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    [Plugin] Shape Bender Beta

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    • Chris FullmerC
      Chris Fullmer
      last edited by

      It struggles when it tries to bend shapes full of components. So try a simple shape first to find out if its working at all. If it really is getting stuck, then try opening the Ruby Console and then run the script. See if it outputs and error messages. If it does, post them back here to this thread and I'll take a look at it.

      If its getting stuck, and not posting any errors, could you remove all other plugins, leaving just clf_shape_bender_loader.rb and the clf_shape_bender folder in place. Then see if it works any better.

      Thanks,

      Chris

      Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
      All my Plugins I've written

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      • Chris FullmerC
        Chris Fullmer
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        Thats great Simon, thanks for putting that together.

        That part on the text wrapping about the corners not working correctly.....I know ๐Ÿ˜ž It is something I want to fix so it works the way you expect it to in that example. However, there are times when it is doing what would be the desired action. So I will need to build in a toggle between the 2 solutions.

        Perhaps I'll draw up a quick diagram that shows how it currently acts, how I would like it to act, and overlay them so you can see how they are different and then show an example for each that shows when one result would be beneficial over the other.

        But a great big thanks to you Simon for putting all that info together!

        Chris

        Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
        All my Plugins I've written

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        • simon le bonS
          simon le bon
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          Cher Chris,
          I appreciate that you enjoy my small contribution (very far from giving back what you give us with ShapeBender). What I wanted to demonstrate is that ShapeBender is also a high geometric precision tool, that for my part I am convinced.
          I think it would be desirable to open a specific topic on the use of ShapeBender(as we should do for all master plugin), to collect the tests and experiments very interesting and unfortunately dispersed throughout this thread.

          And Here the first problem I encountered, that I wanted to talk:

          http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/C1_005_650.jpg

          ShapeBender encountered difficulties_01 slideshow
          :-)s

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          • Chris FullmerC
            Chris Fullmer
            last edited by

            Hmm, that is interesting. I will try to play with it and see if I can repeat the results. I can't think of any good reason it would do that. But that doesn't mean its not doing it. So I'll see what I can find,

            Chris

            Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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            • Chris FullmerC
              Chris Fullmer
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              My first guess would be to try component spray. Just unload that script and see if that does the trick. There was a problem with it and Didier uploaded a new version that fixes the problem. So remove it and that fixes the problem, download the newest update here

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              I really think that's it. Let me know if its not,

              Chris

              Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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                edmund
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                This plugin is great. I had all of the profiles of my fins drawn already from a physical model I had to build. So this plugin was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a ton.


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                • Chris FullmerC
                  Chris Fullmer
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                  Wow! Thats awesome! I'm surprised, I mean glad, that my script worked for you ๐Ÿ˜„

                  Chris

                  Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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                  • ToboboT
                    Tobobo
                    last edited by

                    Chris,

                    Thanks for all your help that worked.

                    Also this script is awesome (Sorry) AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                    And it does railings

                    Bend Test.jpg

                    Toby

                    Philippians 4:13

                    I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

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                    • Chris FullmerC
                      Chris Fullmer
                      last edited by

                      Yes, I am well aware of that little detail ๐Ÿ˜„ I would like to fix it, it just will take some time and thinking. It is only on the end segemnts that those lines do not actually align correctly. In time, I'll fix it.

                      Chris

                      Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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                      • pilouP
                        pilou
                        last edited by

                        Suggestion ๐Ÿ˜„
                        So resize all external segments = ED! ๐Ÿ˜‰


                        sugestion.jpg

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

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                        • pilouP
                          pilou
                          last edited by

                          So maybe make an another external "arc half circle" ๐Ÿ˜‰

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

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                            Sir
                            last edited by

                            i get around the problem by making the curve more curvey thani need it, then intersect a plane through so its cutoff after 180 degrees rotation... its a work around, but it works!

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                              Alsatic
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                              You can also start with a circle and explode it. Then keep one additional segment on each end of the half circle and weld it. You will get something like in the picture. Then erase the two red blocs you don't need and you're done.

                              Shape_Bender_half-circle+.jpg

                              This solution has been posted on a french forum here:
                              http://www.systemed.fr/Forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=32570&PN=1&TPN=1

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                                Physicsguy1
                                last edited by

                                It won't bend the shapes. The progress bar will completely freeze well below 20%, and won't unfreeze. i don't know what happened.

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                                • pilouP
                                  pilou
                                  last edited by

                                  Cool trick & works fine!
                                  the funny thing is that the red blocks are false in the length! ๐Ÿ˜‰
                                  circle explosed and arc curves were build with same length of their segments!


                                  trick.jpg

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

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                                  • ToboboT
                                    Tobobo
                                    last edited by

                                    Try to follow what chris told me to solve my problem with the bar freezing.

                                    @chris fullmer said:

                                    My first guess would be to try component spray. Just unload that script and see if that does the trick. There was a problem with it and Didier uploaded a new version that fixes the problem. So remove it and that fixes the problem, download the newest update here

                                    404 Not Found

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                                    I really think that's it. Let me know if its not,

                                    Chris

                                    Toby

                                    Philippians 4:13

                                    I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

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                                    • Chris FullmerC
                                      Chris Fullmer
                                      last edited by

                                      I agree, update component spray. If thats not it, we'll start debugging!

                                      Chris

                                      Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                                      All my Plugins I've written

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                                        caramel1982
                                        last edited by

                                        The sketches that you have made are just simply amazing. I can't do it myself. I need more practice.

                                        Simulation pret immobilier
                                        -- caramel --

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                                          bianhai
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                                          Nice plugin, ๐Ÿ‘ Thanks!

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                                            darkPhysics
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                                            Please help me! It just wont work. I have the progressbar.rb, but it wont show the preview of bend. Here is the image
                                            http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/9918/problemfyj.png
                                            . Can anyone help me? Here is my plugins folder:
                                            http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/3189/pluginsfolder.png
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