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

AISmebel · 29 Apr 2020, 14:31

Good afternoon. I have a problem with Curviloft and Curvizard plugins.
Perhaps the problem arose after updating LibFredo6.
Reinstalling the plugins did not help.
Delivered an earlier version of LibFredo6, the problem is not fixed.
Here is the link to the video: https://youtu.be/H06P-Fcx0Go

plot-paris · 12 May 2020, 16:59

I have to admit, I didn' read through all posts in this thread.

Has it already been requested to have an "Upright Extrusion" option for the "Loft along Path" tool?

There are plugins out there that can do an upright follow-me operation. But none of them (as far as I know) can morph between two profiles along the way.

Therefore it would be awesome to have this functionality.

WeeDxWackeR · 30 Jun 2020, 15:40

Hey Fredo,

I recently started using curviloft and it worked absolutely great for everything i ever did with it until now...

I'm trying to make a glass rounded swimming pool but for some reason, some edges start moving and others not.

I tried using the move tool to put the edges back where they should be but that ceated a curve that I dont want.

I wish you a great day.

Rayan

rv1974 · 11 May 2021, 07:55

Is there way to govern smoothing angle upon loft creation (inside the plugin)?
Out of the box I got too over-smoothed surface
Thanks

pilou · 11 May 2021, 09:23

Give more Sections ?

rv1974 · 11 May 2021, 10:52

Pilou, I don't mean segmentation, I'm talking about surface smoothing (normals)

JClements · 11 May 2021, 14:58

Have you tried the Soften Edges dialog?

rv1974 · 11 May 2021, 17:00

The upper variant (on the attached picture) made with Soften dialog. My humble request is to get this result automatically (like profile builder does) without manual polishing afterwards.

jgb · 11 May 2021, 21:05

Turn "Show Hidden Geometry" on. Then using the "shift+Ctrl+erase tool" select the lines you want unsmoothed and unsoftened. You can play with combinations to get smooth unsoft or soft unsmoothed lines and that will take care of your over smoothed surfaces.

Then turn show hidden geometry off.

You can also select any line(s) and change the smooth or soft or hidden attribute in Entity Info.

rv1974 · 12 May 2021, 04:15

Again, I suggested kind of more intelligent smoothing (similar to follow me or profile builder) IN plugin itself
Edit: extra pic added to illustrate the problem

jgb · 12 May 2021, 16:17

The top back edge is also smoothed. If you unsmooth just that line and the one below (in the back) then the top will not be over smoothed.

The only other way you can get less smoothed top surface is to create a small smoothed radius on the top & bottom back edges. The size of the radius will control how much smoothing you do want.

GrahamHowells · 10 Jun 2021, 07:29

Have used your plugins for years. Now I can't load them.
Installation of Fredo6_Curiloft; Freddo6_FredoTools; Freddo6_Joint PushPull;
Subfolder missing.
Tried to install roundcorners from extension manager but it failed.

Tried to install LibFredo6 11.8a. received error message:
“undefined method ‘loadRBS’ for SCF:Module

Any advice on what I should do.

Dave R · 10 Jun 2021, 11:25

You might try updating the Sketchucation Extension Store installation. https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=SketchUcationTools

GrahamHowells · 11 Jun 2021, 00:33

Tried that, then tried to load Roundcorners and got this result:
UnZip Error: Could not unzip archive.

What next???

TIG · 11 Jun 2021, 08:57

When you say you tried 'to load' RoundCorners, how did you do that ?

There are two main ways...

download its RBZ file and use the SketchUp Extension Manager dialog to Install it...
auto-install it using the SketchUcation ExtensionStore³ dialog - find its entry and click to install.

Also remember that Fredo's tools need his LibFredo installing...

Also remember to restart SketchUp after the installations to ensure everything is synced...

After it's all successfully installed there should be tool-menu entries and toolbars etc...

PS: If you have recently updated your SketchUp installation it must be installed by selecting the downloaded installer's exe file, right-click, context-menu > "Run as administrator", with an existing installation choose 'Repair' when prompted...

Installing Windows apps in any other way, e.g. by double-clicking the exe to 'run' it, can lead to all sorts un unpredictable issues, usually affecting folder permissions etc...
Your normal user-account might have admin-powers but it it is not the same as doing it properly.

It does no harm to do the 'Repair'...

GrahamHowells · 12 Jun 2021, 01:56

Thanks for your help, however i have tried all that.
When I start Sketchup the first notice on screen is
"Installation of Fredo6_Curviloft is probably incorrect. Subfolder is missing."

I press OK and then get the same message for FredoTools; JointPushPull and
"Script ToolsOnSurface is loaded but menus will show up only at next startup of Sketchup."

So I start the program again and exactly the same messages occur.

Tried the autp-install again and got the same message again = "UnZip Error: Could not unzip archive."

I'm running 2020 version of Sketchup.
Cheers
Graham

TIG · 12 Jun 2021, 12:52

The UnZIP error message suggests that the destination folder is not fully writable and SketchUp cannot unzip the RBZ archive into it ?
This can be a typical permissions error when an installation was not done using "Run as administrator"

You have not stated categorically that you have done the installation properly, or repaired it later...

Assuming you have repaired things but it's still not working then can you close SketchUp, and then find your Plugins folder which is in the folder
C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2020\SketchUp\
It's hidden by default, but using its path in Windows Explorer should get you there...
Select the Plugins folder icon, right-click > context-menu > Properties > Security
There will be several Group/user names listed - e.g. SYSTEM, maybe-Unknown [SketchUp?], Your user-name and Administrators etc...
Use the Edit... button on each entry in turn.
The entry's Permissions must be ticked to 'Full Control' > under the Allow column
After fixing all of these OK to save the changes, the changes should ripple down to affect any subfolders/files etc...
Restart SketchUp and try reinstalling LibFredo RBZ and any desired RBZ extensions.
Restart SketchUp to sync everything...

Report back...

GrahamHowells · 13 Jun 2021, 06:57

Thanks very much for helping me out Tig,
Unfortunately I followed all your instruction, turned everything off and restarted, Still have the same issue.
Sorry.
Graham

rv1974 · 13 Jun 2021, 08:19

I had the same Script "XXXX* is loaded but menus will show up only at next startup of Sketchup" nightmare (with all Fredo's plugins I have. Its not related to Admin rights (at least in my case). IIRC installing the latest FredoGhost helped.

TIG · 13 Jun 2021, 11:55

In rare cases there have been reports like this that relate back to a corrupt windows-user-account...

To check this you could try making anew user-account on your computer.
Then install SketchUp for that [run-as-administrator etc].
Then install LibFredo and one of his extensions for that version of SketchUp.

Restart SketchUp and see if the issue is resolved...
If so we then need to look at ways of fixing your original windows-user-account, if possible...
If it's not working then the mystery deepens...

PS: You could also consider running a file-system check on Windows to see if it fixes anything...
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-system-file-checker-in-windows-10-365e0031-36b1-6031-f804-8fd86e0ef4ca
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/use-the-system-file-checker-tool-to-repair-missing-or-corrupted-system-files-79aa86cb-ca52-166a-92a3-966e85d4094e
etc...