BeizerSpline - Latest version (obsolete)

fredo6 · 11 Dec 2007, 21:26

Edit 19 Oct 08: I released a comprehensive version of BezierSpline,version 1.2, which includes this extension. It is advised to refere to the following post:
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=13563#p100509

The latest version of Bezierspline is now published on Crai Ruby Depot
http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/Newest_scripts.html

It includes:

Classic Bezier curve, Cubic Bezier, Uniform B-Spline and Polylines
Creation, Edition, insertion and deeletion of control points, curve closing, etc....
A tool bar is available
Better Mac compatibility (I still need a Mac User to confirm)
Language translation available in English, French, German and Hungarian
Some documentation, mostly in english

On language translation, I am still missing some languages. So if anyone speaking Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, etc... wishes to help, here attached is the file containing the strings to be translated. Just do the translation, I will take care of the integration. Even better, if anyone is willing to translate the quickcard (1,5 pages), also attached as MS Word file. Thanks in advance.

Text file containing strings to be translated

Quick reference manual (1.5 page) to be translated thanks

Gaieus · 12 Dec 2007, 06:12

Thanks, Fredo...

And sorry - I still owe you with the translation of some lines of code...
It always comes to my mind when I'm in a hurry (like now I have to leave for work...)

jenujacob · 12 Dec 2007, 11:42

wow! its like splines on steroids! beautiful work!!!

Edson · 12 Dec 2007, 15:51

hi, fredo

at long last i have done the translation to portuguese you requested (see attached file). check it out and let me know if you need any changes.

and thanks for the updated version.

bzstring_POR.txt

boofredlay · 12 Dec 2007, 20:16

Very nice, thank you.

gata · 23 Dec 2007, 02:49

Thank you for the toolbar. A piece of work like this deserves some pictorial button real estate in the menu area.

Gjenio · 26 Dec 2007, 15:46

Thank you for this wonderful script, Fredo. It's great. Would be amzing if the function of this script would be combined with that of weld.rb and skin.rb into one single script in order to improve the modelling capabilities of sketchup.
thanks again and go head with your work

Fletch · 29 Dec 2007, 19:16

Fredo6,
This is really a great script you've done, thanks for sharing

I have always dreamed of a polyline tool that works in SU like it does in ACAD... in ACAD the polyline is forced to stay in the plane of the axis you are using... there is a 3DPolyline tool in ACAD that works very much like the one you've provided w/ your bezier curve tool.

So one tiny request (hopefully tiny) is there a way you could, after selecting the first point for the polyline tool, one could right-click and choose 'lock Z axis' and in this way it would draw all other points forcing them to match the exact elevation of the initial point? (This would be very handy for 'tracing' in plan view over the top of difficult geometry that one cannot seem to close/create a face from no matter what one does.)

ken · 29 Dec 2007, 21:48

@fletch said:

Fredo6,
This is really a great script you've done, thanks for sharing

I have always dreamed of a polyline tool that works in SU like it does in ACAD... in ACAD the polyline is forced to stay in the plane of the axis you are using... there is a 3DPolyline tool in ACAD that works very much like the one you've provided w/ your bezier curve tool.

So one tiny request (hopefully tiny) is there a way you could, after selecting the first point for the polyline tool, one could right-click and choose 'lock Z axis' and in this way it would draw all other points forcing them to match the exact elevation of the initial point? (This would be very handy for 'tracing' in plan view over the top of difficult geometry that one cannot seem to close/create a face from no matter what one does.)

I also do some tracing over PDF documents/drawings that I have turned into jpg’s. After scaling I put a rectangle face group aligned at the axis I want over the drawing, make the material, usually the color yellow, almost transparent and do the trace on the face, never wondering off into space.

Ken

fredo6 · 30 Dec 2007, 07:57

@fletch said:

So one tiny request (hopefully tiny) is there a way you could, after selecting the first point for the polyline tool, one could right-click and choose 'lock Z axis' and in this way it would draw all other points forcing them to match the exact elevation of the initial point? (This would be very handy for 'tracing' in plan view over the top of difficult geometry that one cannot seem to close/create a face from no matter what one does.)

The option exists actually. When you draw a curve the default behavior is to force all points on the plane defined by the first 3 points (cursor is a black square). However, if you press the Up Arrow (i.e. blue axis), the points of the curve will be forced on the horizontal plane defined by the first point (cursor is a blue square). This works as well for the 2 other axis planes.

Fletch · 30 Dec 2007, 15:15

well... hmm..
I was all excited and tried it... but what happens is when I select a point that is above the z plane I'm working on, it seems to align with it, but really it draws it off in the distance. (i'm not drawing in plan view, but in 3D) now it may work ok if I'm looking in pure plan view... but it doesn't work the way I was hoping.

nevertheless, it's a beautiful thing, I don't want to pester you about it. I was just curious if we could finally have a Pline tool like ACAD's.

Jorgensen · 3 Jul 2008, 06:15

Is it possoble to connect two Cubic BeizerSplines ?

Thanks

fredo6 · 3 Jul 2008, 17:25

@jorgensen said:

Is it possoble to connect two Cubic BeizerSplines ?

Not really. But this is a good idea.

Jorgensen · 3 Jul 2008, 18:25

Would be a nice feature

And an method to add controlpoints at specific places (don't think it's possible right now ?)
ups - doubleclick - sorry

Is it possible to enter a value for the distance to move a controlpoint ?
Or even better - make it possible to click on a point and be able to enter it's z-axe value.

Btw - this is a fantastic tool when creating paths for animations