[Plugin][WIP][OpenSource] Bezier Surface

thomthom

I believe you could author a toolset like T-spline!

I don't know about that, least not yet. I'm struggling with the math of plain ol' bezier patches. T-Splines is some very clever stuff.

jchau2007

TT,
Please update us as to where you are at with the Bezier Surfae tool development. We are all waiting on this one for a long time. Well let say you are crossing over two franchises, from Google to now Trimble.

thanks,
James

thomthom

Yea, it's been taking a long time. It's been a much bigger project than I'd imagined.

I've done, what I think, is most of the core. I've begun to work on the tools to manipulate the meshes now.

dmatho

Where's the "Super Like" button?

simon le bon

@thomthom said:

Yea, it's been taking a long time. It's been a much bigger project than I'd imagined.

I've done, what I think, is most of the core. I've begun to work on the tools to manipulate the meshes now.

"Courage" Thom! this is going to be a wonderful tool, an indispensable one. May be your "Chef d'oeuvre".

++simon

thomthom

I think it's best if I aim for a more basic first release - then do more continuous smaller updates evolving it.

interior_design

Many thanks Mr. Thomas for the great efforts in providing very useful plugines for SU. I really aspire to have this plugin into geometry application of SU very soon. I know it is a big project that you didn't imagine it would take that much of time, but at least you got an idea now about the remaining percentage of completing this project.

Regards,

thomthom

Bezier Surface is now free and open source!
http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/2014/11/bezier-surface-for-sketchup-is-now-open-source/

pbacot

Woohoo! (where is everyone?). Thanks TT!

unclex

It's really nice!!!!!!!!
But unfortunately， I can only drug out the Purple Grid， cannot double clicked and continued， just showing
Bezier Surface Updating.....
win8.1x64 @SU2015x64 & SU2013， both happened
Should be there any bugs with others plugins？

thomthom

@unclex said:

But unfortunately， I can only drug out the Purple Grid， cannot double clicked and continued， just showing
Bezier Surface Updating.....

Can you share example model or screenshot?
Any errors in the Ruby Console?

jeff hammond

what the? this thing is cool

a question..
is there a way to control the segmentation yet? like, max angle = 5º (or whatever) and anything steeper will break down to two (or more) segments until the maximum mesh angle has been achieved?

Rich O Brien

@jeff

type subdivisions in the VCB

jeff hammond

@rich o brien said:

@jeff

type subdivisions in the VCB

got it. thanks

Rich O Brien

Ur more than welcome.

I imagine you'll get lots of mileage outta this?

jeff hammond

@rich o brien said:

Ur more than welcome.

I imagine you'll get lots of mileage outta this?

probably.. for me, it seems great to quickly mess around with new shape ideas.. like clay in a way..

[edit]
it's the controller (widget, gumball, whatshername) that makes it so fast.

Rich O Brien

The song from Ghost is in my head now.

pbacot

There's a procrastinators beware message... Hand it over!

Glad it's available in the SCF pluginstore.

jeff hammond

@rich o brien said:

The song from Ghost is in my head now.

lucky for me i'm on a super crappy connection right now so i can't be arsed to youtube the scene.

pilou

At least!
Brilliant!
Works on the 2014?
Seems not!
Impossible to valide the second point of the patch!

I have the last TT_lib2

Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method parent' for nil:NilClass> C:/Users/Pilou/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/ChrisP_PutsCompOnFace.rb:21:in definition'
C:/Users/Pilou/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/TT_Lib2/instance.rb:23:in definition' C:/Users/Pilou/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/tt_bezier_surface/bezier_surface.rb:1129:in update_mesh'
C:/Users/Pilou/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/tt_bezier_surface/bezier_surface.rb:159:in update' C:/Users/Pilou/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2014/SketchUp/Plugins/tt_bezier_surface/tool_create_patch.rb:142:in onLButtonUp'