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      xrok1
      last edited by

      yes, i think any method is as accurate as you care to make it. (unless you can create a random curve 😆 )

      “There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”

      http://www.Twilightrender.com try it!

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        GLB
        last edited by

        Many thanks to all of you, especially Eric with his great and clear tutorial.
        I do think that shape bender is the quickest solution but it seems that I have some problem with such plugin because cannot get any final result, maybe there's a bug ?
        So, I'll go back to work now and try to finalize such leg !

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        • Chris FullmerC Offline
          Chris Fullmer
          last edited by

          There definitly bugs in the script, but they shouldn't keep it from working. I can you figure out whats wrong with it if you want,

          Chris

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

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            watkins
            last edited by

            Further to another thread, perhaps someone (David?) could make a tutorial showing how shape bender may be used to make the complex shape of the chair leg.

            Regards,
            Bob

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            • Dave RD Offline
              Dave R
              last edited by

              Dear Bob,

              Were you referring to me? Would something like this work?

              Cheers,

              Dave

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                watkins
                last edited by

                Dear David,

                Exactly! As I said in another thread (http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=18210&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=120#p151205), Shape Bender is almost a loft tool, and so the more examples we have of its use the better.

                Kind regards,
                Bob

                Now, I had better go look at that video tutorial, hadn't I.

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                  GLB
                  last edited by

                  Hi Chris,

                  Thanks again for your help, for the time being it seems to work quite without any problem except maybe it's not that fast but I really need to "clean" my labtop first.

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                  • Chris FullmerC Offline
                    Chris Fullmer
                    last edited by

                    ok, good. Glad its working. I'll be the first to admit its no perfect, but I'm glad some of you folks are finding ways to put it to use. I've got some ideas how to speed up certain things it does, but I won't be getting to that for a a month or two I'm sure.

                    Thats a great tutorial Dave. I noticed that the preview geometry didn't show up like it was supposed to - soory! Sometimes it does that when the group to bend is lined up exactly on the line. But its only sometimes it freaks out and I have not been able to figure out why or when so I can't fix it. Oh well! I'll get it later. You explained it nicely that you mostly just need the start and end to correspond and hit enter and it still bends, just without a preview first. Looks great,

                    Chris

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                    • Dave RD Offline
                      Dave R
                      last edited by

                      Chris, thank you.

                      Yes, I noticed that too. The funny thing is that it doid the first several times I went though that. I had to make a number of restarts when recording the video because I'd suddenly start speaking in tongues or the phone would ring or I'd fall of my chair. (None of those things really happened but I did have to restart several times.) I would use Undo to get back to the beginning. After three or four times through, the preview didn't appear. I just went with it though.

                      It is an excellent plugin, Chris.

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                        woodtick
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                        Hi,
                        I happened to spot this thread and thought that was a pretty cool leg design......so I had to have a go at it.I've been spending some time working with Shape Bender and FreeScale this weekend. I just downloaded them both and I'm having a blast seeing what's possible.
                        I used a combination of follow me and the FreeScale taper tool to model this leg.The taper went smoothly..........I spent more time just getting the pocket for the table apron.

                        Rich


                        curvey leg 1.jpg


                        curvey leg 2.jpg


                        curvey leg 3.1.skp

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