[Plugin] BezierSpline - v2.2a - 22 Apr 21

smithsam

First, I have to say, what an amazing plugin. I just discovered it today. Always frustrated by lack of Bezier curves in Sketchup. Wow!

I did discover one problem though. The documentation does not display. I get a blank window.

Mac 0S X 10.5.6 MacBook Pro Intel
Sketchup 7 Pro

doc.tiff

agpig

thank you man it's so helpful

Edson

@watkins said:

Dear Frodo,

...

Kind regards,
Bob

watkins,

i just could not resist pulling your leg about the mix up of fredo6's username with the main character in The Lord of the Rings.

watkins

Dear Edson,

You are not the only one to spot that. I will have to be more careful in future.

Regards,
Bob

mattg

Just re-downloaded this for SU7.

Any reason why the toolbar won't hug the side of the screen.

Seems to only want to sit horizontally along the top.

fredo6

@mattg said:

Just re-downloaded this for SU7.

Any reason why the toolbar won't hug the side of the screen.

Seems to only want to sit horizontally along the top.

Matt,

As you may know, scripts have zero control over the toolbar placement from Ruby.
So it must be SU7 or the configuration of the toolbar set.

In my SU7 environment, I don't have any particular issue.

Fredo

watkins

Dear Mattg

You should be able to 're-shape' the rectangle of icons by searching for re-sizing arrows at the edges using the mouse pointer. Once re-shaped (horizontal rectangle to vertical rectangle) it can be placed along the side.

Regards,
Bob

mattg

Thanks Bob, too easy!

jdspdx

Thanks fredo! I have the same condition as smithsam - Quickcard and Tutorials open as blank boxes from Documentation menu. Both are in BZ_Dir_12. --- jdspdx

fredo6

@jdspdx said:

Thanks fredo! I have the same condition as smithsam - Quickcard and Tutorials open as blank boxes from Documentation menu. Both are in BZ_Dir_12. --- jdspdx

This seems to be related to the Mac platform, dealing with how Adobe PFD reader is installed or configured to ruun in web browser Safari.
I would need other Mac users to advise and possibly gives hints on how to resolve this.

Fredo

Bob James

My two cents worth: I have no problem with any feature of Bezierspline on my Intel iMac.
Also the pdf files located in the BZ_DIR_12 folder open in Adobe Reader 9.

Ayashi

Excellent plugin! Thank you dude!

mitcorb

Thanks, Fredo:
I had a glance at this link and it looks very informative.

fredo6

I discovered a remarkable tutorial on BezierSpline written by Scott Onstottfrom AECBytes at http://www.aecbytes.com/tipsandtricks/2009/issue42-sketchup.html. It will drive you with a step-by-step tour of the plugin, with all types of curves (much better than what I could do).

Fredo

oblin77

Hello Fredo06

Where I can find and download your plugin BezierSpline v1.21 ?

thank you

Best regards

olivier de france

solo

Try the first page.

plot-paris

don't know if that behavior is specific to my machinde. but when I have drawn a curve, then go into edit mode, press Ctrl to unlock allow curve points to be moved outside the initial drawing plane and then press the up arrow to lock it to a vertical direction, my cursor doesn't stick to the point anymore. meaning, that when I move up my cursor only by a tiny bit, the curve point shoots up vertically a lot faster, and in very wide increments too.

if that is the general behavior of the plugin, would it be possible to change it, so that the point still sticks to the position of the curser (only the vertical position of course. to make things easier, a dotted horizontal line could be connecting the curve point and the curser).

any ideas if thats possible?

fredo6

@plot-paris said:

don't know if that behavior is specific to my machinde. but when I have drawn a curve, then go into edit mode, press Ctrl to unlock allow curve points to be moved outside the initial drawing plane and then press the up arrow to lock it to a vertical direction, my cursor doesn't stick to the point anymore. meaning, that when I move up my cursor only by a tiny bit, the curve point shoots up vertically a lot faster, and in very wide increments too.

if that is the general behavior of the plugin, would it be possible to change it, so that the point still sticks to the position of the curser (only the vertical position of course. to make things easier, a dotted horizontal line could be connecting the curve point and the curser).

any ideas if thats possible?

I understand and I had myself questions about this behavior which may not seem very natural. Let's say 2 things about it:

The Vertex Edit mode is actually working for perfroming one move per click. So in your case, you would need to move first in the 3D, then release the mouse, switch to Vertical mode by Arrow and Click to move the point vertically. I agree that I should use the modifier keys as successive steps of Input. I'll probably do that in a further release.
Bezierspline was my very first script and I did not that much of the SU API. My plan would be to introduce stickiness and inferences, a little bit in the spirit of Tools on Surface.

Fredo

plot-paris

@unknownuser said:

My plan would be to introduce stickiness and inferences, a little bit in the spirit of Tools on Surface.

I am really looking forward to this, Fredo.

misteriosodude

Amazing, excellent -- very useful plugin, thanks!