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

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    • charly2008C Offline
      charly2008
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      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
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        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
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          @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
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            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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                d12dozr
                last edited by

                Master programmer + master artisan = 😮 😍

                Wow, fantastic work Fredo and Charly...tutorial please, Charly?

                3D Printing with SketchUp Book
                http://goo.gl/f7ooYh

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                  d12dozr
                  last edited by

                  Excellent Charly, these works really deserve a thread all of their own in the Gallery.

                  3D Printing with SketchUp Book
                  http://goo.gl/f7ooYh

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                    grim
                    last edited by

                    fredo and charly

                    this tool is fantastic, however after reviewing the examples posted by charly i was eager to try them out for myself but when it came time to try step 3 if found that the curviloft menue did not display the same information nor did the black backround profile menu appear i have sinced removed all rubies and reloaded only the latest from you posting to see if i had installed it incorrectly however i get the same responce

                    can you enlighten me as to the problem or is there somthing i am over looking

                    thanks

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                      Jim
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                      I have moved the Curviloft tutorial to the Tutorials Forum - it will hopefully keep both topics more readable.

                      http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=29374

                      Hi

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                      • halroachH Offline
                        halroach
                        last edited by

                        As all of your wonderful plugins!
                        Very nice fredo!

                        FlexTools - Super Quick Windows, Doors, Slats...

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                          dolphus
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                          Fredo I am a big fan of your work, i hang my head in shame and confess that i cannot get the Curvilot to work when i start uo SU i get the following message " Module Curviloft requires LibFredo6 version greater than 35. Current version is 34" but i do have Version 35 in the plugin dir as well as 34 if i remove the 34 many of my other Fredo plugins work is it possible for anyone to diagnose my problem?
                          Thanks in anticipation

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                          • fredo6F Offline
                            fredo6
                            last edited by

                            @grim said:

                            fredo and charly

                            this tool is fantastic, however after reviewing the examples posted by charly i was eager to try them out for myself but when it came time to try step 3 if found that the curviloft menue did not display the same information nor did the black backround profile menu appear i have sinced removed all rubies and reloaded only the latest from you posting to see if i had installed it incorrectly however i get the same responce

                            can you enlighten me as to the problem or is there somthing i am over looking

                            thanks

                            Maybe you just need to click on a junction to get the floating palette appear, if it is your problem.

                            Fredo

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                            • fredo6F Offline
                              fredo6
                              last edited by

                              @dolphus said:

                              Fredo I am a big fan of your work, i hang my head in shame and confess that i cannot get the Curvilot to work when i start uo SU i get the following message " Module Curviloft requires LibFredo6 version greater than 35. Current version is 34" but i do have Version 35 in the plugin dir as well as 34 if i remove the 34 many of my other Fredo plugins work is it possible for anyone to diagnose my problem?
                              Thanks in anticipation

                              Check out if you have a subfolder named LIBFREDO6_Dir_35 in the Plugins directory. Normally, the script automatically select the latest version of LibFredo6

                              Fredo

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                                grim
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                                fredo

                                thanks for the pointers, they work... there seems to be a lot more to using this tool than i realise, i am getting the hang of it slowly

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                                  dolphus
                                  last edited by

                                  Thank you for the quick reply, I thought i had put the folder in i have now and it works
                                  Thank you very much

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                                  • fredo6F Offline
                                    fredo6
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                                    @daniel s said:

                                    Here I make another quick test for loft feature. It´s simple but y really want to know if it would work in this cases.

                                    Daniel S

                                    I missed this one.
                                    Here is the result, with Loft by Spline
                                    Pencil for Loft - Daniel S.gif

                                    Fredo


                                    Pencil for loft.skp

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                                      grim
                                      last edited by

                                      danial

                                      tried you shape file and came up with very different results see attached file

                                      can you enlighten me as to where i am going wrong as i followed your instructions as well as trying one of my own

                                      regards

                                      david


                                      grimshape.skp

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                                        Daniel S
                                        last edited by

                                        You can select all the contours to make the loft:
                                        1.gif
                                        You will see that there is a problem with the default method.. try to change it with the toolbar for different results:
                                        Captura.JPG

                                        Or you can make it in two parts (for this model I wanted this result):
                                        2.gif

                                        Daniel S

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                                          Daniel S
                                          last edited by

                                          The idea was a result like this for that model:
                                          pencil.JPG
                                          Is better to make the loft in parts and not all togheter in a lot of cases.
                                          For example, I´m making a shape where two contours share edges.
                                          1.JPG
                                          2.JPG
                                          it is better to make a loft between 1-2-3, then explode and after that make the loft 4-5 for better results:
                                          3.JPG
                                          4.JPG

                                          I attach the skp to show that if you make a loft of 1-2-3-4-5 the results are not good in this case.

                                          Daniel S


                                          shape.skp

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                                          • fredo6F Offline
                                            fredo6
                                            last edited by

                                            @daniel s said:

                                            The idea was a result like this for that model:
                                            [attachment=6:fuxjwvvf]<!-- ia6 -->pencil.JPG<!-- ia6 -->[/attachment:fuxjwvvf]Daniel S

                                            For the pencil, use the regular Bezier method (first method) instead of Cubic Bezier (default method).
                                            [attachment=0:fuxjwvvf]<!-- ia0 -->Pencil Loft Daniel S.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:fuxjwvvf]
                                            Fredo

                                            PS: for the other shape, there are still some issues when curves are partially overlapping. But it is a good example I can work from.


                                            Pencil Loft Daniel S.png

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