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

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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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        spardacus
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        Is there any way to resize the control panel in the Sketchup Interface? Even when I lower my screen resolution the Control panel remains rather small - too small to read.

        See attachment.

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        • fredo6F Offline
          fredo6
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          @spardacus said:

          Is there any way to resize the control panel in the Sketchup Interface? Even when I lower my screen resolution the Control panel remains rather small - too small to read.

          See attachment.

          I don't see the attachment.

          Unfortunately, there is no solution from the plugin. You may want to have a look at the following thread, where the problem is evoked with some solution.

          Fredo

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          • fredo6F Offline
            fredo6
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            @jclements said:

            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.

            By the way, the latest version (published for SU2016) includes a status and tooltip to indicate the order of selection.

            Fredo

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            • JClementsJ Offline
              JClements
              last edited by

              Thanks.

              John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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              • dereiD Offline
                derei
                last edited by

                Curviloft is creating strange looking geometry on Single F-Spline Curve Mode. Can't figure out why.
                I would appreciate any idea why this is happening.
                Thank you.

                Please see attached image and skp file.

                curviloft.png


                curviloft.skp

                DESIGNER AND ARTIST [DEREI.UK](http://derei.uk/l)

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                • fredo6F Offline
                  fredo6
                  last edited by

                  Derei,

                  There is a bug / limitation for close-loop contours with F-Spline. It certainly deserves a fix.

                  Might be the same for B-Spline with close-loop by the way.

                  Fredo

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                  • dereiD Offline
                    derei
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                    @fredo6 said:

                    Derei,

                    There is a bug / limitation for close-loop contours with F-Spline. It certainly deserves a fix.

                    Might be the same for B-Spline with close-loop by the way.

                    Fredo

                    After MANY tries I was able to fix it. I cut the loop in two, deleted the last segment (on the part whith the glitch), then I mirrored it to make it again closed loop. After doing the same to all tree loops, the skinning went well. Can't understand why. What was different in the newly made curve...

                    Because I tried before only to delete the two segments (on both side of symmetry plane) and redraw them... but that didn't fix the problem. Only completely deleting half and mirroring it after redrawing the segment helped.

                    DESIGNER AND ARTIST [DEREI.UK](http://derei.uk/l)

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                    • fredo6F Offline
                      fredo6
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                      Glad you found a workaround.

                      Actually, closing splines 'nicely' is not so easy, and FSpline is somehow special, home-made. So I need to adjust the method.

                      Fredo

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                      • K Offline
                        kaas
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                        @derei: I never close loops but always work with two halves that I group after the both lofts are done. Works quite nicely.

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                        • E Offline
                          Einstein
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                          Thank you! If I could use only one plugin in SU, that would be Curviloft 😄

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                          • A Offline
                            AcesHigh
                            last edited by

                            any idea what is causing this?

                            http://i.imgur.com/shJAw9o.jpg

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                            • Dave RD Offline
                              Dave R
                              last edited by

                              Have you installed fresh versions of both Curviloft AND LibFredo6?

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                              • A Offline
                                AcesHigh
                                last edited by

                                @dave r said:

                                Have you installed fresh versions of both Curviloft AND LibFredo6?

                                Yes. Although in my memory I had Curviloft already installed, I was not finding it anywhere. So maybe I did not installed it before on Sketchup 15.

                                So I installed from the Sketchucation Store Curviloft, it didn´t work (already showed that message). Then I installed the last LibFredo. No change.

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                                • Dave RD Offline
                                  Dave R
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                                  Perhaps you have some residual files from an older version. I would suggest going to the Plugins folder using the Sketchucation Plugin store tool. Delete any files and folders you find related to both Curviloft and LibFredo6. Make sure there's nothing left. Quit SketchUp. Then open it again and using the SCF Plugin Store tool, reinstall both.
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                                  • TIGT Offline
                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    You also need to restart SketchUp to effect the changes to Fredo's newly installed extensions and/or updated Lib...

                                    TIG

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                                    • B Offline
                                      Bisectrix
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi,

                                      I got this error message when re-starting SU after having Curviloft installed:

                                      "You must install LibFredo6 version 6.9 or higher to run Fredo6_Curviloft"

                                      LibFredo6 is installed correctly. Another Plugin, e.g. Bezier Spline is running without any such error message during starting SU.

                                      Maybe anyone could help me how to fix it?

                                      Regards,


                                      SketchUp Error message.png

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                                      • A Offline
                                        AcesHigh
                                        last edited by

                                        can't find Curviloft at the plugins folder.

                                        there are 4 files with "curvi" name there... all of them related to "curvishear". Is it the same thing?

                                        edit: ok, the problem was that Sketchucation Store showed me one folder as my plugins install folder, while those two plugins were in another folder.

                                        As you can see on my screenshot of the problem, there is a plugins folder at "C:/Users/AcesHigh/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/" and another at "C:/ProgramData/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/"

                                        Error Loading File Fredo6_Curviloft.rb
                                        Error: #<ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)>
                                        C:/Users/AcesHigh/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_!LibFredo6.rb:308:in top_load' C:/ProgramData/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_Curviloft.rb:29:in module:Fredo6'
                                        C:/ProgramData/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_Curviloft.rb:26:in `<top (required)>'

                                        Analyzing better this, it seems Curviloft is looking for the Fredo6 Library at AppData, while in truth it´s located at ProgramData.

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                                        • A Offline
                                          AcesHigh
                                          last edited by

                                          well, ok, so I deleted LibFredo from the AppData folder, leaving the only version installed at ProgramData.

                                          Now all Fredo6 plugins bugged. Except Curviloft, which now is working... 😛

                                          It seems I need to do the inverse: install all Fredo plugins, including Curviloft, at AppData.

                                          EDIT

                                          Ok, it turns out I can´t install at the default plugins folder. no permissions. Following all the instructions available here at the site did not help. I just can´t change the permissions for the folder. Options greyed-out. Tried to take ownership. No luck.

                                          So I installed two versions of LibFredo6. One using the automatic Sketchucation Store installer at Program Data folder.

                                          The other I installed MANUALLY at the main plugins folder, using RBZ extension, so previous Fredo plugins installed there would work.

                                          Now everything is working again and I do not get the Error Message.

                                          Solved? NO!!! 😕

                                          JUst can´t find Curviloft anywhere. No toolbar (nor toolbar available at "view/toolbars"). Did not find it either at Plugins or the Tools drop down window...

                                          EDIT:

                                          solved, installing Curviloft MANUALLY (RBZ) worked.

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                                          • robertWanR Offline
                                            robertWan
                                            last edited by

                                            What am I doing wrong?
                                            At the beginning of the film is not formed skin.
                                            http://www.screencast.com/t/aZEj6Qsq
                                            SU8, Win7.

                                            Robert

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