[Plugin] Extrude Edges by Face

TIG

Tool has been updated
1.4 20100220 Glitch on some text in db fixed.
1.5 20100220 Glitch with number of Rail-Ribs fixed.
Color coding of picked curves added.
Profile=Cyan
Rail1=Magenta
Rail2=DarkVioletRed
MeldingProfile=DarkCyan
FaceEdges=Orange
See here for download link http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=224218#p224218

chrisjk

TIG, there now seems to be a problem with your latest EEBRF:-

so far so good..

It just stops working here after clicking OK.

pilou

Are you sure?
Just wait end calculation ?
Do you see something bottom screen left corner screen line help?

chrisjk

Frenchy,

I am sure. I replaced the latest version with a version from 18 Feb and that works fine. Changing the older one out for the newer again and it still hangs at the same point.

I am on a Mac - maybe there's a difference?

TIG

There are two tools EEbyFace and EEbyRailsByFace - you are jumbling the threads.
EEbyFace - you pre-pick a Face and a path of Edges and run the tool there are no prompts to pick curves etc
EEbyRailsbyFaces
Pre-pick the ProfileFace

you run the tool
Pick the profiles as with EEbyRails...

BUT it shouldn't dump out like that.
I have tried to replicate this and got it too...

I have a fix - publishing it soonest...

chrisjk

TIG,
True, I was jumbling the threads, I got confused here :-
Screen shot 2010-02-20 at 19.26.48.png

Face - Faces..

and went on to see which of the plugins was actually giving me colours and got hung up on EEBRF. A different naming scheme would make it easier for us mortals! After all, EEBRBF extrudes a selected face along chosen edges, so something like "ExtrudeaFacebyRails" could help differentiate it better.

TIG

I puzzled long about the names
I have a fix for that glitch but it's made another - offsetting the colored lines !
I'll fix it tomorrow...

pilou

about a quarter circle
there is a divergence: I understant that is perpendicular to the last segment,
but it is annoying for make a perfect quarter volume!

TIG

EEbyFace is a kind of 'FollowMe' and you will get un-square ends - use EEbyLathe to be perfect solid by revolution - simply select the face+edges and an axis centered on the arcs cpt...

magnato

Is there a plugin that can delete all the faces in a structure, leaving it with only the edges? I would like to use the nice Extrude Edges by Face plugin to create a typical steel-like structure.

Magnar

I would like to make a structure with steel beams

TIG

To add/remove things to/from a selection there are several tools [e.g. see thomthom's selection_toys script]...
Here's a one liner that takes a selection [it assumes faces and edges are selected, and leaves only faces in the selection - hit delete key to erase faces...]

m=Sketchup.active_model;s=m.selection;sa=s.to_a;s.clear;sa.each{|e|s.add(e)if e.class==Sketchup;;Face}

Paste it into the Ruby Console and hit return...
To make a function wrap it in a 'def' thus:

def isolatefaces()
  m = Sketchup.active_model
  s = m.selection
  sa = s.to_a
  s.clear
  sa.each{|e|
    s.add(e) if e.class == Sketchup;;Face
  }
end#def

ans save it in a plain text file called isolatefaces.rb in the ../Plugins/ folder.
To run it first select somethings, including faces, and type isolatefaces in the Ruby Console - out of the original selection just the faces are now selected - to erase them press the delete key...

magnato

It worked! Very Cool!
I have find a symbol for this so I remember it when I need this function again !

Magnar

zainulx3

Hi, i've been searching the link to download these extrude plugin(each of the features, faces, edges) but I can't find any.

Can you guys give the link beside this link
http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=ExtrudeTools

Thanks guys

cotty

What's wrong with this link?

TIG

That link [ http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=ExtrudeTools ] lets you Download the RBZ of all of the tools - click the RED button.
If you have the latest available update for v8 [>=M2] then you can AutoInstall the RBZ contents from the Preferences > Extensions > Install... button [provided you have FULL permissions to the Plugins folder - see this for advice too http://sketchucation.com/resources/tutorials/36-intermediate/811-setting-security-permissions-in-sketchup ]

DoyleZZ

Hi TIG,I like this plugin so much.But it can not work in SU2017 when i use Extrude Edges by Face

TIG

Several of the my "EEby" tools were unexpectedly broken by the way v2017 handles its entities' IDs when exploding a temporary group etc.
I have managed to fix almost all of the wayward code [keeping backward compatibility], however there are a few minor issues outstanding and the beta-testing to complete - I have been out of the loop for a week or two with family matters, but I hope to get back onto fixing these tools asap...