Tubes on grid - ruby?

artmusicstudio

hello ,
maybe someone can help:

i crated a net with "sope & bubble" ruby

in skp 8 two things don't work

a. with quadface-tools i cannot select 1 contiuous line in 1 direction ( _____+)

b. does anybody know a ruby, which would make all edges of this net to tubes (like "tube along path , means with radius and / or form-selection", but ALL edges in BOTH directions?

thanx in advance for ideas

stan

massimo

I don't have quadface-tools so i don't know. For the tubes you can try this plugin.

Dave R

You could use TIG's Extrude Edges by Rails to Lattice in his Extrusion Tools set to make the grid and get quads instead of triangles. Then you could use his Extrude Edges by Face in the same set to make the tubes.

artmusicstudio

@dave r said:

You could use TIG's Extrude Edges by Rails to Lattice in his Extrusion Tools set to make the grid and get quads instead of triangles. Then you could use his Extrude Edges by Face in the same set to make the tubes.

hi dave, also thanx, i will try this method too, since here also experiments are possible, great. !!!

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@massimo said:

I don't have quadface-tools so i don't know. For the tubes you can try this plugin.

@massimo said:

I don't have quadface-tools so i don't know. For the tubes you can try this plugin.
hey, thanx a lot - this tube-thing is exactly , what i needed.
THANK YOU !!!!!

stan

thomthom

QuadFace Tools require the mesh to be compatible. The diagonals needs to be set to not cast any shadows - then QT will recognize them as diagonals.

Didier Bur

Hi,
My "lines2tubes" plugin should do it as well
Here: http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=226