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

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    • Dave RD Offline
      Dave R
      last edited by

      @unknownuser said:

      You all missed the obvious......... Bring the vertices into plane.

      Apparently you did, too, or this would have been finished business long ago. πŸ˜’

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      • fredo6F Offline
        fredo6
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        @jgb

        Illustration of Skinning with help of edge breakers

        Jgb curviloft skinning.gif

        Fredo

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

          @unknownuser said:

          Rich; If the vertices were properly co-planar, the face would form as soon as the 2nd vertical line was drawn, as did in the other 40+ sections. I would not need to resort to Curviloft to make the face.

          In your original file there was text saying 'It is flat'. It was not flat so I answered that part.

          I then showed how to skin this non-planar ring using CurviLoft and breakers.


          There is an appropriate time to use πŸ‘Ž πŸŽ‰ 🀒 smilies and there is an inappropriate way to overuse them. Please use discretion when you decide to decorate your posts with these.

          Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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          • jgbJ Offline
            jgb
            last edited by

            Thanks again;

            I re-read my OP and I should have been more clear, that the contour was supposed to be flat, based on the fact it was created by a flat intersection. Why it went awry is a mystery.

            I assumed it was flat, or nearly so, as stated, so to go the extra step of making it flat never occurred to me, until it was shown that portions were out of plane.

            As I said before, CL seems to have problems with some almost flat contours. It should not matter if the contour resembles the rocky mountains or the prairies.

            And again, my OP intent was very much more-so to show Fredo a case where CL failed to skin, than to get a solution. And if I had made a mistake in forming the contour, just what was that error and how did you find it. Both of those reasons were far more important than the actual solution.

            Fredo, as far as breakers are concerned, I do use them when CL (on occasion) gives me an inconsistent/weird curve. But this time, there were no pretty colored lines, just a blank non response from CL. And I do get these blank responses from CL even when there are very clear and distinctive sections to a contour.

            I (we all) eagerly await your "Contour Inspector". either as a stand-alone Ruby or as an integral part of Curviloft.

            Tig; I will look into that, thanks.

            Rich, see? only 1 smiley ➑ πŸ˜’ (OK, 2)


            jgb

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            • fredo6F Offline
              fredo6
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              @jgb said:

              Fredo, as far as breakers are concerned, I do use them when CL (on occasion) gives me an inconsistent/weird curve. But this time, there were no pretty colored lines, just a blank non response from CL. And I do get these blank responses from CL even when there are very clear and distinctive sections to a contour.

              Curviloft is not really finished and the error handling is deficient.
              When you don't get a skinning, then it is because Curviloft does not have enough information to perform it. A message would of course be welcome. I'll include error detection in a next version.

              Fredo

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              • pbacotP Offline
                pbacot
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                BTW Is there a skinning video? I periodically watch the other videos at the top of thread, as I seem not to catch or retain all of it on one viewing.

                MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                • jgbJ Offline
                  jgb
                  last edited by

                  @unknownuser said:

                  I'll include error detection in a next version.
                  Fredo

                  πŸ‘
                  (So sorry; Rich)


                  jgb

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                  • peter_shawP Offline
                    peter_shaw
                    last edited by

                    fredo, you are a coding god! this is absolutely amazing.

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                    • F Offline
                      ftrocino
                      last edited by

                      I'm on a Mac and I can't get curv a loft to install properly. I get an error message when I start SU. I copied everything to the plug in directory including the separate library download. There is an entry in the windows dropdown but no tool bar available. Can someone help me with this...I really need to start using the plug in for a project

                      Frank Trocino
                      ftrocino@earthlink.net

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                      • Dave RD Offline
                        Dave R
                        last edited by

                        If you get an error message related to the plugin when you first start SU, you've installed the plugin incorrectly. Since you told us what the error message is, it is impossible to diagnose beyond that. Correct installation has been covered repeatedly in this thread. Please read through it. Fredo's first post shows the footprint of the plugin. Make sure it matches on your machine.

