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    • Chris FullmerC Offline
      Chris Fullmer
      last edited by

      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

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      • simon le bonS Offline
        simon le bon
        last edited by

        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 Offline
          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.
          All my Plugins I've written

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          • Chris FullmerC Offline
            Chris Fullmer
            last edited by

            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

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              edmund
              last edited by

              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 Offline
                Chris Fullmer
                last edited by

                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 Offline
                  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 Offline
                    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

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                    • pilouP Offline
                      pilou
                      last edited by

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


                      sugestion.jpg

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                      • pilouP Offline
                        pilou
                        last edited by

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

                        Frenchy Pilou
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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
                            last edited by

                            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 Offline
                                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
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                                My Little site :)

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                                • ToboboT Offline
                                  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

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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 Offline
                                    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
                                        last edited by

                                        Nice plugin, ๐Ÿ‘ Thanks!

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                                          darkPhysics
                                          last edited by

                                          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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                                          • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                            Chris Fullmer
                                            last edited by

                                            The problem is with the compspray.rb

                                            Update it from here:

                                            http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=11746

                                            Didier had a bug in it that was breaking the progressbar, but he fixed it nicely. So just update that, then it should work.

                                            Let me know if that does not help.

                                            Chris

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

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