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

fredo6 · 14 Oct 2015, 18:00

Good idea. Thanks
Actully Curviloft needs some refresh to be more user-friendly.

Fredo

spardacus · 16 Dec 2015, 13:17

Is there any way to resize the control panel in the Sketchup Interface? Even when I lower my screen resolution the Control panel remains rather small - too small to read.

See attachment.

fredo6 · 17 Dec 2015, 14:00

@spardacus said:

Is there any way to resize the control panel in the Sketchup Interface? Even when I lower my screen resolution the Control panel remains rather small - too small to read.

See attachment.

I don't see the attachment.

Unfortunately, there is no solution from the plugin. You may want to have a look at the following thread, where the problem is evoked with some solution.

Fredo

fredo6 · 17 Dec 2015, 14:03

@jclements said:

Request: For lofting along a path, could its prompt read,
"1st Select Lofting Path, thenEdges to be Lofted".
It would help new users or those who haven't used the plugin in a while.

By the way, the latest version (published for SU2016) includes a status and tooltip to indicate the order of selection.

Fredo

JClements · 17 Dec 2015, 15:04

Thanks.

derei · 5 Jan 2016, 17:05

Curviloft is creating strange looking geometry on Single F-Spline Curve Mode. Can't figure out why.
I would appreciate any idea why this is happening.
Thank you.

Please see attached image and skp file.

curviloft.skp

fredo6 · 5 Jan 2016, 18:01

Derei,

There is a bug / limitation for close-loop contours with F-Spline. It certainly deserves a fix.

Might be the same for B-Spline with close-loop by the way.

Fredo

derei · 5 Jan 2016, 18:20

@fredo6 said:

Derei,

There is a bug / limitation for close-loop contours with F-Spline. It certainly deserves a fix.

Might be the same for B-Spline with close-loop by the way.

Fredo

After MANY tries I was able to fix it. I cut the loop in two, deleted the last segment (on the part whith the glitch), then I mirrored it to make it again closed loop. After doing the same to all tree loops, the skinning went well. Can't understand why. What was different in the newly made curve...

Because I tried before only to delete the two segments (on both side of symmetry plane) and redraw them... but that didn't fix the problem. Only completely deleting half and mirroring it after redrawing the segment helped.

fredo6 · 5 Jan 2016, 18:40

Glad you found a workaround.

Actually, closing splines 'nicely' is not so easy, and FSpline is somehow special, home-made. So I need to adjust the method.

Fredo

kaas · 5 Jan 2016, 21:47

@derei: I never close loops but always work with two halves that I group after the both lofts are done. Works quite nicely.

Einstein · 3 Apr 2016, 22:11

Thank you! If I could use only one plugin in SU, that would be Curviloft

AcesHigh · 2 Jun 2016, 21:15

any idea what is causing this?

Dave R · 2 Jun 2016, 21:19

Have you installed fresh versions of both Curviloft AND LibFredo6?

AcesHigh · 3 Jun 2016, 13:23

@dave r said:

Have you installed fresh versions of both Curviloft AND LibFredo6?

Yes. Although in my memory I had Curviloft already installed, I was not finding it anywhere. So maybe I did not installed it before on Sketchup 15.

So I installed from the Sketchucation Store Curviloft, it didn´t work (already showed that message). Then I installed the last LibFredo. No change.

Dave R · 3 Jun 2016, 13:45

Perhaps you have some residual files from an older version. I would suggest going to the Plugins folder using the Sketchucation Plugin store tool. Delete any files and folders you find related to both Curviloft and LibFredo6. Make sure there's nothing left. Quit SketchUp. Then open it again and using the SCF Plugin Store tool, reinstall both.

TIG · 3 Jun 2016, 13:54

You also need to restart SketchUp to effect the changes to Fredo's newly installed extensions and/or updated Lib...

Bisectrix · 11 Jun 2016, 13:17

Hi,

I got this error message when re-starting SU after having Curviloft installed:

"You must install LibFredo6 version 6.9 or higher to run Fredo6_Curviloft"

LibFredo6 is installed correctly. Another Plugin, e.g. Bezier Spline is running without any such error message during starting SU.

Maybe anyone could help me how to fix it?

Regards,

AcesHigh · 13 Jun 2016, 13:32

can't find Curviloft at the plugins folder.

there are 4 files with "curvi" name there... all of them related to "curvishear". Is it the same thing?

edit: ok, the problem was that Sketchucation Store showed me one folder as my plugins install folder, while those two plugins were in another folder.

As you can see on my screenshot of the problem, there is a plugins folder at "C:/Users/AcesHigh/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/" and another at "C:/ProgramData/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/"

Error Loading File Fredo6_Curviloft.rb
Error: #<ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)>
C:/Users/AcesHigh/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_!LibFredo6.rb:308:in top_load' C:/ProgramData/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_Curviloft.rb:29:in module:Fredo6'
C:/ProgramData/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_Curviloft.rb:26:in `<top (required)>'

Analyzing better this, it seems Curviloft is looking for the Fredo6 Library at AppData, while in truth it´s located at ProgramData.

AcesHigh · 13 Jun 2016, 14:37

well, ok, so I deleted LibFredo from the AppData folder, leaving the only version installed at ProgramData.

Now all Fredo6 plugins bugged. Except Curviloft, which now is working...

It seems I need to do the inverse: install all Fredo plugins, including Curviloft, at AppData.

EDIT

Ok, it turns out I can´t install at the default plugins folder. no permissions. Following all the instructions available here at the site did not help. I just can´t change the permissions for the folder. Options greyed-out. Tried to take ownership. No luck.

So I installed two versions of LibFredo6. One using the automatic Sketchucation Store installer at Program Data folder.

The other I installed MANUALLY at the main plugins folder, using RBZ extension, so previous Fredo plugins installed there would work.

Now everything is working again and I do not get the Error Message.

Solved? NO!!!

JUst can´t find Curviloft anywhere. No toolbar (nor toolbar available at "view/toolbars"). Did not find it either at Plugins or the Tools drop down window...

EDIT:

solved, installing Curviloft MANUALLY (RBZ) worked.

robertWan · 16 Jun 2016, 21:44

What am I doing wrong?
At the beginning of the film is not formed skin.
http://www.screencast.com/t/aZEj6Qsq
SU8, Win7.

Robert