[Obsolete] FredoScale 1.0e (Free Scaling, Taper Scaling)

johnsenior1973

Solo is going to find his cartoon characters a great deal easier with this. This is clearly another great leap for Sketchup.

Teezer

Wonderful! Great! Excellent! Thank you, thank you, thank you...

tbd

to be able to run on Mac I had to create DEFPARAM_Dir under plugins dir (due permissions restriction the mkdir command in Lib6Core_30 failed)

nice work Fredo

solo

Bravo!!

Just what I need for my character modeling, thanks a ton.

watkins

Dear Fredo6,

One little known option of the native SU Scale tool is the ability to input final dimensions via the VCB (example: 100mm,100mm,100mm). The scale box is then scaled to those dimensions. Is this something that could be include in your script?

Kind regards,
Bob

otb designworks

Great script! Thank you thank you!.

However, I, as you know, am on a MAC and I am having serious issues with this script.

The standard scaling tool works beautifully and as expected. Being able to set the orientation is brilliant!.

The taper scale tool, however, isn't working at all.

It displays the bounding box and shows the results of all of the tool manipulations, but it never actually changes the object geometry. Picture attached. Hitting return or clicking outside the box erases the bounding box and the cube remains as is.

Let me know what I can do to assist diagnosis.

Thanks again.

Picture 1.png

Matt666

Awesome !!! Thank you Fredo !

MALAISE

Hi Fredo

Incredible enhancement

MERCI

MALAISE

Daniel S

Awesome!!!
Thank you Fredo!!!

I only have a problem when set the dimension in the dialog box by pressing TAB. It dosen´t accept what I put.. just make a beep
I attach a video example of this.

Daniel S

a video of the problem (.wmv)

fredo6

@daniel s said:

I only have a problem when set the dimension in the dialog box by pressing TAB. It dosen´t accept what I put.. just make a beep
I attach a video example of this.

Daniel S

Daniel,

Strange. What is the default decimal separator you normally use in your version of Sketchup.
Just in case, can you turn the Ruby console on to see if anything is displayed.
Can you also type in the Ruby console the following command:

Traductor.string_to_length_formula "20"

and see what it does.

I don't know if any other users has found that problem?

I will analyze what it could be in parallel.

Fredo

fredo6

@watkins said:

Dear Fredo6,

One little known option of the native SU Scale tool is the ability to input final dimensions via the VCB (example: 100mm,100mm,100mm). The scale box is then scaled to those dimensions. Is this something that could be include in your script?

Kind regards,
Bob

Bob,

Just press TABwhen the scaling handle is highlighted (or use the contextual menu). You should have the Dimension box appearing. For teh time being, I preferred to reserve the VCB to scale values.

Fredo

PS: Daniel S. has found some issues with this dialog box. Maybe you can report if found any.

fredo6

@unknownuser said:

The taper scale tool, however, isn't working at all.

It displays the bounding box and shows the results of all of the tool manipulations, but it never actually changes the object geometry. Picture attached. Hitting return or clicking outside the box erases the bounding box and the cube remains as is.

Let me know what I can do to assist diagnosis.

Thanks again.

It is clear that there is an error in the execution of the deformation, as shown on your image.
The best would be to turn on the Ruby console and see what it says. I don't know if it could be related to Mac.
Also can you tell me if your run SU 7 or 6.

Fredo

roadkill

many thanks dude... that is special!

otb designworks

Hi Fredo!

Here is the Ruby Console result from attempting to taper scale.

I am using SU7, OS 10.5.6.

Thanks!

Picture 1.png

Daniel S

Fredo:

When i put in the ruby console

Traductor.string_to_length_formula "20"

It returns:

Traductor.string_to_length_formula "20"
nil

When i have open the ruby console and try to use the dialog box don`t report anything.
I have the same problem with the taper.. it dosen´t accept what i put on the dialog box.

I attach a screenshoot of my units.

Daniel S

TeKnoel

this looks great! thanks for your hard work

EarthMover

Holy Sh!t! Just what I was thinking of asking for the other day. I love the taper. Reminds me of the Falloff function in Modo. Thanks Fredo!

gaganraj

phenomenal tool. works perfectly on my windows machine. same issue as kannonbal on my mac.

i'm amazed at how intuitive and simple such a great tool can me made. I absolutely love the little green check mark!! such a great idea. This will make SDS proxies so much easier! thanks!

fredo6

To Daniel S(on problem of dimension dialog box)

I don't understand what is happening.
Can you then try the 3 commands below, one by one


Traductor.string_to_length "20"


"20".to_l


Traductor.string_to_float_formula "20"

Apparently other users have not reported the problem (yet). So it may be something specific to your environment.

Fredo

fredo6

To Chuck (Kannonbal) on issues with Taper Scale

I made an update to LibFredo6 in relation with the issues you signaled.
Could you download and install again LibFredo6 and advise if you still have the problem

Thanks

Fredo