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

jmmad

I can add shear and twist without too much problem. But the royal way to all these deformations is definitely Sketchy FFD.

I Know FFD is very powerful for deformation tool, but its not as fast and easy to use as your Taper Deformation Script.
with FFD it is very hard to do an accurate bend or twist, also you canot deform Nested Components or Grups, and you canot align the deformation as easy as you can do it with Taper deformation in your ruby.

Daniel S

Fredo already post a shear transformation plugin that works very well.
Click here: PlaneShear
It`s not very popular because it´s inside a question topic.

Daniel S

fredo6

@daniel s said:

Another problem that I have is when trying to scale Red, Green, Blue (all togheter) with a negative number.
I attach a video showing this.

In the video you will see that if I try to scale only red axis negative, only green negative or only blue negative all works well... but if I take a red blue and green grip to a negative number it turns crazy. The same happens if I press the ctrl key. It works well if I scale one axis only.

Daniel S

Daniel,

Another interesting bug (due to Sketchup precision reaching limits). I hope I hav fixed them (you had one for Taper with negative scales too)
Would you mind to try with this updated version.

Thanks very much

Fred

to drop in FREESCALE_Dir_10

jmmad

@daniel s said:

Fredo already post a shear transformation plugin that works very well.
Click here: PlaneShear
It`s not very popular because it´s inside a question topic.

Daniel S

How could i missed a Fredo Script ?
OMG Shear works great Im impresed 2 times by you Fredo in a day, and nice icons you made last year for it Daniel.

Fredo the only thing i miss in shear deformation is that it groups the shear object at the end, in your Taper deformation that does not happen so you can deform part of an object without breaking it in 2.
It would be amazing to bend, twist, shear, bugle just part of an object.
That way Organic Modeling would be like playing with clay in SU,
Thxs to so talented scripters like you

Daniel S

Fredo,

This new version fixes all the problems in the scale tool in all the axis.
I didn´t try before the Taper with negative scales. Seems that now there is a problem only if you try to Taper with negative scales about center (pressing the Ctrl key). All the rest works very well.
I attach a video of this too.

Thank you,
Daniel S

Taper with negative scales about center problem video .wmv

majid

just to sow my respect to u
majid

Yanman

Hi

Fredo6

Thank you! THANK YOU!!!very very VERY much Fredo6

Heven7_floor

Thanksyou Fredo ,it 's wonderful script, good idol of SU plugin for me ,I like it ,thanks again.

Rodentpete

Great work with this very useful sript, Google really needs to give you a job!

Fletch

I've been begging for this for years... and here it is...
Fredo! You rock, my friend! Fantastic! Thanks so much for sharing!

fredo6

NEW UPDATE 02 FEB 09

I have posted an update to FreeScale and to LibFredo6.
It mainly fixes some problems of stability when scaling or tapering with negative factors, as well as minor issues here and there.

Please make sure you update both

FreeScale 1.0c--> http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=16021#p124685

LibFredo6 3.0c --> http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=16020#p124684

Thanks to all for your warm support and your contribution to testing this very first version of FreeScale. I hope to add a few features soon in the future, hopefully.

Fredo

fredo6

NEW NEW UPDATE - 3 Feb 09 - 00:20

There was a big bug in my previous update 1.0c (Scale about center did not work any longer). Sorry for that.

Please make sure you download the version **1.0d**in the main thread.

Sorry again. I hope this one will be stable again.

Fredo

Chris Fullmer

Absolutely fantastic. One of the tools I've also thought should just be included in SU by default. Thanks so much!

Chris

blugarero

This is so useful. Thank you very much for your efforts. AWESOME!!!

Pixero

Thanks Fredo. I can see tons of use for this plugin.

Question: Would it be possible to have a "object oriented" move tool with a gizmo. It would be very useful for positioning object. Maybe a switch in the tool between world coord and object space coords (rotated object directions).

erikB

Thank you very much Fredo.
It has allready been very handy !!

erikB

James Fraser

First: thanks Fredo, this plugin is going to make a lot of things a lot easier and quicker. I could have used taper on some recent things and being able to reorient the scaling box is something I will use all the time.

Second: how it works on the Mac. I didn't see many people writing about this, so I thought I would let you know. The good news is that generally works fine, the only problem is a couple of UI things. The web dialogs do display, but it fills the bottom half of the window with nothing (presumably stretching the little blankspace border you normally get around things), but you can get around this by resizing the window until you see everything.

The slightly bigger problem for me is labels. The mouseover description works fine, but the labels under icons are blank (when I turned them on), in the menu there are four blank lines, which work for selecting the tools, but have no names and I do not get anything in the flyout from the context menu (I mean there isn't a flyout, but there should be, the Freescale thing is there, but nothing happens). I don't care about the labels per se, but I use keyboard shortcuts a lot and without a label there is nothing to bind it to (I want to replace S for the normal scale tool ).

The only thing I can think of off the top of my head would be a filename/case sensitivity problem, as that is more likely to affect OS X than Windows (which I think is still case insensitive, at least most of the time). You will probably know better than me, though.

otb designworks

That's funny James, I was just logging on to describe exactly what you are talking about.

I, too, wanted to change my shortcut, but, in the shortcut window, there are four freeform scales listed, but, if I assign S to one of them, it applies to all of them and then has no effect at all while modeling.

The context menu, like James describes, is all blank, but each space, if clicked on, operates a different function.

Still, I am loving this plugin! One of my most used 5, no doubt.

Thanks Fredo!

a4chitect

one of the most beautifully integrated scripts! thanks and bravo!!!

Matt666

This awesome plugin must contains awesome icons...
Icon master CadFather!!! This plum job is naturally for you!