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

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    • M Offline
      martosurf
      last edited by

      VERY NICE PLUG ,..... SMOUUUUVEE SMOUUUVEEE 😄 ANF GROUUVE 😄
      THANKS 😄 😎

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      • M Offline
        michlja
        last edited by

        Hi! Thanks Fredo! This will make all the difference for me. Just a little hiccup...
        I installed Curviloft 1.2c jsut now, and upon launch sketchup gives me the following errors:
        Error Loading File __loader.rb
        uninitialized constant TraductorError Loading File bootstrap_Curviloft.rb
        uninitialized constant Curviloft::T6Error Loading File CurviloftAlgo.rb
        uninitialized constant Curviloft::T6Error Loading File CurviloftCurveMover.rb
        uninitialized constant Curviloft::T6Error Loading File CurviloftPalette.rb
        uninitialized constant Curviloft::T6Error Loading File CurviloftTool.rb
        uninitialized constant Curviloft::T6

        I installed LibFredo6 immediately before, and that seems to have taken just fine.

        I am running sketchup pro 7 on OS X 10.6.8 (snowleopard)

        Thanks!

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        • Dave RD Offline
          Dave R
          last edited by

          Looks like you installed Curviloft incorrectly. I expect you probably copied the contents of the folder called CURVILOFT_Dir_12 out into the Plugins folder rather than leaving them in the folder as they are supposed to be.

          Etaoin Shrdlu

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          • M Offline
            michlja
            last edited by

            @dave r said:

            Looks like you installed Curviloft incorrectly. I expect you probably copied the contents of the folder called CURVILOFT_Dir_12 out into the Plugins folder rather than leaving them in the folder as they are supposed to be.

            Thanks!
            looks like that corrected it! Maybe I've been installing the others improperly as well... though they work LOL
            here is the contents of the plugins folder:
            __loader.rb
            bezierspline.rb
            bootstrap_Curviloft.rb
            BZ_Dir_14
            Curviloft_donation.html
            Curviloft_ES.lang
            Curviloft_FR.lang
            Curviloft.plugin
            CurviloftAlgo.rb
            CurviloftAlong.rb
            CurviloftCurveMover.rb
            CurviloftEdition.rb
            CurviloftGeometry.rb
            CurviloftMorph.rb
            CurviloftPalette.rb
            CurviloftSkinning.rb
            CurviloftSpline.rb
            CurviloftTool.rb
            DEFPARAM_Dir
            Examples
            examples.rb
            FredoTools__ConstructFaceNormal.rb
            FredoTools__CountFacesBySides.rb
            FredoTools__CurviShear.rb
            FredoTools__MarkVertices.rb
            FredoTools__RemoveLonelyVertices.rb
            FredoTools__ReportLabelArea.rb
            FredoTools__RevertCurve.rb
            FredoTools_ES.lang
            FredoTools_FR.lang
            FredoTools.plugin
            FredoTools.rb
            IMAGES_Standard
            jointpushpull.rb
            JPP_Dir_20
            LIBFREDO6_Dir_43
            LibFredo6.rb
            LibTraductor.rb
            ShaderlightLoader.rbs
            ShaderlightRubyExtension.bundle
            Utilities
            utilities.rb

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            • Dave RD Offline
              Dave R
              last edited by

              @michlja said:

              @dave r said:

              Looks like you installed Curviloft incorrectly. I expect you probably copied the contents of the folder called CURVILOFT_Dir_12 out into the Plugins folder rather than leaving them in the folder as they are supposed to be.

              Thanks!
              looks like that corrected it! Maybe I've been installing the others improperly as well... though they work LOL
              here is the contents of the plugins folder:
              __loader.rb
              bezierspline.rb
              bootstrap_Curviloft.rb
              BZ_Dir_14
              Curviloft_donation.html
              Curviloft_ES.lang
              Curviloft_FR.lang
              Curviloft.plugin
              CurviloftAlgo.rb
              CurviloftAlong.rb
              CurviloftCurveMover.rb
              CurviloftEdition.rb
              CurviloftGeometry.rb
              CurviloftMorph.rb
              CurviloftPalette.rb
              CurviloftSkinning.rb
              CurviloftSpline.rb
              CurviloftTool.rb

              DEFPARAM_Dir
              Examples
              examples.rb
              FredoTools__ConstructFaceNormal.rb
              FredoTools__CountFacesBySides.rb
              FredoTools__CurviShear.rb
              FredoTools__MarkVertices.rb
              FredoTools__RemoveLonelyVertices.rb
              FredoTools__ReportLabelArea.rb
              FredoTools__RevertCurve.rb
              FredoTools_ES.lang
              FredoTools_FR.lang
              FredoTools.plugin
              FredoTools.rb
              IMAGES_Standard
              jointpushpull.rb
              JPP_Dir_20
              LIBFREDO6_Dir_43
              LibFredo6.rb
              LibTraductor.rb
              ShaderlightLoader.rbs
              ShaderlightRubyExtension.bundle
              Utilities
              utilities.rb

              Well, that's proof you installed Curviloft incorrectly. All the files I marked in bold should be in that folder and not loose in the Plugins directory.

              Etaoin Shrdlu

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              • C Offline
                christa lennert
                last edited by

                I see no download button or link on this page. What's wrong?

