[Plugin] Control points ver. 1.6.

kirill2008

i am having a strange problem, plugin only shows up on initial opening drawing. If I open a new one without closing Sketchup completely, no plugin.

As I can see on attached picture the whole face is selected, but current version of the script (ver. 1.1.) actually processes only curves. So try select only boundary curve without face itself (you may deselect face by pressing shift and single-clicking on face). Make sure that only boundary is selected. Of course script processing does not depend on opened file (old or new). It depends on what entity is the first one selected: if it occures that curve edge is the 1-st item of selected entities collection, then everything works, if the 1-st item is face, then the command does not appear within context menu.
So I'll try to make the script more tolerant to the selection in future versions .
Speaking of copy-paste behaviour, I'll try to find out why it processes so strange (don't know why yet).

wind-borne

kirill,

Thanks for your response, the problem is that the plugin only appears in the first file of a session, be it opening Sketchup with an old file or a new one. If I open an old or new after the initial startup, plugin is simply not there, curves or curves/faces selected doesn't make any difference( works both ways in first file opened).

The strange behavior is that the plugin follows the copy/paste and works on the original object (even though I have deleted it after pasting) in the new file but not on anything newly drawn.

Actually by thinking out loud I can see now how to do what I need to, just a cumbersome path.

The plugin, itself, has a nice feel.

halroach

very nice plugin!
but, there's always a but...

would be nice if copying and pasting a controlled object between documents would work.
doesn't work within components
undo function doesn't quite work well... takes many undos to go back one visual step.

keep up the good work!

Panga

Thanks a lot for this one, it'll be very usefull !!

pep75

GREAT WORK!!!!!

grtzzzz

MALAISE

Kirill , allways a new idea, on the way to interactiv drawing.

MALAISE

kirill2008

Deformation of geometry groups in the current version (1.2) has plastic nature. It means when the control point places back to its previous position, previous deformation does not disappear completely (some rest deformation remains).

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I'll try to make deformation nature optional (plastic or elastic) in future versions.

pilou

Cynetic

REGIS

Nice Plugin and thanks for your hard work

Works fine but sometime SU6 suddenly crash.
Unfortunately it doesn(t works with SU7(mac).

Cheers

notareal

Thanks!

Carrozza

One of the most powerful plugins I've seen to date! Bravo Kirill!

AcesHigh

FANTASTIC!

AcesHigh

actually, not so fantastic

I just cannot add control points to groups, as its done in the videos. I get no such options at the context menu!

mitcorb

Can this script recognize and utilize construction/control points placed by another ruby script?

TIG

@aceshigh said:

actually, not so fantastic

I just cannot add control points to groups, as its done in the videos. I get no such options at the context menu!

DIY fix: open the script in a plain text editor, find the 6 occurrences of 'model.entities' in the script and edit it to 'model.active_entities' - it will then work inside group edits etc...

kirill2008

@tig said:

DIY fix: open the script in a plain text editor, find the 6 occurrences of 'model.entities' in the script and edit it to 'model.active_entities' - it will then work inside group edits etc...

Cool

mitcorb

Let us hope that this (TIG's suggestion) is being considered by the author in a revision.
And, I see that it is acknowledged.

xrok1

can't beleive i missed this one! f'n incredible.
i would love to be able to select more than 1 point at a time though(wouldn't need FFD anymore)

AcesHigh

@xrok1 said:

can't beleive i missed this one! f'n incredible.
i would love to be able to select more than 1 point at a time though(wouldn't need FFD anymore)

as far as I know, you can select more than 1 point at a time.

REGIS

@xrok1 said:

i would love to be able to select more than 1 point at a time though(wouldn't need FFD anymore)

Not sure I wouldn't need FFD anymore, I was thinking in a combination with control points and FFD

@ Kirill

Any idea if this plugin could work in SU7 on mac ?

Cheers