linco said:

                                        Finally -- problem solved! Followed your directions and it still wasn't quite right - then I noticed that my Unarchive was putting everything into one big folder without your TIGtools subfolder. Used a different program to Unzip and now it all works!

                                        thanks!

                                        Lin

                                        Aha! ALWAYS ensure the files stay inside their subfolders when you install ANY Plugin.; clearly there needs to be a .rb or .rbs file to use those BUT also note that some support files [like Fredo's LIBs all stay inside their supplied folder.

                                        TIG

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                                          Wildchild
                                          last edited by

                                          TIG, I know this might sound silly πŸ˜’ , but what's the difference between curviloft and the extrude tools? For what I know they're pretty similar aren't they? can you (or anyone else) point out some cases where is best to use one insted of the other? thanks

                                          Eternity is very long, especially towards the end. Woody Allen

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                                          • TIGT Offline
                                            TIG Moderator
                                            last edited by

                                            Fredo's tools are quite a lot newer than mine.
                                            Some of the tools are very similar, like EEbyRails and EEbyLoft - BUT there are several in the Extrusion toolset that are NOT - like 'EEby.. Lathe, Vector, Lattice, Face etc...
                                            I have both toolsets and I use mine more, simply because I am used to it...
                                            Fredo's do have a prettier UI and there are extra options to dynamically adjust the mesh etc, and they can work better in some circumstances - like with lofting closed-loop profiles, they might make complex messes a little faster too...
                                            So use what you find works best for you in each instance... πŸ˜„

                                            TIG

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