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    • brookefoxB Offline
      brookefox
      last edited by

      Thank you for your very helpful help. I will try to implement it.

      ~ Brooke

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      • brookefoxB Offline
        brookefox
        last edited by

        It's a start!
        follow me and rotate -7.JPG
        follow me and rotate -9.JPG
        follow me and rotate -8.JPG

        ~ Brooke

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        • Dave RD Offline
          Dave R
          last edited by

          Looks like a drogue to drag behind a boat. 😄

          Etaoin Shrdlu

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          • mitcorbM Offline
            mitcorb
            last edited by

            Do you have to group the polygon first? No?

            I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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            • pilouP Offline
              pilou
              last edited by

              Your result is normal 😉
              Scale 0.2 signify 1/5 at each segment generation!
              so
              1, 0.2, 0.04, 0.008...so toward very tiny very speedy 😉
              Take 0.95 if you want a more smooth reduction 😄

              PS Put a Construction Point at the center of the surface make nothing more! 😉
              This one must be excentered for make something funny!

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

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              • brookefoxB Offline
                brookefox
                last edited by

                You pick the face and the path, face and curve, no group.

                Getting somewhere, at least.

                I'm sparing you the mis-starts, by which means I absolve myself of error.


                follow me and rotate-settings-rotate 15 scale .9-4a.JPG


                follow me and rotate-settings-rotate 15 scale .9-4b.JPG

                ~ Brooke

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                • brookefoxB Offline
                  brookefox
                  last edited by

                  I think that degrees of rotation and scaling over the entire path would be useful settings, saving much perhaps tedious calculation for the machine, which does it so much faster.

                  ~ Brooke

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                  • Dave RD Offline
                    Dave R
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                    http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7085/6965349742_2e0f0c498b_z.jpg

                    I had to play a little. 😉

                    Etaoin Shrdlu

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                    (THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE)

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                    • pilouP Offline
                      pilou
                      last edited by

                      The curious is that works for the v6 but not for the V7 for me 😒

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

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                      • brookefoxB Offline
                        brookefox
                        last edited by

                        I will get a boat and try it. Thank you, Dave.

                        Thanks, Pilou. I figured my interpretation of the scale setting was the problem. I assumed it was over the entire path and that the number would be the result, i.e. 20% of the original at the end. A few extra words in the setting dialog might save a lot of dead drouge drag. Did you miss my construction point? I managed that.

                        I think another problem is the helix has too many segments to be workable and I am trying now to work that but so far the routine reverses the helix, etc.

                        ~ Brooke

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                        • brookefoxB Offline
                          brookefox
                          last edited by

                          My main problem at the time of my first post, apart from understanding that the settings were per segment rather than per curve, was that I had picked the edges of the face as well as the face. You must not pick the face edges.

                          The movement of the path from its original location seems inconsistent, though I don't doubt it is obeying some rule. My faces lie on the path and my control points are at the end of the path and on the face, but sometimes the routine moves the path to have its other end meet the face and point. Once with the same entities but a simplified curve it did not do this.; at the moment it is so instead of decreasing from the big end I contrive to increase from the small end.

                          Use Simplify curves to reduce the segment numbers in a curve if it suits your purposes as it does here for me as I want the faceted look.

                          Pilou's pics by Takesh, with Pilou's notes, at the wonderful site pushpullbar.com: http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?9467-Visual-Index-of-Ruby-Scripts

                          What happens for you now, Pilou?

                          This is close to the kind of thing I was looking for.


                          follow me and rotate-settings-rotate 9 scale 1.05 6 segment face.JPG

                          ~ Brooke

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                          • brookefoxB Offline
                            brookefox
                            last edited by

                            Suggestion for settings dialog, with a tweak.


                            follow me and rotate-settings dialog-prop-1.JPG

                            ~ Brooke

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                            • mitcorbM Offline
                              mitcorb
                              last edited by

                              I downloaded the zip version on page 4 or 5, extracted to V7 Plugins. No sign of any part of the script in the menu. No info in preferences>extensions. No toolbar selection. Nothing in the tools menu. Is it a right click context thing? Did I miss something?

                              I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                              • brookefoxB Offline
                                brookefox
                                last edited by

                                Did you try page 1: far.rar?

                                C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google SketchUp 7 or 8\Plugins\FollowAndRotate_en.rbs

                                Called by name in plugin drop down menu...

                                ~ Brooke

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                                • mitcorbM Offline
                                  mitcorb
                                  last edited by

                                  The files are in the correct Plugins folder, they just don't "install(?)" to be seen in the drop downs.

                                  I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                                  • Dave RD Offline
                                    Dave R
                                    last edited by

                                    It didn't work for me until I put the ...cn.rbs file in, too. And it shows at the bottom of my Plugins menu

                                    Etaoin Shrdlu

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                                    • pilouP Offline
                                      pilou
                                      last edited by

                                      Yes I have made some tuts images for this cool series! 😉

                                      Must be "Rotation Angle per segment"

                                      Try also 2 faces + Path by Kyrill 2008
                                      Very funny plug with options! ☀

                                      http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=32785

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

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                                      • mitcorbM Offline
                                        mitcorb
                                        last edited by

                                        I had the "Far" folder in the Plugins menu. Opening that and copy/pasting the files out of that folder to the file list was the next step. I don't know why the folder would not deploy the files at the last step. So, now I will experiment.
                                        And yes, I see the FollowAndRotate call in the Plugins Menu, now.
                                        Thanks, y'all.

                                        I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                                        • mitcorbM Offline
                                          mitcorb
                                          last edited by

                                          And here is my third and fourth attempts.
                                          The large circular group is approximately 19,000 feet in diameter, according to the tape measure tool. The inputs were 20 rotations, 2.0 scale on a Bezier curve with a 24s circle roughly perpendicular and touching the end of the curve. The circular disc has a sinusoidal cross section mimicking the shape of the Bezier path.
                                          The foreground object is the same items with 10.0 rotations and 0.95 scale.
                                          The Bezier curve used the default parameters and two control points.

                                          On my first try, I got the "drogue" shape.
                                          As Pilou points out, Curviloft does have better controls on the outcome.


                                          followandrotateexample.jpg

                                          I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                                          • pilouP Offline
                                            pilou
                                            last edited by

                                            Curvy Loft by Fredo6

                                            Not exactly the same thing because you have only one progressive rotation between the start form and the End form
                                            (if you take just 2 forms)
                                            Rotate forms by hand 😉

                                            But it's very more friendly and more optional options and you can put any number of different forms (section) on the path!!! 😉
                                            So possibility to have the same rotations than the present plug Rotate and follow! 😉

                                            PS Click very preciselly with zoom inside the internal surface and not on one edge!

                                            heliox.jpg

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

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