[Plugin] WireTool (Catenary) (1.4.1) – updated 06.03.2013

[gullfo]

very cool! this is one of the more useful shapes in acoustics!

[thomthom]

@gullfo said:

very cool! this is one of the more useful shapes in acoustics!

That I wasn't aware of. Guess I need to read up on it again.

[mitcorb]

Another good tool concept. By the way, Remus Knowles has another version in the Plugins Index.

[iichiversii]

@mitcorb said:

Another good tool concept. By the way, Remus Knowles has another version in the Plugins Index.

Any idea what his version is called?

[Aerilius]

Remus' plugin is the Simple Catenary Curve. It "just" calculates the curve for a given set of 17 points but it put me on the right path to look on Wikipedia after I had a paper full of integrals that didn't want get further simplified.

[urgen]

HA!...cool idea.thanks Aerilius

[nektares]

I always did this with splines, this is a much better and precise way to do it, Thank you!

[sdmitch]

When I tried the plugin, I kept getting a canatnary drawn from the origin to my first pick point. Adding a @state = 0 to the def initialize method fixed this problem.

[Aerilius]

Hi Sam,
thanks for the tip. I wonder why this happens, although the initialize method does not have @state=0, this should be set when the activate method calls reset.
Is someone else having this problem?

[massimo]

@unknownuser said:

Is someone else having this problem?

Yes the same here. Thanks for the plugin btw.

[thomthom]

create_geometry and draw_geometry can be refactored into one method that returns an array of point3d objects - the only difference between these methods are the final statement. DRY

[Dave R]

I didn't experience the same thing that Sam reported.

[gullfo]

i added the @state=0 and it made a difference in terms of being able to select the first point. very nice tool!

[Dave R]

So why don't I have this same problem? I didn't modify the script and it works fine for me.

[wind-borne]

@dave r said:

So why don't I have this same problem? I didn't modify the script and it works fine for me.

Which version are you using?
initial version works fine for me, updated version moves to origin.

[Dave R]

That would explain it. I didn't catch that there was an update because the thread title wasn't edited to show that as is SOP here.

[Dave R]

So now I've updated the plugin and added the line as mentioned. I get some rather strange behavior now. See the video.

[flash=420,315:13s7e1sa]http://www.youtube.com/v/7IJXmgk8lio?version=3&hl=en_US[/flash:13s7e1sa]

[TIG]

I have the original version [that works] if anyone wants it...

[Dave R]

I guess I'd be interested.

[raineysky]

I would very much like to have it if it makes rope. I tried it but got results like Dave shows in the video.