[Plugin] Shape Bender Beta

Dave R

i have same problem
i guess its about the default setting values of edge

What do you mean by "default setting values of edge"?

howardhong

dave, i said "i guess..".
when im using erase tool, i saw a sudden pop up window in the center of screen.
i didnt give any attension, and closed that window.
after that happened, i got same problem.

so i said "i guess..".

Dave R

The only possible edge setting would have to do with Smooth/Soften but it won't open when you are using the Eraser tool. What did the pop up box say?

howardhong

i cant remember it exactly,
theres three scrool down menu and one of it said "sketchup model" or somewhat...

Dave R

I guess, if I were you, I would wait until it shows up again and note what it says. Then report back. If you can make a screen shot showing it, that would be very useful.

Edson

@dave r said:

I select the softened edges (View>Hidden Geometry) and then set the slider to 20 where it normally is by default. In the lower of your screen shots, there's a softened edge at the bottom to take care of.

dave,

I followed your advice and it worked. thanks. never had this problem before.

BlueFalcon

I selected my group and clicked the shape bender icon, i click on the straight line than the curved line, and it gives an error telling me to select the group before clicking the shape bender icon

wath is the problem? i did everything like you did in the video and it wont work

also, how can i make those really soft curved lines?

I'am not new to sketchup or somthing, but i never had problems using plugins.

Dave R

It would be a big help if you either post the SKP file or at least a screen shot.

Edson

just to let you know that the crashing SU8 when running Shape Bender was due to the fact that I was running an outdated version of HOlePunchTool (1.6). as soon as I updated it the crashes stopped.

Dave R

Edson,

Glad that is sorted out. Now you can bend and punch.

TIG

Edson

v1.7 of HolePunch was done around late January and it was to fix a reported conflict with the unusual way ShapeBender made groups, "It appears that the way ShapeBender copies/adds component-instances/definitions and also uses 'make_unique' etc fell foul of the HolePunch definitions-observers: a definition could occasionally get two of the same HolePunch observers added which really messed everything up big time!"
See http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=302853#p302853 [and presumably Solid Tools was doing something similar ?]

All fixed now anyway [btw v2.0 is the current version]...

Edson

@tig said:

Edson

v1.7 of HolePunch was done around late January and it was to fix a reported conflict with the unusual way ShapeBender made groups, "It appears that the way ShapeBender copies/adds component-instances/definitions and also uses 'make_unique' etc fell foul of the HolePunch definitions-observers: a definition could occasionally get two of the same HolePunch observers added which really messed everything up big time!"
See http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=302853#p302853 [and presumably Solid Tools was doing something similar ?]

All fixed now anyway [btw v2.0 is the current version]...

I am sorry I missed that. as I said somewhere else, it is quite hard to follow all the threads about the plugins one has installed. in my case, I have 315 items in my plugins folder...

Chris Fullmer

@tig said:

Edson

v1.7 of HolePunch was done around late January and it was to fix a reported conflict with the unusual way ShapeBender made groups, "It appears that the way ShapeBender copies/adds component-instances/definitions and also uses 'make_unique' etc fell foul of the HolePunch definitions-observers: a definition could occasionally get two of the same HolePunch observers added which really messed everything up big time!"
See http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=302853#p302853 [and presumably Solid Tools was doing something similar ?]

All fixed now anyway [btw v2.0 is the current version]...

Oh my, I missed all of this also TIG. Hopefully its all sorted now. I'll have to make sure to adjust the way shape bender does that if I ever get around to re-writing it.

BlueFalcon

Here is a picture of my problem:
http://portablenetworkgraph.deviantart.com/art/shape-bender-202454409

Gaieus

BlueFalcon,

In those pictures I cannot see the axes. Don't forget that ShapeBender works only along the red axis.

TIG

Assuming that the straight line is drawn along the red-axis...
How big is the group ?
If bending it would make facets <1mm then it might fail...

BlueFalcon

I have done the same procces along the red axis with lines all higher than 1 meter, and the same happens.

Dave R

Could you post a screen shot of your Plugins folder as well as the contents of the folder called clf_shape_bender?

Chris Fullmer

Hmm, not sure why the previes is not shoing up. Just try pressing "enter" after you select the line and curve. See if that does anything.

Also, run it with the ruby console open, see if it shows any errors.

TIG

The line should be ON the red axis ??