[Plugin] Extrude Edges by Faces
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The faces are located at the nearest points on their edges to the rail.
Thereby you control their orientation and form by putting the required point on their edges nearest the rail start/end. The face can also be rotated in 3D which will affect the form too.
We could have an optional Cpoint or use the Face-bbox-center but I feel this is too complex - especially since 3D faces are allowed ?
To get the sort of forms you suggest perhaps you can place the faces at the start/end of the path and move a face so as to distort the rial-curve, then run EEbyFaces ???
I did think about angling the profiles as we went but it's complicated as the 'face' will need to turn by the bisector of the angle between the two edges ? I'll sleep on it...
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So stupid - it was the original melding face!!!
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I left it as a group with the original faces remaining - explode the group to get the faces to merge back together - though one might then be reversed?
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another example of what could be its plugins.
[flash=800,600:1poz4zaw]http://www.youtube.com/v/K8fA4TItuCA&fs=1[/flash:1poz4zaw]
generated with the same geometry:
1 - draw metal
2 - patchface
3 - extrudeedgesbyface
4 - Extrude Edges by Rails -
Thank you So much TIG for that new tool.
We see You producing with the power of an iron horse (I can't imagine where you are finding the time!) a complete set of amazing and so necessary Extrusion tools.In the present case, it seems that Kirill have developped a very similar tool: [Plugin] 2 Faces + Path ver. 1.5. What do you think ?
I am going to watch for differences, but unlike you I always run after time.
very friendly, simon
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Tool has been updated -
1.1 20100220 Color coding of picked faces/curves added.
ProfileFaceEdges=Cyan
Rail=Magenta
MeldingProfileFaceEdges=DarkCyan
See here for download link http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=226249#p226249 -
I always appreciate your works!
But I have the problem that after running EEbFaces,
there is no results through mesh-maker(?).
I got only some cpoints such like the attatched image.Could you explain what's wrong?
Sincerely.
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Without the skp - it's a 'no'...
BUT two 'flat' faces can produce odd results - especially with an unmatched segment count to the faces' edges.
Have you tried welding the faces' edges into curves and using EEbyRails instead with the 'arc' picked as both paths ?
Or EEbyLoft on these faces' [now] curved edges might give the result you want...
Or wait for Fredo's CurviLoft which seems more stable for problems combos like these
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Here's an update http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=226249#p226249
Smoothing now ignores edges with only one face... -
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@unknownuser said:
Seems there is a little glitch ?
Melding profile is just the first profile scaled
You have that in your two faces !
Isn't that what it's supposed to do?
Change the second face you get a different result - see my screengrab.
It would probably be a better idea the place the faces at the start end of the rail too ?
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The little "flats side" disapear/transform along the path!
But yes put the forms on the path resolves the problem
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@unknownuser said:
The little "flats side" disappear/transform along the path!
But yes put the forms on the path resolve the problem
That is because placing them at the extremities of the path-rail fixes their relationship to the path; otherwise an assumed relationship is inferred from each profile's vertex nearest to the rail start/end as appropriate - hence the 'twisting' that you had.
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