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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  @christa lennert said:

                  I see no download button or link on this page. What's wrong?

                  Look on the very first post in this topic - it's the standard location for a download link for any toolset... Note that there are requirements for 'library-helper' files that are also linked for this tool...

                  TIG

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                  • N Offline
                    NickGenerator
                    last edited by

                    Because I am really missing the feature I just cannot resist to ask here, too.

                    If you are planning new features for Curviloft it would be great when selecting of curves that are part of different components could become possible. (I mean like the right one where two curves can be one contour.)

                    comp.png

                    Of course I know, that exploding is possible but it is really unconvenient. Especially, because right now you cannot have one instance of the component connected to the path you want to loft with while having the parent somewhere else where it is easier to edit. (You can but if you make the child unique for lofting the connection is gone...)

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                    • charly2008C Offline
                      charly2008
                      last edited by

                      Hi,

                      I wanted to understand this example from NickGenerator and found that these two functions are not active for me. Am I doing something wrong? Any help would be appreciated.

                      Charly


                      Example NickGenerator


                      2012-02-02_193219.jpg

                      He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                      • N Offline
                        NickGenerator
                        last edited by

                        Komisch auf Englisch, aber okay...

                        I think it is, because you just have the circle and the rectangle. And not three shapes.

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                        • fredo6F Offline
                          fredo6
                          last edited by

                          @nickgenerator said:

                          I think it is, because you just have the circle and the rectangle. And not three shapes.

                          @Charly
                          These 2 modes are only enabled when you have 3 shapes or more. They somehow use the fisrt and last profile and build the shape as close as possible to the intermediate ones.
                          Note that this does not always work fine. Still some more work needed when I have time.

                          Fredo

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                          • charly2008C Offline
                            charly2008
                            last edited by

                            Thank you Fredo and Marcus.

                            He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                            • J Offline
                              jlstep06
                              last edited by

                              Does this plugin work for a Mac? The reason i need the plugin is because im trying to create a twisting prism. It has a base of 7"x7"x7", it goes up 22", and tappers to to become 6"x6"x6", i want it twisting at a 137.5 degrees. if somebody would like to practice with Curviloft please give this a shot and send me a copy of it to jackson.stephens7@gmail.com . Thanks in advance to anyone who will help me out!!!!

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                              • Rich O BrienR Online
                                Rich O Brien Moderator
                                last edited by

                                @unknownuser said:

                                if somebody would like to practice with Curviloft please give this a shot and send me a copy

                                why not post your problem?

                                Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp 📖

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                                • Rich O BrienR Online
                                  Rich O Brien Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  Or try this...

                                  [flash=600,450:hms19pr0]http://www.youtube.com//v/mVQ51i0G7AM[/flash:hms19pr0]

                                  Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp 📖

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                                  • GaieusG Offline
                                    Gaieus
                                    last edited by

                                    Curviloft is the perfect tool for this however if you want to twist it by 137.5 degrees, it will twist through itself and will look awful. Practically, you cannot twist it more than 60 degrees as beyond that, an edge will inevitably cross a neighbouring face. Here I twisted it by 180-137.5=42.5 degrees.


                                    prism.skp

                                    Gai...

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                                    • jgbJ Offline
                                      jgb
                                      last edited by

                                      @nickgenerator said:

                                      Because I am really missing the feature I just cannot resist to ask here, too.

                                      If you are planning new features for Curviloft it would be great when selecting of curves that are part of different components could become possible. (I mean like the right one where two curves can be one contour.)

                                      [attachment=0:vrc6ns2r]<!-- ia0 -->comp.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:vrc6ns2r]

                                      Of course I know, that exploding is possible but it is really unconvenient. Especially, because right now you cannot have one instance of the component connected to the path you want to loft with while having the parent somewhere else where it is easier to edit. (You can but if you make the child unique for lofting the connection is gone...)

                                      I've done something very much like this easily, several times successfully. I've done it with curves from as many as 5 different comps building fairings for my airplane designs.

                                      Open to edit one of the comps and select only the lines you want the curve to edge on.
                                      Copy to the clipboard and close the comp.
                                      Paste in Place the copy and immediately make the copy a comp or group.
                                      Open the next comp and clipboard its lines as before, then close it.
                                      Open the lines copy comp/group and Paste in Place, building up the curve control lines.
                                      Repeat as needed.
                                      When done, apply Curviloft to the copied lines, and you have a surface that conforms to the lines from several separate comps. Remember you now have 2 groups containing the surface, so delete one of them.

                                      Also, bear in mind you may also need to do some tweaking of the endpoints common to disparate source comps to close loops, etc, before Curviloft can do a successful surface.


                                      jgb

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                                        curlaloosh
                                        last edited by

                                        Hi, but where to download?

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                                        • jgbJ Offline
                                          jgb
                                          last edited by

                                          @curlaloosh said:

                                          Hi, but where to download?

                                          If you mean the Curviloft pluggin, you can always find the latest version of any pluggin thread in SketchUcation in the very first post by the author. It's a convention in this forum to avoid downloading old versions.


                                          jgb

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                                          • T Offline
                                            Thomus Bean
                                            last edited by

                                            I have been waiting for a plugin like this my whole life!
                                            Nice work.

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