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

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    • fredo6F Offline
      fredo6
      last edited by

      Here is the Moebius ribbon with closure
      Curviloft Moebius.png

      Fredo


      Moebius - curviloft.skp

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      • H Offline
        hgdn
        last edited by

        Fredo,
        Great impact for SU users in creating 3d models. With yours I am not afraid of creating 3d models from now on..still new!!! Easy and powerful plugins eventhough you give bug warnings but I have not seen any thing so far!!
        Genius and generous Fredo 😄

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        • R Offline
          Ruturaj
          last edited by

          Thank you Fredo Sir,

          you are great
          Many Many Many THANK you.

          I'm shocked man 😲

          This plugin is very helpful thank you.
          😍 👍 😄 😉

          Thanks,
          RuturaJ

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          • TIGT Offline
            TIG Moderator
            last edited by

            @lapx said:

            I've tried it as well. Thanks Fredo for such a wonderful. Can you get it to maintain a sharp edge? I noticed it round the corners. Would be nice to have this as an option if available.

            These tools do work very well.... 💚
            The form is auto-smoothed ? You can always select the resultant group and right-click > soften, and set sliders to 0 and all edges will un-smooth/un-soften etc...
            or view > hidden_geometry toggle to 'on' and use erase+ctrl+shift to un-soften wiped edges [also remember that erase+ctrl softens wiped edges and erase+shift hides wiped edges - but you must select hidden lines to unhide them using entity info, as there is not erase >> unhide equivalent key-combo...]

            TIG

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            • massimoM Offline
              massimo Moderator
              last edited by

              Already a must-have plugin. Thank you Fredo. 👍

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              • charly2008C Offline
                charly2008
                last edited by

                Some ideas with Grow and Curviloft


                Grow.JPG


                Untitled.skp

                He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                • charly2008C Offline
                  charly2008
                  last edited by

                  In some forms it comes to interesting but not unanticipated results.


                  Unbenannt.JPG

                  He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                  • fredo6F Offline
                    fredo6
                    last edited by

                    @charly2008 said:

                    In some forms it comes to interesting but not unanticipated results.

                    Charly,

                    There are still missing features in Loft along Path, in particular about spiral specific treatments.
                    But if you can post your model, I can have a look and see if this can be handled.

                    Thanks

                    Fredo

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                    • charly2008C Offline
                      charly2008
                      last edited by

                      Hi Fredo,

                      attached you wil have a similar model because the first one i have deleted. I selected each segment separately. Thanks again for your plugin, thanks for your efforts.

                      Karl (Charly)


                      Unbenannt.JPG


                      Test1.zip

                      He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                      • charly2008C Offline
                        charly2008
                        last edited by

                        The same shape with small modifications


                        Unbenannt.JPG

                        He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                        • L Offline
                          lapx
                          last edited by

                          Thanks Tig! I'll try it out 🎉

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                          • Didier BurD Offline
                            Didier Bur
                            last edited by

                            Hi Fredo,

                            I get a bugsplat EVERYTIME I try to "loft by spline", no matter the method used. Any possible conflict with other plugins ?

                            F: J'ai un bugsplat directement après avoir cliqué l'icône, quelle que soit la méthode de sélection que j'utilise pour les faces, contours, chemins, etc. Est-ce qu'il y a à ta connaissance un conflit possible avec un autre plugin (ceux de TIG par exemple, qui font un job similaire ?).
                            Je suis scotché, là...

                            DB

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                            • fredo6F Offline
                              fredo6
                              last edited by

                              @didier bur said:

                              Hi Fredo,

                              I get a bugsplat EVERYTIME I try to "loft by spline", no matter the method used. Any possible conflict with other plugins ?

                              At what step do you get the bug splat: selection, preview, generation of geometry?
                              Is it with any model?

                              I don't think there are conflicts with other plugins, and anyway not TIG's ones, because I have them in active my environment.

                              Fredo

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                              • Didier BurD Offline
                                Didier Bur
                                last edited by

                                @Fredo6: at any time, either in a blank new model, or in a model with geometry in it.
                                The bugsplat occurs as soon as I click on the icon, once I have selected contours or faces and the path (no problem with selection. 😲

                                I'm considering to start with an empty Plugins folder (except curviloft of course 😄 ) to see what happens.

                                DB

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                                • urgenU Offline
                                  urgen
                                  last edited by

                                  ...Oh, Fredo,thank you very much! 👍

                                  --pupil forever...------

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                                  • D Offline
                                    djorkaeff
                                    last edited by

                                    Very good and promising plugin. Thank you for your effort and generosity!

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                                    • JClementsJ Offline
                                      JClements
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi Fredo:

                                      Is there anyway, once the surface group is created, that it could store the Curviloft parameters used? That way the user, if they had not completed all the surfacing, could verify and reuse those settings at a later time.

                                      Perhaps there could be an eyedropper that could "suck up" the values of an existing surface-group and paste them into the Curviloft dialog?

                                      =========

                                      I have been doing a bit of testing using contours from CAD and comparing the results with the Sandbox tool. I was not able to reduce the total curviloft surfaces (triangles and quadrangles) between contour elevations compared to the triangulated surfaces sandbox creates BUT Curviloft places its surfaces where they SHOULD BE unlike Sandbox which places surfaces that "bridge" across vertices of the same elevation ...that is a big time saver.

                                      John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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                                      • pep75P Offline
                                        pep75
                                        last edited by

                                        This is a brilliant Plug-In...Super. Fredo fantastic!!! This is just what SU needed, just that little extra spline modelling tool. And for free! Better then the Booltools where you'll have to pay for and works 25% of the time...

                                        Fredo you're my hero!

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                                        • TIGT Offline
                                          TIG Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          @pep75 said:

                                          This is a brilliant Plug-In... And for free! ...

                                          Please remember that although many of the scripters, like Fredo, do publish their tools freely, there is often a PayPal 'Donation' available - so you can give Fredo a little something, if you think he's worth it [which he is!] - I'm sure he won't object... 😉

                                          TIG

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                                          • A Offline
                                            autarchos
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi Fredo -

                                            I am having the same problem as Didier with bugsplats. I am able to make geometry selections, but the moment I attempt a loft by spline, SU crashes.

                                            This occurs only on PC for me - the plugin works fine on Mac (both platforms have the latest version of SU)

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