[Plugin][$] RoundCorner - v3.4a - 31 Mar 24

Tony2015 · 27 Sept 2015, 13:40

thx fredo

bac9-flcl · 11 Oct 2015, 12:30

Is it possible to fix the chamfer process failing on such a corner?

It's pretty much impossible to avoid places like those in serious quad-based hardsurface modeling, and other chamfering implementations (in 3ds Max, Maya, etc.) never had issues with topology like that, so I'm not sure if anything really prevents proper chamfering here. Typically, corners like those are simply resolved like this:

fredo6 · 11 Oct 2015, 20:54

Not possible with the current algorithm.

Would require another technique, which I may implement one of these days.

Fredo

bac9-flcl · 13 Oct 2015, 11:06

Thanks for the info!

While at it, can you take a look at this improvement? It would be an enormous help for users inserting edges into n-gons to control triangulation, and to users with quad-based geometry or otherwise unavoidable coplanar face sequences:

Guig2000 · 18 Oct 2015, 13:07

this plugin helped me previously, so, thanks for that, fredo.
But well it don't like curves at all even at 100 000 scale and despite that in this sample, the offset is much smaller than my requirement, I had overlaps everywhere.

Also a good enhancement could be to be able to have multi-offsets capability in a selection.

pegaze · 16 Nov 2015, 21:17

hi everyone,

i just run that plugin and after generating geometry, the model became a single part, i'm not able to select a face, if i try to select a face or anything else, the model is all selected ... is it always like that or may i miss something ?

i also dont see any line on the edges.

thanks for your answers.

Dave R · 16 Nov 2015, 21:50

It depends on the settings you've chosen. If you choose to smooth/soften the edges, then you'll get that behavior. But you can choose not to soften the edges and then you'll be able to select a single face. Or you could turn on Hidden Geometry and select individual faces even with the edges softened.

pegaze · 16 Nov 2015, 21:56

Great !! Thanks a lot, it's now working well

Wookbert · 23 Nov 2015, 22:56

Have you ever noticed the tiny size of RoundCorner control bar on a MacBook Retina? (MBPr 13" running 10.11.1 or any other Mac OS X version)? See attachment.

Any idea how to solve this?

indrifitrian6 · 29 Nov 2015, 08:00

where i can find the download link button?

TIG · 30 Nov 2015, 13:09

@indrifitrian6 said:

where i can find the download link button?
Look in the SketchUcation PluginStore - link in menu above...
Use the page's Search tool to find the entry, it it's not immediately seen...

fredo6 · 1 Dec 2015, 15:55

@wookbert said:

Have you ever noticed the tiny size of RoundCorner control bar on a MacBook Retina? (MBPr 13" running 10.11.1 or any other Mac OS X version)? See attachment.

Any idea how to solve this?

There is nothing that can be done in scripts for high resolution screens under Sketchup.

It might be that SU2016 has improved the situation
otherwise, if you go to Window > LibFredo6 Settings... > Default Parameters..., you should find a check box about Retina. It should double the size of the buttons. However, there is not garantee that the character size would follow.

Fredo

Wookbert · 1 Dec 2015, 21:54

@fredo6: Wasn't aware of the Retina check box. It helps a bit, the text however still is too small to be read and edited conveniently.

fredo6 · 2 Dec 2015, 12:01

@wookbert said:

@fredo6: Wasn't aware of the Retina check box. It helps a bit, the text however still is too small to be read and edited conveniently.

The logic of font size vs screen resolution is not accessible from the Ruby API.

However, you may want to read this thread, where other Mac users are discussing potential solutions.

Fredo

gregoiregentil · 14 Dec 2015, 06:33

Bonjour! I don't manage to get round corners for this design (http://imgur.com/kYQ9ITf

What am I doing wrong? Here is the file: http://www.filedropper.com/casing-v1

I'm running the latest of Fredo6 and round corners on Sketchup 8.

Dave R · 15 Dec 2015, 10:58

In your screenshot you show the radius of the rounding (called Offset) as 0.1 mm. That's incredibly small. Try a reasonable value for the size of the object.

TIG · 15 Dec 2015, 11:00

Yes, as Dave says, SketchUp itself [and by connection its Plugins] can't cope with dimensions with tiny dimensions [<=1/1000"]
So try something a bit bigger...

gregoiregentil · 15 Dec 2015, 16:37

Regarding my previous post with an error while trying to create a round corner for a kind of dome, yes, I tried much bigger values for the offset but it was the same problem, nothing happened when I click generate.

I figured out that the culprit was the arcs at the base of the geometry. If I replace the arcs by straight lines, the plugin can generate something. I understand how it could be challenging for a plugin to generate rounded corners when you have a circle or arc at the base. And if the arc is converted to successive small lines, it's even more challenging and it will push you to have a very small offset.

So I will most likely stay with straight lines at the base. My question becomes more now: is there a way to have different offset for different lines during the same single rounded corner generation. Because you might want to have two different values for 3 lines that intersect so I don't think that you can do it sequentially.

william0j · 30 Dec 2015, 00:03

Does this plugin support SU16?

ronagoldberg · 31 Dec 2015, 19:41

Hi,
I love this tool! It saves me a lot of time and is very powerful.

I have one question. If I use the tool to round the edges of a cube for example and then use another tool to cut a shape out of the cube I get parts of the faces missing. If i repair them and cut another shape out of the cube the faces open up again.

How can I stop that from happening?

Thanks,
Ron