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    majid
    last edited by 18 Feb 2010, 08:04

    first I must thank you for your handy tool Dider, and then I thought if you could combine this plugin with a geosphere creator + an option to have sphere in junction points, then we would have A LATTIC TOOL ,right in sketchup, that makes space frames easy.

    My inspiring A, B, Sketches book: https://sketchucation.com/shop/books/intermediate/2612-alphabet-inspired-sketches--inspiring-drills-for-architects--3d-artists-and-designers-

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      pilou
      last edited by 18 Feb 2010, 08:18

      @majid
      for some things you can use that πŸ˜‰
      A cool use of this "Multiple Face Offset" By Remus 😎
      If you don't use it in this case Windowizer(3 free or 4) By Rick Wilson @Smustard
      don't make the "Frame Inset"! πŸ˜‰
      Windowizer is a crazzy plug : All types of piercing windows + multiple selections 😲

      Selection Only faces by Selection Toys by Thomthom β˜€
      Invert Selection by TIG β˜€

      For Crazzy Geodesic domes By TaffGoch @ 3Dwarehouse 😲
      His site πŸ€“ Crazzy PDF collector! 😎

      http://forums.polyloop.net/picture.php?albumid=23&pictureid=655

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

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        TIG Moderator
        last edited by 18 Feb 2010, 10:12

        My EEbyFace also does something similar but it allows you to define the extrusion's cross section by making a 'flat' face [it's Y green axis = extrusions initial Z blue axis] - the face can be any shape you like so you are no longer limited to circular tubes...

        TIG

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          harshal kshatriya
          last edited by 21 Feb 2010, 09:08

          wow its working man............
          i love it
          thanks a lot πŸ‘

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            cadmunkey
            last edited by 5 Jul 2010, 15:32

            Just installed this plugin and its great for converting custom autocad hatches into solids. Thanks man!

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              pilou
              last edited by 5 Jul 2010, 15:35

              @unknownuser said:

              no longer limited to circular tube

              Didier Bur plug "Line to tubes" can make circles of 3 edges so a triangle, 4 edges so a square, etc...β˜€ πŸ˜‰

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

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                agamemnus
                last edited by 20 Nov 2010, 19:36

                I tried this, but the tubes don't get "welded" / smoothed at edges:
                http://img109.imageshack.us/i/tubes.png/

                Is there a plugin that does this?

                Edit: Ok, never mind.. I used BZ tools to convert my loop to a bezier curve (edit 2: polyline is better, actually, for this...), and then applied this plugin. It's all welded now! πŸ˜„

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                  alvin_pox
                  last edited by 14 Oct 2011, 16:16

                  Hi.
                  I've downloaded the .rb file in the plugin folder but when I restart sketchup, I keep getting a pop-up window with the following...

                  Error Loading File lines2tubes.rb
                  undefined local variable or method `book' for main:Object

                  This plugin would really help with my design project greatly, so I'm really hoping someone here could help me get it to work.
                  I'm using sketchup 8 on mac btw.
                  Thanks.

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                    TIG Moderator
                    last edited by 14 Oct 2011, 21:46

                    Sounds like the file is corrupted as there is no reference to 'book' in it. πŸ˜•
                    Get the file again and put the .rb file into the Plugins folder, and retry.
                    Don't edit it with a word-processor or similar as this might corrupt it...
                    The file is 'packed' and is unencrypted as it loads - I have no problems with it so you seem to have messed up something in the file's text itself ? πŸ˜•

                    TIG

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                      majid
                      last edited by 15 Oct 2011, 04:06

                      Thank you Pilou
                      I was specting junction spheres. like this , 1 min try wings3d ( it is handy in some cases, while a different approach, and is easy enough for me that am not a 3dsmax fan)


                      geo.gif

                      My inspiring A, B, Sketches book: https://sketchucation.com/shop/books/intermediate/2612-alphabet-inspired-sketches--inspiring-drills-for-architects--3d-artists-and-designers-

