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    • K Offline
      kwistenbiebel
      last edited by

      Wow Chris,
      Thank you for sharing this ruby.
      That is a great contribution!

      [EDIT]: the ruby doesn't seem to work on my PC. updating the FF seems broken.
      I must be doing something wrong....(I tried it on a sphere)

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      • R Offline
        remus
        last edited by

        cheers chris, just had a really quick go with it and it seems to work fine for me. Thanks for all the work youve already put into this.

        http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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          Daniel S
          last edited by

          Fantastic script Chris!!!

          Hope that somebody pick it up and help with the UI.

          It works very fast!! To show interactively the deformation of the group in wireframe mode (like in Fredo6´s Shear) would be a good feature... perhaps will go more slow.. but will be a time saver because you don´t have to close the group, make a right click and select Update FFD and then wait to see if is the deformation you wanted and then make all the process again to fix it.

          This is other ruby that looks like a SU7 feature 😍.

          Thank You!!!!!!

          Daniel S

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          • pilouP Offline
            pilou
            last edited by

            impressive task 😎
            Works fine except the control points stay on the screen after deformation ❓

            Frenchy Pilou
            Is beautiful that please without concept!
            My Little site :)

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            • boofredlayB Offline
              boofredlay
              last edited by

              @unknownuser said:

              impressive task 😎
              Works fine except the control points stay on the screen after deformation ❓

              That is the new group created by the FFD. You can simply delete or hide it when done with it.

              This is great! Thanks for this script.

              http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

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              • boofredlayB Offline
                boofredlay
                last edited by

                Here is a quickie test. I drew a circle with 24 segments and copy/push/pull. Then I ran the script and moved the points.
                This is one more step towards organics indeed. 👍


                FFD.jpg

                http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

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                • pilouP Offline
                  pilou
                  last edited by

                  @unknownuser said:

                  That is the new group created by the FFD. You can simply delete or hide it when done with it.

                  THX: very simple indeed ! ☀

                  Frenchy Pilou
                  Is beautiful that please without concept!
                  My Little site :)

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                  • K Offline
                    krash88
                    last edited by

                    It looks great in it's current form, but I get this error in the console... Maybe I'm doing something wrong...

                    Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method definition' for #<Sketchup::Group:0xbec0960>> C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SketchyFFD.rb:224:in analizeLattice'
                    C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SketchyFFD.rb:60:in updateFFD' C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SketchyFFD.rb:13 C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SketchyFFD.rb:13:in call'

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                    • Mike LuceyM Offline
                      Mike Lucey
                      last edited by

                      Thanks Chris, this could really be a useful Ruby for SketchUp.
                      I hope someone picks it up (as you say) and copper fastens it.
                      Even if they don't I imagine you will in your own good time
                      finalise the Script 😉

                      Mike

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                      • C Offline
                        CPhillips
                        last edited by

                        @krash88 said:

                        It looks great in it's current form, but I get this error in the console... Maybe I'm doing something wrong...

                        Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method definition' for #<Sketchup::Group:0xbec0960>> C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SketchyFFD.rb:224:in analizeLattice'
                        C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SketchyFFD.rb:60:in updateFFD' C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SketchyFFD.rb:13 C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SketchyFFD.rb:13:in call'

                        Ooops! I fixed it and updated the script in the original post. Kwistenbiebel this is probably the same bug you were seeing.

                        Chris

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                          CPhillips
                          last edited by

                          @unknownuser said:

                          I can't get this script to work. Nothing happens.
                          I create a sphere, group it, right-click and do 3x3 FFD, enter the new group with Construction Points, move some to another position, exit the group, right-click the sphere group and choose Update FFD. Nothing happens.

                          Can you open the ruby console and see if it is printing any errors?

                          Chris

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                          • K Offline
                            kwistenbiebel
                            last edited by

                            ...exactly the same here. I see no errors in the ruby panel though.

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                              CPhillips
                              last edited by

                              @kwistenbiebel said:

                              ...exactly the same here. I see no errors in the ruby panel though.

                              Wow. I tried it on 2 different machines and it works. Maybe you are using a Mac? Altho I don't see why that would make any difference..

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                                kwistenbiebel
                                last edited by

                                Does the plugin in any means uses web based 'action script' or 'javascript' as I had trouble before with corrupt Iexplorer settings?
                                (I refer to web panel based plugins like Skindigo that failed in the past on my pc due to 'script blockers' )

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                                • boofredlayB Offline
                                  boofredlay
                                  last edited by

                                  It is working fine on my home machine as well as my work machine. Both pc on xp. One new, the other 8 years old. 😲

                                  http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

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                                    CPhillips
                                    last edited by

                                    @kwistenbiebel said:

                                    Does the plugin in any means uses web based 'action script' or 'javascript' as I had trouble before with corrupt Iexplorer settings?
                                    (I refer to web panel based plugins like Skindigo that failed in the past on my pc due to 'script blockers' )

                                    No other scripts at all. Just pure ruby.

                                    Hrmm. Very strange. Try doing a 2x2 FFD on a simple box. With the ruby console open in case of errors.

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                                    • Dave RD Offline
                                      Dave R
                                      last edited by

                                      Very cool script. Thank you.

                                      I do seem to being doing something wrong with it though. (Leave it to me to break it. 😒 ) See the attached screen grab.

                                      I drew a sphere centered on the blue axis and above the ground plane. After moving a single point marked at the top and updating, the egg moved off to where it is now. What did I do wrong?
                                      Dave screws it up.

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                                      • K Offline
                                        krash88
                                        last edited by

                                        @cphillips said:

                                        @krash88 said:

                                        It looks great in it's current form, but I get this error in the console... Maybe I'm doing something wrong...

                                        Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method definition' for #<Sketchup::Group:0xbec0960>> C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SketchyFFD.rb:224:in analizeLattice'
                                        C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SketchyFFD.rb:60:in updateFFD' C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SketchyFFD.rb:13 C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 6/Plugins/SketchyFFD.rb:13:in call'

                                        Ooops! I fixed it and updated the script in the original post. Kwistenbiebel this is probably the same bug you were seeing.

                                        Chris

                                        It works great now! thanks for the fix!

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                                          CPhillips
                                          last edited by

                                          @dave r said:

                                          Very cool script. Thank you.

                                          I do seem to being doing something wrong with it though. (Leave it to me to break it. 😒 ) See the attached screen grab.

                                          I drew a sphere centered on the blue axis and above the ground plane. After moving a single point marked at the top and updating, the egg moved off to where it is now. What did I do wrong?
                                          [attachment=0:wa4rvigs]<!-- ia0 -->FFD1.JPG<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:wa4rvigs]

                                          It looks like you did a "Update FFD" without first closing the control point group.

                                          Chris

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                                          • Dave RD Offline
                                            Dave R
                                            last edited by

                                            Yup. That's what I did alright. 😳

                                            Thanks for the help.

                                            Dave

                                            Etaoin Shrdlu

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