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    • H Offline
      Hogwarts
      last edited by

      I've been teaching myself to use Sketchup and using Ruby plugins including all the ones in the visual guide here on this forum.

      I haven't had any trouble as of yet. The problem I'm having is that Soap Skin will always create a "Flat" skin of my current wire frame and then I can't adjust anything.

      So I'm wondering is this normal? How am i supposed to adjust the skin ratio to make it go back to matching my wire model?

      The project I'm working on is making some artificial snow on top of a building ledge, so it has to sort of look like clouds.
      Thanks for any help you can provide on this topic.

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      • pilouP Offline
        pilou
        last edited by

        Does this more clear ? πŸ˜‰

        http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=86155&mode=view

        Take a look also to Ferrari plug

        http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=58250

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

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          Hogwarts
          last edited by

          @unknownuser said:

          Does this more clear ? πŸ˜‰

          http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=86155&mode=view

          Take a look also to Ferrari plug

          http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=58250

          I still can't get it to work. These tutorials are not easy to understand for a native English user.
          Thanks anyways.

          Maybe someone else can explain it better.

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          • massimoM Offline
            massimo Moderator
            last edited by

            With the new version:
            1)Select the wire frame;
            2)Press the "Skin" button and you must have a flat subdivided surface (there you can also change the number of subdivisions by typing a value and pressing enter);
            3)Press "enter" and the mesh will adapt to the 3d wire frame.
            Then you can select the created group and apply different pressions with the "X/Y" and "Bub" buttons just by typing values and pressing enter.

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            • H Offline
              Hogwarts
              last edited by

              @massimo said:

              With the new version:
              1)Select the wire frame;
              2)Press the "Skin" button and you must have a flat subdivided surface (there you can also change the number of subdivisions by typing a value and pressing enter);
              3)Press "enter" and the mesh will adapt to the 3d wire frame.
              Then you can select the created group and apply different pressions with the "X/Y" and "Bub" buttons just by typing values and pressing enter.

              Thank you, I got it working now.

              Could you also recommend any more tools similar to this but more interactive for push/pull the mesh
              Thank you.

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              • massimoM Offline
                massimo Moderator
                last edited by

                Well never tried it, but there is also the Ferrari plugin.
                http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=286168#p286168
                Here's the link to some tutorial.
                http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=361338#p361338
                Anyway if you want something more "interactive" maybe you can combine Soap&skin (or Ferrari) and SketchyFFD.
                http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=222122#p222122

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