[Plugin] Round Edge - v1.0 (by Bezier)

3DModellers

Hi Fredo,
I got it.. I got it to work.

Few days ago I had problems running podium renderer in sketchup. Somebody suggested that that removing 'matchbox' plugin might solve the problem. And it had worked.

i did the same this time. I removed matchbox again and then 'round edge' worked perfectly.

It means that the problem is with 'matchbox' plugin. Or it could be that I am using some earlier version of matchbox which was not compatible with other plugins.

anyways , thanks.

iam also thankful for all the wonderful work that you and Whatt are doing. I realised that I saved 2 hours of work yesterday simply thru round edge plugin.

Do you have any blog where all your plugins listed?

Thanks
Pritam

Daniel S

@unknownuser said:

With the holdiays, I am just resuming some work on my scripts. Indeed, I will try to fix issues with Round Edge (and maybe develop the spheric / elliptic option).

Fredo, When you say to develop the spheric / elliptic option do you mean something like the attachment image?

That would be a huge improvement

Thank you again for this amazing must-have tool...
Daniel S

free agent

+100 this would be amazing

Gaieus

+101!
It's a cool plugin already now (although has some limitations like the Follow me can also have with concave curves) but a rounded corner (preferably an "option" vs the pointy one) would indeed be a great improvement!

thomthom

@daniel s said:

@unknownuser said:

With the holdiays, I am just resuming some work on my scripts. Indeed, I will try to fix issues with Round Edge (and maybe develop the spheric / elliptic option).

Fredo, When you say to develop the spheric / elliptic option do you mean something like the attachment image?
[attachment=0:1hhs0yf5]roundedges.jpg[/attachment:1hhs0yf5]
That would be a huge improvement

Thank you again for this amazing must-have tool...
Daniel S

How did you do that?

free agent

Bonzai3d...?

jmmad

SU needs and can catch up with bonzai3d
Fredo this ruby + other transformation like twist and bend would be really great.

free agent

Funny(and sad) that Sketchup on version 7 needs to catchup with a beta release... interestingly bonzai 3d shares a render engine with modo (assuming that it has the same render engine as FormZ)

Oaht

Thanks for your superb plugin. This will save a lot of time!!!

BorgMan

It would be great if the Round Edges tool would work like that Bonzai3D image. I've had so much models which use complex shapes that totally effed up when I unleashed the RE tool on them, after which I had to manually retrace the outlines to make them work properly...

gio

@unknownuser said:

Funny(and sad) that Sketchup on version 7 needs to catchup with a beta release... interestingly bonzai 3d shares a render engine with modo (assuming that it has the same render engine as FormZ)

Can you tell me more about this, please?
Do you have a link?
It would really be a great news!

Ciao, Gio

numerobis

http://www.bonzai3d.com/bonzai3d_home.html

(btw. google is your friend )

xrok1

hi fredo, great script once more.
did you ever figure out how to overcome this type of thing?

TeamSDA

Hey Fredo

This is a great script we are having difficulties with its performance due to a high number of edges. We are currently working on how to extrude letters from .dwg files and we want to bevel the edges of the letters but they are made up of many edges and the script gets bogged down with the task.

Thanks
Team SDA

Here is the file we are currently working on.

Logo Tests.jpg

Logo Tests.skp

xrok1

did you try sds on that as you did with the other project?

TeamSDA

Yes but we are having issues with extra lines showing up and the process is a little time consuming. Was hoping for a tool that was a little more simple in it's approach.

Team SDA

xrok1

i think the follow me tool would be your best option there.

xrok1

draw a face on the top edge perpendicular like this:

select top face then followme tool then click on the drawn arc, then close the top face:

fredo6

@teamsda said:

Yes but we are having issues with extra lines showing up and the process is a little time consuming. Was hoping for a tool that was a little more simple in it's approach.

Team SDA

If it is just to round the top and bottom faces, then I suggest you use xrok simple method with Follow me.
RoundEdge is more intended to handle the rounding of corners where you apply it to 3 or more edges.
The current method is not performing fast, I agree. The script was actually experimental and I did not rework on it recently. Obviously, this is not the right tool for a serial usage. Sorry for that.

Fredo

TeamSDA

Thank you all for your input. Looks like the follow me tool will work well for us on simple geometry. We hope that in the future someone will develop a commercial grade bull-nosing and filleting (edge smoothing) script with capabilities similar to what is depicted in the attached video.

Team SDA

Here is what we accomplished using the follow me tool on the edges of the letters. We also found that we could use it to make fillets on the bottom of the letters.

A Bull-nosing plugin with these capabilities would be ideal.