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    • charly2008C Offline
      charly2008
      last edited by

      Hi,

      It works normally only with a face and a curve. If you want to use it with a straight line than have look at page 5 of this topic. ThereEcuadorian shows a tutorial video.

      Charly


      2012-01-29_004237.jpg

      He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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      • brookefoxB Offline
        brookefox
        last edited by

        I have a 3d helix as a curve and a circular face, but the results ain't right. Any tips?


        follow me and rotate -1.JPG


        follow me and rotate -2.JPG


        follow me and rotate -3.JPG

        ~ Brooke

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        • brookefoxB Offline
          brookefox
          last edited by

          Results with a 2d spiral:


          follow me and rotate -5.JPG


          follow me and rotate -6.JPG

          ~ Brooke

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          • pilouP Offline
            pilou
            last edited by

            Better if surface is drawn on the ground (Flat) as a top view as the helix is vertical
            but not obliged in theory any orientations can be made
            Seems your examples fail because of the Construction Point is out of the surface!

            You can add a Construction Point on the surface By the Didier Bur Projection

            helix.jpg

            http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45446&stc=1&d=1223643779

            Images following by Takesh

            http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45450&stc=1&d=1223648103

            http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=45506&stc=1&d=1223954760

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

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            • brookefoxB Offline
              brookefox
              last edited by

              Thank you for your very helpful help. I will try to implement it.

              ~ Brooke

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              • brookefoxB Offline
                brookefox
                last edited by

                It's a start!
                follow me and rotate -7.JPG
                follow me and rotate -9.JPG
                follow me and rotate -8.JPG

                ~ Brooke

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                • Dave RD Offline
                  Dave R
                  last edited by

                  Looks like a drogue to drag behind a boat. 😄

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                  • mitcorbM Offline
                    mitcorb
                    last edited by

                    Do you have to group the polygon first? No?

                    I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                    • pilouP Offline
                      pilou
                      last edited by

                      Your result is normal 😉
                      Scale 0.2 signify 1/5 at each segment generation!
                      so
                      1, 0.2, 0.04, 0.008...so toward very tiny very speedy 😉
                      Take 0.95 if you want a more smooth reduction 😄

                      PS Put a Construction Point at the center of the surface make nothing more! 😉
                      This one must be excentered for make something funny!

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

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                      • brookefoxB Offline
                        brookefox
                        last edited by

                        You pick the face and the path, face and curve, no group.

                        Getting somewhere, at least.

                        I'm sparing you the mis-starts, by which means I absolve myself of error.


                        follow me and rotate-settings-rotate 15 scale .9-4a.JPG


                        follow me and rotate-settings-rotate 15 scale .9-4b.JPG

                        ~ Brooke

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                        • brookefoxB Offline
                          brookefox
                          last edited by

                          I think that degrees of rotation and scaling over the entire path would be useful settings, saving much perhaps tedious calculation for the machine, which does it so much faster.

                          ~ Brooke

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                          • Dave RD Offline
                            Dave R
                            last edited by


                            http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7085/6965349742_2e0f0c498b_z.jpg

                            I had to play a little. 😉

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                            • pilouP Offline
                              pilou
                              last edited by

                              The curious is that works for the v6 but not for the V7 for me 😒

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

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                              • brookefoxB Offline
                                brookefox
                                last edited by

                                I will get a boat and try it. Thank you, Dave.

                                Thanks, Pilou. I figured my interpretation of the scale setting was the problem. I assumed it was over the entire path and that the number would be the result, i.e. 20% of the original at the end. A few extra words in the setting dialog might save a lot of dead drouge drag. Did you miss my construction point? I managed that.

                                I think another problem is the helix has too many segments to be workable and I am trying now to work that but so far the routine reverses the helix, etc.

                                ~ Brooke

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                                • brookefoxB Offline
                                  brookefox
                                  last edited by

                                  My main problem at the time of my first post, apart from understanding that the settings were per segment rather than per curve, was that I had picked the edges of the face as well as the face. You must not pick the face edges.

                                  The movement of the path from its original location seems inconsistent, though I don't doubt it is obeying some rule. My faces lie on the path and my control points are at the end of the path and on the face, but sometimes the routine moves the path to have its other end meet the face and point. Once with the same entities but a simplified curve it did not do this.; at the moment it is so instead of decreasing from the big end I contrive to increase from the small end.

                                  Use Simplify curves to reduce the segment numbers in a curve if it suits your purposes as it does here for me as I want the faceted look.

                                  Pilou's pics by Takesh, with Pilou's notes, at the wonderful site pushpullbar.com: http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?9467-Visual-Index-of-Ruby-Scripts

                                  What happens for you now, Pilou?

                                  This is close to the kind of thing I was looking for.


                                  follow me and rotate-settings-rotate 9 scale 1.05 6 segment face.JPG

                                  ~ Brooke

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                                  • brookefoxB Offline
                                    brookefox
                                    last edited by

                                    Suggestion for settings dialog, with a tweak.


                                    follow me and rotate-settings dialog-prop-1.JPG

                                    ~ Brooke

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                                    • mitcorbM Offline
                                      mitcorb
                                      last edited by

                                      I downloaded the zip version on page 4 or 5, extracted to V7 Plugins. No sign of any part of the script in the menu. No info in preferences>extensions. No toolbar selection. Nothing in the tools menu. Is it a right click context thing? Did I miss something?

                                      I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                                      • brookefoxB Offline
                                        brookefox
                                        last edited by

                                        Did you try page 1: far.rar?

                                        C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google SketchUp 7 or 8\Plugins\FollowAndRotate_en.rbs

                                        Called by name in plugin drop down menu...

                                        ~ Brooke

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                                        • mitcorbM Offline
                                          mitcorb
                                          last edited by

                                          The files are in the correct Plugins folder, they just don't "install(?)" to be seen in the drop downs.

                                          I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                                          • Dave RD Offline
                                            Dave R
                                            last edited by

                                            It didn't work for me until I put the ...cn.rbs file in, too. And it shows at the bottom of my Plugins menu

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