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

Dave R

@steve jacobs said:

Screenshot below shows Fredo6 LibFredo6 installed and enabled

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I sign in to Sketchucation and file downloads.

@steve jacobs said:

Try to open downloaded file and system gives me the message loading but hangs there for hours until I turn off the machine.

There's no need to open the downloaded file. In SketchUp, go to Window>Extension Manager and click on Install Extension (the red button at the lower left corner of the panel. Navigate to where the downloaded file was saved, select it and click Open.

A better thing to do is install the Sketchucation Tools extension, available under Resources, above, and use it to search for and install extensions from Sketchucation. It will install them without in one step so you don't have to download them and then install them via Extension Manager. It'll also remember the extensions you install with it so you can easily and quickly check for updates and install them. It'll also create a bundle of extensions that you can later use to automatically install the extensions either on a different computer or when you update to the next version of SKetchUp.

AISmebel

Good afternoon. I have a problem with Curviloft and Curvizard plugins.
Perhaps the problem arose after updating LibFredo6.
Reinstalling the plugins did not help.
Delivered an earlier version of LibFredo6, the problem is not fixed.
Here is the link to the video: https://youtu.be/H06P-Fcx0Go

plot-paris

I have to admit, I didn' read through all posts in this thread.

Has it already been requested to have an "Upright Extrusion" option for the "Loft along Path" tool?

There are plugins out there that can do an upright follow-me operation. But none of them (as far as I know) can morph between two profiles along the way.

Therefore it would be awesome to have this functionality.

WeeDxWackeR

Hey Fredo,

I recently started using curviloft and it worked absolutely great for everything i ever did with it until now...

I'm trying to make a glass rounded swimming pool but for some reason, some edges start moving and others not.

I tried using the move tool to put the edges back where they should be but that ceated a curve that I dont want.

I wish you a great day.

Rayan

a screenshot of the problem

rv1974

Is there way to govern smoothing angle upon loft creation (inside the plugin)?
Out of the box I got too over-smoothed surface
Thanks

pilou

Give more Sections ?

rv1974

Pilou, I don't mean segmentation, I'm talking about surface smoothing (normals)

JClements

Have you tried the Soften Edges dialog?

rv1974

The upper variant (on the attached picture) made with Soften dialog. My humble request is to get this result automatically (like profile builder does) without manual polishing afterwards.

jgb

Turn "Show Hidden Geometry" on. Then using the "shift+Ctrl+erase tool" select the lines you want unsmoothed and unsoftened. You can play with combinations to get smooth unsoft or soft unsmoothed lines and that will take care of your over smoothed surfaces.

Then turn show hidden geometry off.

You can also select any line(s) and change the smooth or soft or hidden attribute in Entity Info.

rv1974

Again, I suggested kind of more intelligent smoothing (similar to follow me or profile builder) IN plugin itself
Edit: extra pic added to illustrate the problem

jgb

The top back edge is also smoothed. If you unsmooth just that line and the one below (in the back) then the top will not be over smoothed.

The only other way you can get less smoothed top surface is to create a small smoothed radius on the top & bottom back edges. The size of the radius will control how much smoothing you do want.

GrahamHowells

Have used your plugins for years. Now I can't load them.
Installation of Fredo6_Curiloft; Freddo6_FredoTools; Freddo6_Joint PushPull;
Subfolder missing.
Tried to install roundcorners from extension manager but it failed.

Tried to install LibFredo6 11.8a. received error message:
“undefined method ‘loadRBS’ for SCF:Module

Any advice on what I should do.

Dave R

You might try updating the Sketchucation Extension Store installation. https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=SketchUcationTools

GrahamHowells

Tried that, then tried to load Roundcorners and got this result:
UnZip Error: Could not unzip archive.

What next???

TIG

When you say you tried 'to load' RoundCorners, how did you do that ?

There are two main ways...

download its RBZ file and use the SketchUp Extension Manager dialog to Install it...
auto-install it using the SketchUcation ExtensionStore³ dialog - find its entry and click to install.

Also remember that Fredo's tools need his LibFredo installing...

Also remember to restart SketchUp after the installations to ensure everything is synced...

After it's all successfully installed there should be tool-menu entries and toolbars etc...

PS: If you have recently updated your SketchUp installation it must be installed by selecting the downloaded installer's exe file, right-click, context-menu > "Run as administrator", with an existing installation choose 'Repair' when prompted...

Installing Windows apps in any other way, e.g. by double-clicking the exe to 'run' it, can lead to all sorts un unpredictable issues, usually affecting folder permissions etc...
Your normal user-account might have admin-powers but it it is not the same as doing it properly.

It does no harm to do the 'Repair'...

GrahamHowells

Thanks for your help, however i have tried all that.
When I start Sketchup the first notice on screen is
"Installation of Fredo6_Curviloft is probably incorrect. Subfolder is missing."

I press OK and then get the same message for FredoTools; JointPushPull and
"Script ToolsOnSurface is loaded but menus will show up only at next startup of Sketchup."

So I start the program again and exactly the same messages occur.

Tried the autp-install again and got the same message again = "UnZip Error: Could not unzip archive."

I'm running 2020 version of Sketchup.
Cheers
Graham

TIG

The UnZIP error message suggests that the destination folder is not fully writable and SketchUp cannot unzip the RBZ archive into it ?
This can be a typical permissions error when an installation was not done using "Run as administrator"

You have not stated categorically that you have done the installation properly, or repaired it later...

Assuming you have repaired things but it's still not working then can you close SketchUp, and then find your Plugins folder which is in the folder
C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2020\SketchUp\
It's hidden by default, but using its path in Windows Explorer should get you there...
Select the Plugins folder icon, right-click > context-menu > Properties > Security
There will be several Group/user names listed - e.g. SYSTEM, maybe-Unknown [SketchUp?], Your user-name and Administrators etc...
Use the Edit... button on each entry in turn.
The entry's Permissions must be ticked to 'Full Control' > under the Allow column
After fixing all of these OK to save the changes, the changes should ripple down to affect any subfolders/files etc...
Restart SketchUp and try reinstalling LibFredo RBZ and any desired RBZ extensions.
Restart SketchUp to sync everything...

Report back...

GrahamHowells

Thanks very much for helping me out Tig,
Unfortunately I followed all your instruction, turned everything off and restarted, Still have the same issue.
Sorry.
Graham

rv1974

I had the same Script "XXXX* is loaded but menus will show up only at next startup of Sketchup" nightmare (with all Fredo's plugins I have. Its not related to Admin rights (at least in my case). IIRC installing the latest FredoGhost helped.