[Plugin] extrudeEdgesByLathe

Dan

Thank you, Tig!
A really useful plugin. And it works perfectly .
A question, though: the cursor isn't supposed to snap to a given point when asked for the lathe center?
I noticed the tooltip telling me where my cursor points, but a more consistent visual feedback seems necessary, IMHO.

Thanks again, great work!

TIG

@unknownuser said:

Tig

Am I missing something? Is there a difference between your lath tool and 1001bits lath tool? I have used both, and I cannot see any difference in the final product after smoothing.

Both seemed to do the job, I am just wondering what I am missing.

Ken

1001 tools ?
This is a separate tool written entirely from scratch.

TIG

The 'pick center-point' prompt/point_pick will 'infer' to any suitable point - e.g. intersection/midpoint/end/on_edge/center etc... but it you have a specific point that you want the arc to sweep from then I suggest you make some cline/guides-intersections or cpoints etc to snap to during the tool - before using it...

TIG

You can pick the center anywhere - 'off-center' skews stuff BUT you might want that... Set up with guides or cpoints if you want to 'lathe' about a definite center...

Thanks for the feedbacks... you should know that I wrote it 'from scratch' during today... so there might be [probably are] some improvements possible... Let me know of anything you think might improve it...

ken

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1001 tools ?
This is a separate tool written entirely from scratch.

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TIG
I certainly did not mean to imply that you plugin was anything but your own creation. I was just wondering if your plugin handled the arc or circle segments or finish the lath function differently. I only ask that question because of the way Sketchup make circles and arcs with segments.

Again thanks for all you scripts.

Ken

TIG

Ken

My 'lathe' uses NO arcs at all - all of the edges that are created are pseudo-arcs - i.e. edges that might make an arc BUT aren't actually part of an arc... It simply makes a 'followme' of a face [or any polyline !!!] around a supposed arc shaped path, that is correct without any distortions of the geometry - unlike the built-in 'followme' < 360 degrees...

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dtrarch

TIG
This is a long needed tool and thanks a bunch for taking the trouble.
Long time ago there was one with the same ruby name so good idea to flush the old one if exist before install.

Much needed and appreciated by all.

Cheers

dtr

simon le bon

dear Tig,

This tool is so great
It compensate something we can tell it is an irritating kind of bug of FollowMe Tool when we need to draw a "piece of cake".
But it can do much more, and it is so easy to use.. Super

You surf so easily with ruby that you are a sort of Yoda jedaï in the SketchUpSpace...

Thank again, thank for this...
simon.

pilou

Seems you must say that the "path" or the "face" must be on a vertical plan else maybe result will be not that you want
Cool plug as always

notareal

Thanks!

thomthom

@unknownuser said:

Seems you must say that the "path" or the "face" must be on a vertical plan else maybe result will be not that you want
Cool plug as always

@tig said:

The selected polyline's edges are swept around in an arc,
about the Z-axis [blue] and are faced.

Frederik

Thanks, Tig...!

@simon le bon said:

You surf so easily with ruby that you are a sort of Yoda jedaï in the SketchUpSpace...

+1

massimo

Many thanks TIG, it works like a charm.

TIG

v1.1 is here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=184477#p184477
Improved inferencing of pick cursor and tooltips.
Added second point pick to set axis of rotation.

Thanks for the kind comments so far...

Ben Ritter

I am not able to create a "donut" shape. My shape is oriented in the vertical direction and I select the blue axis for axis of rotation. What am I doing wrong?

Panga

Thanks a lot for this one, definitly needed !!

TIG

@ben ritter said:

I am not able to create a "donut" shape. My shape is oriented in the vertical direction and I select the blue axis for axis of rotation. What am I doing wrong?

Try this...

Ben Ritter

TIG,

That is the process I used, however, without having a short line to define the radius point.

In my attachment, you can see the result with and without a reference line for the radius point. The inference was indicating that I was going up in the blue axis direction, but I still got the result shown.

Thanks. Ben

Ben Ritter

Attachment

TIG

@ben ritter said:

TIG,

That is the process I used, however, without having a short line to define the radius point.

In my attachment, you can see the result with and without a reference line for the radius point. The inference was indicating that I was going up in the blue axis direction, but I still got the result shown.

Thanks. Ben

Did the VCB say [0.0,0.0,1.0] - i.e. Z-axis... If you start off in the blue Z-direction and hold down the shift-key the interference is locked to blue and when you pick it should definitely be axial... You don't need the short line - I added it for clarity. You can start to move off in the blue direction, hold-down shift to lock in the blue and pick any point above the center and it should snap to vertical ?