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    • fredo6F Offline
      fredo6
      last edited by

      Rachmatrf,

      Can you post your model so that I get a better view of your situation.

      Also watch the videos to get some inspiration on how to select contours. Documentation is in my plan, but you can at least get some visual hints.

      Fredo

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      • OxerO Offline
        Oxer
        last edited by

        @unknownuser said:

        Fredo wrote,
        Where can I find this plugin svg and set.rb? I'd like to see where the conflict comes from.

        Hi Fredo6, this is the plugin "svg.rb" for import svg files into sketchup, the plugin need other files included in the folder, the "set.rb" is the conflict file with Curviloft.

        svg.rb & set.rb, rexml folder, forwardable.rb

        "The result is the end what is important is the process" by Oxer
        [http://www.oxervision.blogspot.com/(http://www.oxervision.blogspot.com/)]

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          rachmatrf
          last edited by

          Thank you very much for your quick reply, and forgive me for this late reply. I've just busy with the office and didn't notice if your reply was very quick.

          Well, I think it's not about the model. the problem is that I can't make the model using curviloft, because I can only select one segment of a curve. I can't select the whole curve/spline...
          I already watch the tutorial video on youtube. I just follow the given instructions. But, still I can't select the whole curve or the whole spline.

          Here I attach the situation of my "all curves selection disability"... I hope this will give you a better view of my problem.
          http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=50224

          Thanks before. And I do apologize if I just missed a basic setting to solve this...


          Any idea what's going on with this?

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          • fredo6F Offline
            fredo6
            last edited by

            @rachmatrf said:

            Well, I think it's not about the model. the problem is that I can't make the model using curviloft, because I can only select one segment of a curve. I can't select the whole curve/spline...

            Could you open the Ruby console and check if there are some errors reported there.
            The situation is rather strange however.
            I would suggest you try with the other tools to see if you have something similar. All tools share a large part of the selection processing code, and this would help me to better figure out where this could come from.

            Fredo

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            • fredo6F Offline
              fredo6
              last edited by

              TIP: COLOR OF THE PREVIEW MESH(SU7 only)

              In SU7, the color of the preview mesh may appear in pale gray, so that you do not see well the grid lines. If so,

              • just turn on and off the Shadows.
              • This should make the mesh surface black
              • Normally, you only need to do it once per SU session

              Fredo

              Note: there is a bug or missing feature in the SU API concerning the drawing of surface in 3D space. There is no control of the color. In SU6, it is always black. In SU7, the color is influenced by the shadow settings and sun shading. This bug / limitation has already signaled to the SU team a while ago. It is ennoying, because it limits teh capacity to develop more interactive plugins (in particular surface nurbs, if ever I engage in this path).

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              • C Offline
                chango70
                last edited by

                😲

                SketchyRhino

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                • G Offline
                  gophatecture
                  last edited by

                  Awesome work on this plugin!

                  Is there a way to apply a material with a pattern, so the patterns align. ie the metal panelled exterior of Gehry's Experience Music Project in Seattle.

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                  • R Offline
                    rachmatrf
                    last edited by

                    @unknownuser said:

                    Could you open the Ruby console and check if there are some errors reported there.
                    The situation is rather strange however.
                    I would suggest you try with the other tools to see if you have something similar. All tools share a large part of the selection processing code, and this would help me to better figure out where this could come from.

                    Hi Fredo,

                    At the first, I was thinking that there's something wrong with the copy I got, so I downloaded a fresh new copy and replaced the old one in the plugins directory. But the problem still remains.

                    As you suggest, I just checked the ruby console and found no error there. I already tried other tools as well, and the selection's just fine. Here I attach the selection using RoundCorner tool (which is another awesome work of yours). I found no problem using this tool. Is it because I am using SU7?

                    Thank you so much.

                    Best Regards...


                    blank ruby console


                    selection using RoundCorner

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                    • charly2008C Offline
                      charly2008
                      last edited by

                      A SCF crown for all the excellent Ruby programmers. Curviloft opens up new design possibilities.


                      SCF Crown.jpg


                      SCF Crown1.jpg

                      He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                      • fredo6F Offline
                        fredo6
                        last edited by

                        @charly2008 said:

                        A SCF crown for all the excellent Ruby programmers. Curviloft opens up new design possibilities.

                        Charly,

                        You are rather a magician. I had no idea that the plugin could generate all this marvelous shapes. So I guess that on top of the technical capability of curviloft you have added a lot of artistic sense. 👍

                        Fredo

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                        • charly2008C Offline
                          charly2008
                          last edited by

                          Hi Fredo,

                          Your words make me a little bit proud. That motivates me very much to continue. I am only the craftsmen who tries to find some practical applications for this tool. But i'm Sure also other members will present their ideas in the forum. Below another Example.

                          Thanks

                          Fredo


                          SCF Crown2.jpg


                          SCF Crown3.jpg

                          He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                          • TIGT Offline
                            TIG Moderator
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                            Karl Hauser

                            You are a "genius"*** - quite wonderful work - you MUST make a tutorial immediately !!!
                            ***Compared to Fredo that's better than good!

                            ☀

                            TIG

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                            • EscapeArtistE Offline
                              EscapeArtist
                              last edited by

                              • 1 for the tutorial request.

                              Wow. That is some delicate looking work. I never would've thought to use this curviloft for something like that.

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                              • thomthomT Offline
                                thomthom
                                last edited by

                                +1

                                Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                • mitcorbM Offline
                                  mitcorb
                                  last edited by

                                  To Fredo6 and testers:
                                  Excellent!

                                  I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                                  • charly2008C Offline
                                    charly2008
                                    last edited by

                                    Hi,

                                    thanks for your nice comments. I'm going next week to prepare a small tutorial. The workflow is very simple.

                                    Charly

                                    He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                                      Pherim
                                      last edited by

                                      Absolutely great plugin! But it only worked for me after I deleted this plugin: http://www.cerebralmeltdown.com/projects/sunplugin/

                                      This is not very bad as I never used it but I was still surprised about this. Maybe you can find out why this happened. At first, whenever I wanted to use your plugin, Sketchup immediately crashed without any error message whatsoever. Now it works fine, thoug.

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                                      • fredo6F Offline
                                        fredo6
                                        last edited by

                                        @pherim said:

                                        Absolutely great plugin! But it only worked for me after I deleted this plugin: http://www.cerebralmeltdown.com/projects/sunplugin/

                                        This is not very bad as I never used it but I was still surprised about this. Maybe you can find out why this happened. At first, whenever I wanted to use your plugin, Sketchup immediately crashed without any error message whatsoever. Now it works fine, thoug.

                                        This plugin is an example of what should never be done. It replaces methods or add methods to basic Ruby classes String, Float (replaces the Round method) and Numeric. Whatever is the intention, it may end up with conflicts with other plugins, because every script shares the same Ruby environment.
                                        This said, I have no clue why it does make Curviloft crash, because apart from the above, the script is well encapsulated in its own module.

                                        Fredo

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                                        • thomthomT Offline
                                          thomthom
                                          last edited by

                                          hm... that is a concern. we should contact the developers.

                                          Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                          • charly2008C Offline
                                            charly2008
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi,

                                            here some variations of rings


                                            Ring1.jpg


                                            Ring2.jpg


                                            Ring3jpg.jpg


                                            Ring4.jpg

                                            He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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