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    • M Offline
      Mvmcneil
      last edited by

      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

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      • cottyC Offline
        cotty
        last edited by

        @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 ... πŸ˜’ πŸ˜’ πŸ˜’

        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.

        my SketchUp gallery

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        • Dave RD Offline
          Dave R
          last edited by

          @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 ... πŸ˜’ πŸ˜’ πŸ˜’

          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.

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          • Dave RD Offline
            Dave R
            last edited by

            @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?

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            • M Offline
              Mvmcneil
              last edited by

              @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

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              • Dave RD Offline
                Dave R
                last edited by

                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?

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                • M Offline
                  Mvmcneil
                  last edited by

                  @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.

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                  • jgbJ Offline
                    jgb
                    last edited by

                    @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.


                    jgb

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                    • BoxB Offline
                      Box
                      last edited by

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


                      Curvi.JPG

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                      • Dave RD Offline
                        Dave R
                        last edited by

                        It works fine for me, too.

                        It doesn't need to be a closed loop.


                        lines-test~.skp

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                        • J Offline
                          jasonotero247
                          last edited by

                          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
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                          • Dave RD Offline
                            Dave R
                            last edited by

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

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                              jasonotero247
                              last edited by

                              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.

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                              • D Offline
                                daloop
                                last edited by

                                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.

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                                • fredo6F Offline
                                  fredo6
                                  last edited by

                                  @daloop,

                                  Could you post an exmaple of the error traces (there is the button in the temporary window to export the trace file).

                                  Thanks very much

                                  Fredo

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                                  • D Offline
                                    daloop
                                    last edited by

                                    @fredo6 said:

                                    Could you post an exmaple of the error traces (there is the button in the temporary window to export the trace file).

                                    Thanks for your support.

                                    Sorry, but I can't find any buttons on the window:
                                    CurviloftTemporary.PNG

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                                    • fredo6F Offline
                                      fredo6
                                      last edited by

                                      Then, could you post the model you are working on.

                                      Thanks

                                      Fredo

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                                      • D Offline
                                        daloop
                                        last edited by

                                        @fredo6 said:

                                        Then, could you post the model you are working on.

                                        OK, here we go:
                                        Bezier12.zip

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                                        • fredo6F Offline
                                          fredo6
                                          last edited by

                                          @daloop

                                          Curviloft does not know how to skin continuous loops. You should use TGI3d for that (or maybe Soap Skin & Bubble).

                                          With Curviloft Skinning, you need to cut the contour into 4 pieces. This can be achieved by creating small breaker segments as shown in the picture.

                                          Daloop - Beizer12.png

                                          Then, you can skin the shape.
                                          Daloop - Bezier12.skp

                                          Fredo

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                                          • D Offline
                                            daloop
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi Fredo,

                                            @fredo6 said:

                                            Curviloft does not know how to skin continuous loops. You should use TGI3d for that (or maybe Soap Skin & Bubble).

                                            With Curviloft Skinning, you need to cut the contour into 4 pieces. This can be achieved by creating small breaker segments as shown in the picture.

                                            Thanks again.
                                            To see if I got it right: If the tool stops working and I only get the temporary window, I have to break up the curve.
                                            May I humbly suggest a future version of Curviloft that behaves a bit more gracefully?

                                            Attached is a lofted version I did last week. It is much more along the lines I need, as it is less concave than yours. It could be, though, that I broke the curve by lofting another, adjacent surface. But not into more than 2 pieces.
                                            Loft13.zip
                                            Any idea how to control the concavity? I can't change the Bezier curves, as they have real-world constraints.
                                            I did try Soap Skin & Bubble but I like the Curviloft surface better.

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