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                        alvin_pox
                        last edited by 15 Oct 2011, 04:08

                        @tig said:

                        Sounds like the file is corrupted as there is no reference to 'book' in it. πŸ˜•
                        Get the file again and put the .rb file into the Plugins folder, and retry.
                        Don't edit it with a word-processor or similar as this might corrupt it...
                        The file is 'packed' and is unencrypted as it loads - I have no problems with it so you seem to have messed up something in the file's text itself ? πŸ˜•

                        Have downloaded the file again and it works now!
                        I noticed that the file I had yesterday had a big red "Rb" on the file icon thumbnail, but it doesn't today after I redownloaded it.
                        I also tried other plugins yesterday and all seemed to get the same error message when loading and the big red Rb on their thumbnails, so it doesn't look like it was a single corrupted file. Weird.
                        But it's all sorted now. Thanks so much:p

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                          pilou
                          last edited by 15 Oct 2011, 13:12

                          And Wings3D can reload 3DS format from 3Dwharehouse or from SU πŸ˜‰

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

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                            majid
                            last edited by 15 Oct 2011, 16:15

                            yeap, it has wide range of import/export formats included. very handy,... sort of free subd/smooth πŸ˜‰

                            My inspiring A, B, Sketches book: https://sketchucation.com/shop/books/intermediate/2612-alphabet-inspired-sketches--inspiring-drills-for-architects--3d-artists-and-designers-

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                              btxscg
                              last edited by 29 Oct 2011, 06:52

                              it's great

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                                irwanwr
                                last edited by 30 Nov 2011, 19:51

                                i'd like to thank the author, Didier for this very useful plugin.
                                i used to utilise the push/pull tool before. with this plugin, i could just do it on the line frames and one or two more clicks.

                                thank you very much πŸ‘

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                                  Steuart
                                  last edited by 3 Mar 2012, 12:17

                                  Hi Didier and all.
                                  I have just installed the Lines2tubes plug in. Initially I tried to use it and it crashed (of course before I had saved anything - auto save does not seem to work unless you have done at least an initial save). Then each time I tried to re:launch SU it would instantly crash. I also tried TubeAlongPath and pretty much the same thing happens. In each case it was fine once I had remeoved the plug in. Anyone any ideas? I am using a Macbook pro, with 10.5 and SU 8. I would love to be able to use the program as it would save a huge amount of time.

                                  Thanks

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                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by 3 Mar 2012, 16:07

                                    Might it be the scripts are getting corrupted?
                                    How are you downloading / installing them ?
                                    DO you have other scripts that work OK ?

                                    TIG

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                                      Steuart
                                      last edited by 5 Mar 2012, 12:25

                                      Hi Tig,
                                      I simply put them into the plugins folder - the same as i have put several other plugins (see list below - I have removed the lines2tubes and the other similar plugin that was crashing the program) with no problems (hard disk/library/application support/google sketchup 8/sketchup/plugins

                                      centerpoint.rb
                                      DEFPARAM_Dir
                                      Examples [folder]
                                      examples.rb
                                      Fredo6Trace.txt
                                      LIBFREDO6_Dir_43
                                      LibFredo6.rb
                                      LibTraductor.rb
                                      maxwell[folder]
                                      maxwell.rb
                                      MI.png
                                      Ocean[folder]
                                      ocean_extension.rb
                                      ROUNDCORNER_Dir_23
                                      Smooze[folder]
                                      Soften.rb
                                      Utilities[folder]
                                      utilities.rb
                                      ZLoader__RoundCorner.rb

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                                        TIG Moderator
                                        last edited by 5 Mar 2012, 20:44

                                        πŸ˜•

                                        TIG

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                                          bharvey
                                          last edited by 9 Aug 2012, 13:54

                                          πŸ˜„ You're freaking awesome Didier!

                                          Guard/Handrails just got alot easier.

                                          Thanks!!!

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