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

TIG

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...]

massimo

Already a must-have plugin. Thank you Fredo.

charly2008

Some ideas with Grow and Curviloft

Untitled.skp

charly2008

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

fredo6

@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

charly2008

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)

Test1.zip

charly2008

The same shape with small modifications

lapx

Thanks Tig! I'll try it out

Didier Bur

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...

fredo6

@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

Didier Bur

@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.

urgen

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

djorkaeff

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

JClements

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?

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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.

pep75

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!

TIG

@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...

autarchos

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)

baz

had a good play with loft by spline today...
...no probs.
its looking abfab. thanks fredo.

ba
win7, (for my sins ). pent4. 3ghz. 3gb ram. nvidea 6600

Didier Bur

Hi Fredo6,

I finally got it to start without a bugsplat. Select edges, spline, and here is the error message:

@unknownuser said:

Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method -' for nil:NilClass> C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/CURVILOFT_Dir_10/CurviloftSpline.rb:953:in spline_matrix_match_point'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/CURVILOFT_Dir_10/CurviloftSpline.rb:930:in spline_matrix_column' C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/CURVILOFT_Dir_10/CurviloftSpline.rb:927:in each'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/CURVILOFT_Dir_10/CurviloftSpline.rb:927:in spline_matrix_column' C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/CURVILOFT_Dir_10/CurviloftSpline.rb:646:in spline_matrix_analyze'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/CURVILOFT_Dir_10/CurviloftSpline.rb:645:in each' C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/CURVILOFT_Dir_10/CurviloftSpline.rb:645:in spline_matrix_analyze'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/CURVILOFT_Dir_10/CurviloftSpline.rb:234:in spline_junction_construct' C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/CURVILOFT_Dir_10/CurviloftAlgo.rb:1371:in junction_construct'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/CURVILOFT_Dir_10/CurviloftAlgo.rb:415:in link_construct_all' C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/CURVILOFT_Dir_10/CurviloftAlgo.rb:415:in each'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/CURVILOFT_Dir_10/CurviloftAlgo.rb:415:in link_construct_all' C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/CURVILOFT_Dir_10/CurviloftAlgo.rb:404:in link_calculate_all'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/CURVILOFT_Dir_10/CurviloftAlgo.rb:377:in prepare_all' C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/CURVILOFT_Dir_10/CurviloftAlgo.rb:368:in proceed'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/CURVILOFT_Dir_10/CurviloftTool.rb:590:in transition_to_loft' C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/CURVILOFT_Dir_10/CurviloftTool.rb:575:in notify_edge_picked'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LIBFREDO6_Dir_35/Lib6EdgePicker.rb:356:in call' C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LIBFREDO6_Dir_35/Lib6EdgePicker.rb:356:in notify_action'
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LIBFREDO6_Dir_35/Lib6EdgePicker.rb:1214:in `click_outside'

Hope this helps you to debug somewhat

fredo6

@didier bur said:

Hi Fredo6,

I finally got it to start without a bugsplat. Select edges, spline, and here is the error message:

I located the problem, but it must depend on the model somehow (most likely the orientation of curves).
I'll put a protection (or an error message) to avoid the bugsplat anyway and will republish.

Fredo