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    [Obsolete] Offset On Surface (v1.0)

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    • urgenU Offline
      urgen
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      Superb! πŸ‘ πŸ˜„

      --pupil forever...------

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      • jujuJ Offline
        juju
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        πŸŽ‰ πŸ‘ 😍 Thanks for creating this and making it publicly available.

        Save the Earth, it's the only planet with chocolate.

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        • PixeroP Offline
          Pixero
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          Thanks, cant wait to try it...

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          • G Offline
            Gjenio
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            Many tanks.
            Expecially for the time you spend to make Sketchup easiest for everyone!
            We all appreciate that!

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            • M Offline
              marne
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              Fantastic! Thank you very, very much. So useful for me too... πŸ˜„

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                a4chitect
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                works in most scenarios! THANKS

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                  ilay7k
                  last edited by

                  i add some: Thank you! πŸ‘ 😍

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                    a4chitect
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                    just went through the documentation and tried few things myself - AMAZING!!!

                    i'm sure only releasing your scripts OOS and JPP implemented into sketchup would justify calling it a v7.0 πŸ˜„

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                    • jujuJ Offline
                      juju
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                      @a4chitect said:

                      i'm sure only releasing your scripts OOS and JPP implemented into sketchup would justify calling it a v7.0 πŸ˜„

                      Now now, don't go and give Google any ideas about slacking off. πŸ˜‰

                      Save the Earth, it's the only planet with chocolate.

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                      • R Offline
                        remus
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                        Good stuff fred, i dont know what more i can add than to say that your plugins feel like fully fledged features in use. Thank you.

                        http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                          kwistenbiebel
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                          This is cool.

                          With all the 'organics' plugins being released lately (FFD,joint pushpull, catmull clark subd, etc...), isn't it time to combine all those plugins into one bigger plugin?

                          Having just one dropdown menu or panel for all these jewels would be a big time saver and much easier to use.

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                            Jorgensen
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                            catmull ?

                            sketchup pro 2016 16.1.1449 64 bit | windows 10 pro | i7-3770k @3.5 GHz | 16gb ram | gtx 780 ti / gtx 980 ti | nvidia driver 368.39

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                              dtrarch
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                              Hi Fred 😍

                              Many thanks again and again.
                              Your scrips are simply the most important and useful
                              produced to date without a doubt.

                              Just what SU should have had in the first place. πŸ˜’
                              Bread and butter tools.
                              What else to say ??

                              dtr

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                                kwistenbiebel
                                last edited by

                                Yes Coen, that's a good trick to use short cut keys.
                                But I meant 'time saver' as it would be easier for noob modelers to pick up one 'organics' plugin than to go browse forums to gather the separate scripts, find out what they do and install them.
                                This is not a crit, just a call to get things streamlined.

                                I can imagine that for a lot of people who don't visit SCF on a daily base like we do, it is easy to miss out on some of the nice scripts.Being able to download them as a package would be nice. Preferably with a shared interface and one tutorial doc ?

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                                • Dave RD Offline
                                  Dave R
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                                  Thank you very much Fredo. This, along with JPP is very useful. Just for fun I did a little demo. Also used the Skin plugin, too. If you're interested, here it is. Sorry about the low resolution.

                                  Etaoin Shrdlu

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                                    huyvuvn
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                                    wonderful !!! many thanks 😍 😍 😍 😍

                                    happiness on the way, not in the destination.

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                                      huyvuvn
                                      last edited by

                                      @unknownuser said:

                                      @kwistenbiebel said:

                                      With all the 'organics' plugins being released lately (FFD,joint pushpull, catmull clark subd, etc...), isn't it time to combine all those plugins into one bigger plugin?

                                      Hi there ,

                                      what's "catmull clark subd" plugin ? I can not find it in this forum, please give me the link , many thanks 😎

                                      happiness on the way, not in the destination.

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                                      • erikBE Offline
                                        erikB
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                                        Fredo, it has all been said allready,
                                        but after trying the script all I can ad is 😍
                                        thanks,
                                        erikB

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                                          JClements
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                                          Fredo:

                                          When I look at the context menu, all but "Generate as Group" seem to report just the opposite of what the tool is doing.... the Yes's should be No's and vice versa.

                                          Anyone else seeingthis?

                                          Regards, John

                                          p.s. Excuse me, I should have begun with, 'incredible scripting and support documentation, I am amazed as I watch it work. Thank you' .

                                          John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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                                          • fredo6F Offline
                                            fredo6
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                                            Thanks to all for your encouragements. I appreciate.

                                            I found a number of bugs in the current version which I will try to fix over the next 10 days, if hopefully I can find some time.

                                            I would also appreciate if you could give some feedback on a few points:

                                            1) Inference of the Red Point: I had the choice to have the Red point follow the surface or stick to a constant line independent from the surface. Because you cannot move the cursor in Ruby, I needed to manage the 'projection' of the mouse cursor, to the surface, but then, it's not easy to use inference vis-a-vis the rest of the model, except for plane surface. So is inference useful for an Offset operation?

                                            2) Enter distance AFTER Offset operation: in most Sketchup tools, you can usually modify again some parameters after you perform the operation. In the case of my tool, this is doable, though not extremely easy, as I would have to use the Sketchup Undo, retrieve the original selection (Undo may create new Faces and Edges objects, not restore the same), and then re-launch the Offset operation. As I am not sure Offset On Surface is to be used frequently and also because the 'retry' can be done manually, I don't know if it is worth trying to address this problem

                                            Finally, I could recycle the work I did for OOS to derive a script 'DrapeOnSurface' that would take a selection of faces and edges on a plane and drape them onto a surface. The SandBox 'Drape' does this, but 'by projection' only. In addition you have to orient the surface more or less in the horizontal plane (as for anything with the Sandbox) and position the component to be draped above. DrapeOnSurface would instead be independent of orientations and positioning, will work by extension, not by projection, allowing to preserve distances and fully drape around for instance a close cylinder. In addition, it can create a group with the generated surface (mould option).

                                            Thanks to all again

                                            Fredo

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