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    [Plugin][$] Curviloft 2.0a - 31 Mar 24 (Loft & Skinning)

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      empty00
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      why it says I'm not authorized to download it

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        TIG Moderator
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        @empty00 said:

        why it says I'm not authorized to download it
        You are clearly a member and logged in here to do this post...
        Are you logged in to the side of the forum which hosts the PluginStore etc ?
        Top-right corner of the page 'log-in' in red...
        Currently there are two parts, each needing a member to be logged-in to access all possibilities - however, after logging in you should be remembered thereafter in either [unless you have cookies disabled], unless you haven't visited for a long time...
        Please log-in there and retry.
        If that doesn't fix it report back...

        TIG

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          Kashaki
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          Great plugin, i am loving it! I have just discovered it silly me.

          Still! Hope someone can help me out. I make 3d belzier curves, copy array 15 of them and place them behind each other with space in between. Group them after welding and then use Sketchy FFD to make an organic form of those 15 curves. When i then ungroup them, select them all and use Curviloft it starts working till around 90% and then Sketchup crashes. Can someone help me? Thanks in Advance. When i reduce the curves and just use two of them all is good. Working on Mac with 16 GB RAM.

          Kashaki!

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          • cottyC Offline
            cotty
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            Is there a way to control the face normals? In this example, I was not able to get the right face orientation...
            [screenr:voso8cn5]uyYN[/screenr:voso8cn5]

            my SketchUp gallery

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            • fredo6F Offline
              fredo6
              last edited by

              @kashaki said:

              Great plugin, i am loving it! I have just discovered it silly me.

              Still! Hope someone can help me out. I make 3d belzier curves, copy array 15 of them and place them behind each other with space in between. Group them after welding and then use Sketchy FFD to make an organic form of those 15 curves. When i then ungroup them, select them all and use Curviloft it starts working till around 90% and then Sketchup crashes. Can someone help me? Thanks in Advance. When i reduce the curves and just use two of them all is good. Working on Mac with 16 GB RAM.

              Kashaki!

              The best would be that you post your model. There may be many reasons why Curviloft have big troubles when the geometry could includes defects.

              Fredo

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              • fredo6F Offline
                fredo6
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                @cotty said:

                Is there a way to control the face normals? In this example, I was not able to get the right face orientation...

                Curviloft is not really managing face orientations. This is one thing I have to change when I update it (I understand now better the logic of Sketchup).
                But you have several plugins to reverse or align face orientations now.

                Fredo

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                • cottyC Offline
                  cotty
                  last edited by

                  Yes, I'm able to change those 😉 I just wanted to make sure I have not overlooked any option to change it directly.

                  my SketchUp gallery

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                    serdustser
                    last edited by

                    thanks fredo

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                    • B Offline
                      blackcat1313
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                      Hi - I have been using this great plugin to design a sailplane wing. I hope to be able to create either a mold or plug using a CNC router from the design. The main part of the wing and the very small end portion of the wingtip are done, but the elliptic section in between won't loft.

                      In the attached file, there are 7 curves representing the airfoil shape at different stations along the wingtip. Everything has been scaled up 100x to avoid the "small edge" problem. The trailing edge of the foil is left open as it is easy to add this face once the rest of the surface is lofted.

                      I can loft between most pairs of adjacent foils successfully, but when more are added, Curviloft "twists" the vectors at the trailing edge. The problem seems worst on foils 3 and 4, counting from the root. I have tried untwisting them using the plugin features, but I can't get that to work.

                      The edge count in the foils is pretty high, as these are automatically generated by an airfoil program. I don't have any convenient way to control this. I have a feeling that if this could be reduced, it might work. I was hoping though that some one would have another suggestion.

                      Thanks!

                      Bill
                      

                      Loft Problem.skp

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                      • BoxB Offline
                        Box
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                        You can use another of Fred's excellent plugins to cleanup before lofting.
                        Here it is cleaned with Curvizard then Curviloft.


                        Curvizard.gif

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                          blackcat1313
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                          @box said:

                          You can use another of Fred's excellent plugins to cleanup before lofting.
                          Here it is cleaned with Curvizard then Curviloft.

                          That is amazing, thank you so much! I installed Curvizard, followed the video, and everything was looking good until the last loft segment. Then I got a bugsplat.

                          Any ideas? I'm using Sketchup 2013 on a Mac if that makes any difference.

                          Bill
                          
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                            blackcat1313
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                            Hi Box -

                            I have been looking at the documentation for Curvizard and I see there are quite a few settings on the buttons palette that affect the way the tool works. Would it be possible for you to share with me the settings you used to clean up the curves? The video above is tightly cropped so the settings are not visible. Thanks!

                            Bill
                            
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                              blackcat1313
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                              @box said:

                              You can use another of Fred's excellent plugins to cleanup before lofting.
                              Here it is cleaned with Curvizard then Curviloft.

                              You may have been able to loft it, but can you make it into a solid? I have been able to loft using 4 the airfoils, but even though it looks good, there are too many errors to make it into a solid. I can get faces on the root, tip, and trailing edge, but Solid Inspector**2 finds hundreds of problems that it says cannot be fixed automatically.

                              This is with Sketchup 2015, I upgraded to see if that would improve things. It didn't.

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                                caermalo
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                                Hello fredo
                                I have the following problem with the plugin


                                SketchUp.png


                                Load Errors.png

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                                  dogtorque
                                  last edited by

                                  OH MY GOD!
                                  Thank You so Much
                                  I just tried out this tool and it works it is saving me sooo much time in my creating the faces in my 3d models! and since I do 3d modeling of my own car designs so I can use them in unity this tool is like a blessing! and that it is free just makes you a generous person! if anyone else made this tool they would more than likely of charged a large amount of money for this tool which would suck because I literally don't have a budget for my 3d modeling because I don't have a job right now and I'm currently living with my parents.

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                                    jmeek
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                                    I'm using Curviloft on a Mac. It worked great for one day. Now skinning process bar just stops with 0%. No further effort on my part seems to correct this situation. I'm trying skinning function on a very simple wire frame. Can anyone offer suggestions?

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                                    • Dave RD Offline
                                      Dave R
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                                      Maybe you could post the SKP file? We might actually be able to help you if we could get our mitts on it.

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                                        jmeek
                                        last edited by

                                        Curviloft skinning is working now, after uninstalling and reinstalling Fredo6 Tools. The disruption of began after installing Fredo6 Tools over top the already installed Curviloft.

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                                          JClements
                                          last edited by

                                          Request: For lofting along a path, could its prompt read,
                                          "1st Select Lofting Path, thenEdges to be Lofted".
                                          It would help new users or those who haven't used the plugin in a while.

                                          John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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                                          • fredo6F Offline
                                            fredo6
                                            last edited by

                                            Good idea. Thanks
                                            Actully Curviloft needs some refresh to be more user-friendly.

                                            Fredo

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