[Obsolete] Joint Push Pull
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Fredo,
I can just add to the rest: you have created a very nice and very usefull ruby. Thank you very much for sharing this with us. I am not an architect but a productdesigner and do a lot with double-curved shapes and surfaces in SU (6-pro), on a mac.
Today, after carefully reading your tutorial (which also is a nice piece of work), I have taken quite some time to play with your ruby and I have tested it with all kind of shapes and surfaces.
First: I am more impressed than I thought I would be. As long as you start with a clean surface, your ruby works without any problem at all. I really went to limits and over. Going over fysical limits creates impossible and unexpected shapes, but your ruby never stopped working.
Second: I can reassure you, your ruby performes without any hesitation on (my) mac.
Third: In your tutorial you mention your ruby might still be a bit slow. To my opinion, your ruby performs oke. Yes, if you start with curves, arcs, ellipses divided in 360 or more segments and create surfaces with 100,000's of edges,faces, instances your ruby needs time. But not more than others. As we all as pro-users know, such's details aren't necessary to create nice shapes in SU.
Fouth: as all tools, also your ruby has its own limits. But, in the 3D-world it is impossible to create a tool that thinks for us. Your ruby is a very usefull tool, makes quite some SU actions easier and much faster to perform. Together with existing SU functionalities (standard and rubies) it enhances the possibilities of my preferred piece of 3D software: SketchUpBy the way:
The number of powerfull and usefull ruby's is increasing rapidly and we have seen some promesing developments almost ready to become available to all of us. If they would all be packed together in nice way, we would already have a nice and powerfull new SU 7 pro. Looking at my SU screen, compaired to beginning 2007, I look at something quite different (and I feel happy about it).
Thanks to you all !!
I start thinking we are making life difficult for all those folks in Boulder, working on a really new SU 7.
What can we expect from them that will really surprice us. Of course, there are still more than enough wishes and expectations, but I am getting more and more curious.Again, Fredo, also you have contributed to my new SU screen.
Many thanks to you and all other great ruby-artist to make this possible. -
not sure what's happening but on my pc JPP seems to have clashed with beziers, either some icons disappear altogether, or the curves cannot be drawn. - i have noticed this before a couple of times while working on the rubymenus thus think the weakness might have more to do with beziers than jpp
EDIT: or it may be me of course!
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Fredo6,
Your new script works in SU5 Thank you, thank you!!!
A couple of minor spelling comments (I have already made these changes in my system.):
- Shouldn't "Extent influence to non-selected neighbors" read "Extend....?
- "Custom Plan..." should read "Custom Plane..."
Edit: I hope you don't mind that I made the above changes to your script on my system.
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...Unfortunately I have former problems...
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@greyhead said:
Fredo, I do think that there is something here that is not consistent with "as if you would also extrude the neighbouring face." See this diagram (plan view of an extruded dodecagon). Notice that the two end extrusions of the five contiguous faces are different. (I did these both on the same dodecagon for simplicity but I get the same result if I do them on separate objects so I don't think there is interference between them.)
Scratching my head here but I don't see an obvious pattern.
Bob
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This abnormal behavior is actually almost 'normal'.
Because the polygon has 12 segments, the angle between the normals of 2 contiguous edges is exactly 30 degree, which is the default value of the Angle of Influence. So depending on the rounding up, some outside faces do influence, some others do not.You should change the value of the Angle of influence to either 29 Degree (to have strict perpendicular borders) or to 31 degrees, to have them all radial.
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Ahhhhh . . . thank you. Bob
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@urgen said:
...Unfortunately I have former problems...
Could you turn on the Ruby Console and see what it says (or does not say)
Thanks
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@unknownuser said:
@urgen said:
...Unfortunately I have former problems...
Could you turn on the Ruby Console and see what it says (or does not say)
Thanks
..Ruby console...
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urgen,
I had the exact same problem until I downloaded Fredo6's SU5 script. Are you sure you've installed the right script?
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@cadfather said:
not sure what's happening but on my pc JPP seems to have clashed with beziers, either some icons disappear altogether, or the curves cannot be drawn. - i have noticed this before a couple of times while working on the rubymenus thus think the weakness might have more to do with beziers than jpp
EDIT: or it may be me of course!
I am not sure it is an interference with JPP, but there were a few bugs in Bezierspline regarding inference, and in some situation it could create the impossibility to position the starting point at the origin.
I made some fixes, and also incorporate the Portuguese translation (many thanks to Edson). Didier just published the new version of Bezierspline on his site today.
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Many Thanks Fredo - will check it out
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Hi all! script works in SU5.0.260.and no works in SU5.0.232.
I have eliminated this problem (instal SU5.0.260) 
thanks all for support., I understand this now...many-many-many thanks to Fredo6 !
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Fredo6,
a big THANKS to you for that script It really fills a big gap in the SU modeling-tools... this one will definitely be used very often.
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Nice work!
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beautiful. thank you for your generosity in sharing!
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Fredo, thank you!
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fredo,
altough we all probably developed are own work arounds over the years, this script is realy usefull and works like a charme. Thanks a lot.
erikB -
Great plugin man! Thanks alot!
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Hi this is great! Is there a way to install this in OS X? I have a new Mac but come from the PC world. I would know how to install it on the PC by navigating to the plugins folder, but not sure how to on a Mac.
Anyone know?
Thanks
M. -
Hi M,
I am not a Mac user, but I believe the folder is here:
Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Google Sketchup 7/Sketchup/plugins
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