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                          3maj_sie
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                          It looks really cool, but I can't install it:(
                          As you wrote I install also Libfredo pack and .rb
                          but I don't have pligin in SU.
                          When I open SS I have info with load error:

                          "Error 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::T6Error Loading File Lib6Config.rb
                          uninitialized constant Traductor::T6Error Loading File Lib6EdgePicker.rb
                          uninitialized constant Traductor::T6Error Loading File Lib6Error.rb
                          uninitialized constant Traductor::T6Error Loading File Lib6Input.rb
                          uninitialized constant Traductor::T6Error Loading File Lib6Operation.rb
                          uninitialized constant Traductor::T6Error Loading File Lib6Palette.rb
                          uninitialized constant Traductor::T6Error Loading File Lib6PaletteHelper.rb
                          uninitialized constant Traductor::T6Error Loading File Lib6Plugin.rb
                          uninitialized constant Traductor::T6Error Loading File Lib6PluginDialogs.rb
                          uninitialized constant Traductor::T6Error Loading File Lib6Protractor.rb
                          uninitialized constant Traductor::T6Error Loading File Lib6Selmode.rb
                          uninitialized constant Traductor::T6Error Loading File Lib6Startup.rb
                          uninitialized constant Traductor::T6Error Loading File Lib6Tool.rb
                          uninitialized constant Traductor::T6Error Loading File Lib6Translate.rb
                          uninitialized constant Traductor::T6Error Loading File Lib6Upgrade.rb
                          uninitialized constant Traductor::T6Error Loading File Lib6WebHtml.rb
                          uninitialized constant Traductor::T6Error Loading File Lib6WebXTable.rb
                          uninitialized constant Traductor::T6Error Loading File Lib6_txtmsg.rb
                          uninitialized constant Traductor::T6Error Loading File __loader.rb
                          undefined method `effective_load' for nil:NilClass"

                          what's the problem????
                          I copy all files to my plugin folder in SU, (as usually with plugins).
                          But only this doesn't work.

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                          • Dave RD Offline
                            Dave R
                            last edited by

                            You installed it incorrectly. You copied all the files out into the Plugins folder instead of leaving them in the Curviloft folder as they should be. This has been covered repeatedly in this thread. Go back to the beginning and look at the footprint Fredo shows for the plugin. Make it look that way on your computer.

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                            • 3 Offline
                              3maj_sie
                              last edited by

                              @dave r said:

                              You installed it incorrectly. You copied all the files out into the Plugins folder instead of leaving them in the Curviloft folder as they should be. This has been covered repeatedly in this thread. Go back to the beginning and look at the footprint Fredo shows for the plugin. Make it look that way on your computer.

                              Thank YOU!!!!
                              Now it works!!!

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                              • F Offline
                                feixia1127
                                last edited by

                                Looks fantastic, really looking forward to seeing the finished product in operation.

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                                • G Offline
                                  geo
                                  last edited by

                                  Mr fredo
                                  thank for your plugin curviloft , it s perfect solution to my project
                                  thanks again
                                  regards
                                  geo ( french new SU user )

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                                  • D Offline
                                    davidee
                                    last edited by

                                    Hello everybody,

                                    When I installed this plugin on my MacBook Pro with Retina it worked great but it did not look like it is suppose to look. It would be very great if this wil be fixed! πŸ˜„
                                    I put an image of how it looks in the attachments.

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                                    • Dave RD Offline
                                      Dave R
                                      last edited by

                                      I don't see any images.

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                                      • xiombargX Offline
                                        xiombarg
                                        last edited by

                                        Hey thanks for this plugin Fredo. It's by far my favorite surface generating plugin. Great work.

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                                        • M Offline
                                          Mra
                                          last edited by

                                          Hi,

                                          While using this tool there seems to be white text? I can't read the instrucctions 😞


                                          Untitled-1.jpg

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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            That's due to a limitation in the SketchUp API. Screen text take on the colour of your edges. You'd have to temporarily use a different style that doesn't have a white edges.

                                            @Fredo: one workaround for you could be to detect the edge colour setting and swap between light and dark background.

                                            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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