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

iheartpi · 10 Oct 2013, 15:03

Awesome plugin! You know what I am thinking. I'll draw lines on my friends face, take a snapshot, using the snapshot as reference draw the lines in sketchup, then curviloft it

uniflipp · 12 Oct 2013, 23:17

@antonio555 said:

Hi. I use Curviloft 1.2 d. It works good, but I see the error every time, when I start work in my ScetchUp 8.

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::T6

How can I improve this?
Thank You.

Be sure to extract the folder CURVILOFT_Dir_12 into the plugins folder. I extracted the *.rb files straight into plugins at first and got the same errors.

woodmaster2013 · 13 Oct 2013, 02:50

I just install curviloft plug in and I cant see in my sketchup window. Any comments please? im a newbie here. Thank you admin ...

Mvmcneil · 13 Oct 2013, 03:33

I am testing a lofting workflow on simple geometry and Sketchup keeps crashing when trying to loft simple lines.

The process is this:
Draw a line
copy 4 times some distance
move 3 lines vertically up some to distance
select each line in sequence left to right
run curviloft

The tool activates then hangs sketchup. If I loft arcs or other shapes it seems to work fine.

I am using Sketchup 8 and Sketchup2013 on OSX 10.8.5. Both seem to be affected.

Thanks,

Mike

cotty · 13 Oct 2013, 08:25

@woodmaster2013 said:

I just install curviloft plug in and I cant see in my sketchup window. Any comments please? im a newbie here. Thank you admin ...

Some more infos woudl help us to help you (how did you install it, ...)

@unknownuser said:

select each line in sequence left to right
run curviloft

Try it the other way round: run curviloft and afterwards, select the lines in the right order.

Dave R · 13 Oct 2013, 11:23

@woodmaster2013 said:

I just install curviloft plug in and I cant see in my sketchup window. Any comments please? im a newbie here. Thank you admin ...

As cotty says, more information would be useful. I expect you've not installed it correctly and/or you didn't bother to install the required LibFredo6 files.

Dave R · 13 Oct 2013, 11:26

@unknownuser said:

I am testing a lofting workflow on simple geometry and Sketchup keeps crashing when trying to loft simple lines.

The process is this:
Draw a line
copy 4 times some distance
move 3 lines vertically up some to distance
select each line in sequence left to right
run curviloft

The tool activates then hangs sketchup. If I loft arcs or other shapes it seems to work fine.

I am using Sketchup 8 and Sketchup2013 on OSX 10.8.5. Both seem to be affected.

Thanks,

Mike

How about posting an example SKP file of what you tried to describe?

Mvmcneil · 13 Oct 2013, 21:13

@dave r said:

@unknownuser said:

I am testing a lofting workflow on simple geometry and Sketchup keeps crashing when trying to loft simple lines.

The process is this:
Draw a line
copy 4 times some distance
move 3 lines vertically up some to distance
select each line in sequence left to right
run curviloft

The tool activates then hangs sketchup. If I loft arcs or other shapes it seems to work fine.

I am using Sketchup 8 and Sketchup2013 on OSX 10.8.5. Both seem to be affected.

Thanks,

Mike

How about posting an example SKP file of what you tried to describe?

The file is not complicated is it only 5 lines and nothing more and it is a fresh file just after Sketchup starts. This is created in Sketchup 8.

I did try as Cotty suggested above to run Curviloft then select the lines. It worked and didn't crash Sketchup, but other geometry seems to work without running Curviloft first.

Mike.

lines-test.skp

Dave R · 13 Oct 2013, 21:18

It may not be complicated but you don't describe which direction you copied the lines or how far. why would you even want to use Curviloft of those lines? What sort of result are you expecting?

Mvmcneil · 13 Oct 2013, 21:34

@dave r said:

It may not be complicated but you don't describe which direction you copied the lines or how far. why would you even want to use Curviloft of those lines? What sort of result are you expecting?

I am using a workflow process that is not uncommonly used in Rhino to connect two planes or surfaces without using arcs. I am trying to use simple geometry as a test first before it would be used later on a more complex model. I like to test things like this out on simple models before I try incorporate it into my modeling process, and I noticed this was causing sketchup to freeze on OSX. I am not sure if the same behavior happens in Windows as I am not at work to try it in that environment.

Mike.

jgb · 14 Oct 2013, 16:24

@unknownuser said:

Draw a line
copy 4 times some distance
move 3 lines vertically up some to distance
select each line in sequence left to right
run curviloft

The tool activates then hangs sketchup. If I loft arcs or other shapes it seems to work fine.

Thanks,

Mike

I do not understand what you think CL will do with a set of unconnected lines. CL needs a closed perimeter of some sort to create the intervening mesh. With 5 parallel unconnected lines, CL can do nothing. I tried it and got the usual CL "I'm stumped" color codes. It did NOT hang my system.

Box · 14 Oct 2013, 16:30

Selected the correct way it creates this, but the wrong way freezes SU.

Dave R · 14 Oct 2013, 16:38

It works fine for me, too.

It doesn't need to be a closed loop.

lines-test~.skp

jasonotero247 · 22 Oct 2013, 13:44

hello,

I autoinstalled Libfredo 5.2 and curviloft using skecthucation pluginstore 2.0. But now I am having trouble locating them in sketchup in order to begin using them. Can anyone help. Thank you.

Jason

Dave R · 22 Oct 2013, 14:43

Did you read the first post in this thread? It tells you where to look.

jasonotero247 · 22 Oct 2013, 20:02

I did look under the tools tab and there is nothing there.
I am using Bootcamp, Windows 7, SU 2013 and using the sketchucation plugin store to autoinstall the plugins.

daloop · 27 Oct 2013, 09:44

Hi everybody,

I have the same problem as Missy_X a few posts above.
Whenever I activate one of the Curviloft functions in SU2013 (Windows 7, 64Bit), the "Curviloft: Temporary" window pops up immediately. I don't get the usual Fredo-Bar on top of the editor and the plug-in does not work. I can select edges behind the popup, but there's no preview and no lofting.

The Ruby console shows nothing at all. I do have all the latest versions (including libFredo 6.5.2) installed.

This is going on for a few days now. The plugins used to work fine. My current workflow relies on setting up 3D-Bezier curves and skinning them with Curviloft.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.