[Question] Soap Skin & Bubble

[Hogwarts]

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.

[pilou]

Does this more clear ?

Take a look also to Ferrari plug

[Hogwarts]

@unknownuser said:

Does this more clear ?

Take a look also to Ferrari plug

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.

[massimo]

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.

[Hogwarts]

@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.

[massimo]

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