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

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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      Yea - we have a whole year worth of seasons in 30 minutes. Pretty much how I remember England to be like when I lived there. Just a bit colder and a tad more snow.

      Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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      • jgbJ Offline
        jgb
        last edited by

        In Canada, except for the left coast, we get winter then a coupla nice days.
        Badum boom πŸ˜†

        In Toronto, if you don't like the weather, just wait a few hours.
        Badum boom πŸ˜†

        Not kidding. 6 weeks ago the furnace was on, then 2 days later the air con was on for 4 days, then a week and a half of torrential rain and thunderstorms. Then the furnace was back on for 2 days, then it became almost nice out.

        Garfield says it best.....


        jgb

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        • fredo6F Offline
          fredo6
          last edited by

          Thanks to all for being beta testers between the 26th and 27th.πŸ˜„
          So the release should be OK by now!!

          Fredo

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          • jeff hammondJ Offline
            jeff hammond
            last edited by

            finally had a chance to try the new one out and..

            .. that's awesome how you can do this (obtaining the curves) using loft instead of skinning now.

            i thought you might of just changed the skinning part of curviloft but being able to get the mean curves via loft (without the need for the extra set-up lines) is really sweet.

            thanks for the update!

            dotdotdot

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            • GaieusG Offline
              Gaieus
              last edited by

              One more thing, Fredo (certainly I could also edit it but that's just a last resort). In the first post, you write Curviloft 1.1a and below you can download 1.1b. This may cause confusion.


              Curviloft-1-1-a-b.png

              Gai...

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              • fredo6F Offline
                fredo6
                last edited by

                NEW RELEASE: Curviloft 1.1c - 29 Jun 11

                Curviloft version 1.1b introduced the generation of mean curves between contours.

                There was however a bug, signaled by Defisto, when contours are closed loops.

                Version 1.1c fixes this issue

                See main post for download

                Fredo

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                • pilouP Offline
                  pilou
                  last edited by

                  And this does be again the case?

                  @unknownuser said:

                  Curviloft plugin is still released in BETA

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

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                  • fredo6F Offline
                    fredo6
                    last edited by

                    Pilou,

                    There is no doc yet and there are many missing features (and probably many bugs).
                    So I won't call it an official release!

                    Fredo

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                    • F Offline
                      fiors
                      last edited by

                      Hi. Great plugin!
                      I do have one question/concern. I'm trying to use it for a curved railing. The profile is obviously not a perfect circle so it twists along the bezier. Is there a more effective way or different plugin to prevent the twisting and have the profile maintain some universal orientation?

                      Thank you!
                      S

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                      • Dave RD Offline
                        Dave R
                        last edited by

                        Follow and Keep?

                        Etaoin Shrdlu

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                        (THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE)

                        G28 X0.0 Y0.0 Z0.0

                        M30

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                        • jason_marantoJ Offline
                          jason_maranto
                          last edited by

                          Profile Builder also may work for your needs.

                          Best,
                          Jason.

                          I create video tutorial series about several 2D & 3D graphics programs.

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
                            last edited by

                            @jason_maranto said:

                            Profile Builder also may work for your needs.

                            Best,
                            Jason.

                            PB performs a follow me operation and will twist.

                            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                            • M Offline
                              mac1
                              last edited by

                              FAK keep will not twist but does not keep elevation in 100% of cases. 1001 bit tools will work. It has a free eval period that you my want to check it out...
                              Clarification: FAK elevation comes into play when you go over a "hill" and for railing this should not be an issue 😳

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                              • R Offline
                                rjjvirusx
                                last edited by

                                Thank you & I need learn some more~!

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                                • T Offline
                                  tutu7931
                                  last edited by

                                  good tool man, thanks for sharing!!

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                                  • L Offline
                                    lapx
                                    last edited by

                                    I've tried it as well. Thanks Fredo for such a wonderful tool. Can you get it to maintain a sharp edge? I noticed it round the corners. Would be nice to have this as an option if available.

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                                      clmene
                                      last edited by

                                      only amazing ....

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                                        TrisQ
                                        last edited by

                                        Fredo, this tool is brilliant. Thank you so much. I am using it for 3D Printing, and the one issue I am struggling with are "holes" in the shells, that make the resulting STL files cause trouble in the further printing process. Do you have any advice on how to avoid such tiny holes, or what situations to avoid that are prone to causing them? Thanks, TrisQ

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                                        • TIGT Offline
                                          TIG Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          @trisq said:

                                          Fredo, this tool is brilliant. Thank you so much. I am using it for 3D Printing, and the one issue I am struggling with are "holes" in the shells, that make the resulting STL files cause trouble in the further printing process. Do you have any advice on how to avoid such tiny holes, or what situations to avoid that are prone to causing them? Thanks, TrisQ
                                          When you make complex geometry in code [and sometimes by hand] tiny tolerance issues result in microscopic holes. If your initial geometry is too small this can be more prone. Sketchup/OpenGL can't create faces <~1mm [0.01sq"] but they can exist later - so making something perhaps x10 the final size and scaling it down later by x0.1 will avoid many problems.
                                          There is an excellent tool by Thomthom - 'Solid Inspector' - which highlights 'errors' in your near-solid groups and lets you see where they are, so you can fix them. Look in the Plugins Index [big red button above here] - http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=250026#p250026 > http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=267832#p267832

                                          TIG

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                                          • jgbJ Offline
                                            jgb
                                            last edited by

                                            I found in some complex skinning that CL may either not skin, or will partially skin, or twist the skin, or seem to work (black pre-skin looks OK then an empty group results), or in rare cases, leave tiny gaps as you have experienced. But when I do these complex skins in sections, then later explode the multiple results, CL does work quite well, most of the time.

                                            Also reducing the complexity of the guide curves helps a lot.

                                            Perhaps you could do your CL skins in sections to see if that helps.


                                            jgb

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