Wrapping 2D drawing on a cylinder?

[Tyler]

clarification - I am indeed going to be wrapping 2D Sketchup geometry (a tiled hexagon)on to a cylindrical surface which will actually be a vault, no a complete cylinder.

After some research, I came across Fredo's "Tools on Surface" - might that work?

[olishea]

shape bender, it will work just fine.

[jeff hammond]

@tyler said:

clarification - I am indeed going to be wrapping 2D Sketchup geometry (a tiled hexagon)on to a cylindrical surface which will actually be a vault, no a complete cylinder.

shapebender...

[olishea]

Would love to see a shapebender that works on a closed loop.

[gilles]

Cut it in two parts.

[Tyler]

Great - looks like I'll see how shapebender works out. Wasn't sure if it manipulated 2D entities.

[olishea]

@gilles said:

Cut it in two parts.

That's how I did the honeycomb lamp, it's just annoying

[jeff hammond]

@gilles said:

Cut it in two parts.

it'd be nice but then you run into the error (you know.. that one in that crazy long thread )

the halves won't go back together properly

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[pilou]

@unknownuser said:

Wasn't sure if it manipulated 2D entities.

Of course yes!

And if you make a tiny gap in your curve's circle you don't see it on the result!

[willbuttrick]

Is this plugin compatible with MAC?

[olishea]

yes