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

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    • Dave RD
      Dave R
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      I don't see any images.

      Etaoin Shrdlu

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      • xiombargX
        xiombarg
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        Hey thanks for this plugin Fredo. It's by far my favorite surface generating plugin. Great work.

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          Mra
          last edited by

          Hi,

          While using this tool there seems to be white text? I can't read the instrucctions 😞


          Untitled-1.jpg

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          • thomthomT
            thomthom
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            That's due to a limitation in the SketchUp API. Screen text take on the colour of your edges. You'd have to temporarily use a different style that doesn't have a white edges.

            @Fredo: one workaround for you could be to detect the edge colour setting and swap between light and dark background.

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

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              RaySteve
              last edited by

              Thank you my friend! this tool is AMAZING!!!!!!
              I appreciate your hard work very very much. tools like these make sketchup do crazy stuff man!!
              once again thanksssssssssssssssss to the developers and any one else

              👍

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              • jgbJ
                jgb
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                Fredo

                Any progress on implementing a contour error check and reporting ❓ ❓ ❓

                I just spent an hour redrawing almost the entire contour, endpoint to endpoint to eliminate a single totally invisible .001 inch extra line fragment error. Yet when I first selected the lines using Skinning, I got solid yellow all around. Hitting the Checkmark either gave me a red perimeter, or nothing at all.

                I also noticed that if I am selecting edges using the Skinner, and zoom in past seeing the edges selected, when I pan or zoom out the selection (yellow) sometimes get lost and the next line selected is red or purple. If I reselect the lines they are okay, and the previous selections reappear.


                jgb

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                • fredo6F
                  fredo6
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                  @jgb said:

                  Fredo

                  Any progress on implementing a contour error check and reporting ❓ ❓ ❓

                  I provided some elements of cleansing in Curvizard::Clean up. Part of it is integrated into Curviloft as well (you may get a message).

                  Fredo

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                  • jgbJ
                    jgb
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                    @unknownuser said:

                    I provided some elements of cleansing in Curvizard::Clean up. Part of it is integrated into Curviloft as well (you may get a message).

                    Fredo

                    I really need to spend some time to learn some new tricks. Curvizard is in my update SU list, like a bunch of other stuff. 😒


                    jgb

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                      Mra
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                      @thomthom said:

                      That's due to a limitation in the SketchUp API. Screen text take on the colour of your edges. You'd have to temporarily use a different style that doesn't have a white edges.

                      D'oh! Thank you for the help.

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                        awkonradi
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                        Would someone please direct me to a "Donate" button for this plug-in?

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                        • Dave RD
                          Dave R
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                            awkonradi
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                            EDIT: Sorry, I just found the Fredo6 at PayPal menu item in Curviloft. All set here.

                            Thank you Dave R.

                            Do you recommend I install this plug-in, in order to follow your instructions?

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                            That would be fine. I just want to do this right.

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                              trion
                              last edited by

                              Hello, i really like this script, but i have 1 little thing i cant seem to get it right.
                              Its a airfoil of a wing and 2 path, with the sweep function i only can select 1 path.
                              How can i make this work that the airfoil stays between the 2 path??

                              Best ragards,

                              Trion


                              wing.jpg

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                              • fredo6F
                                fredo6
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                                @trion said:

                                Hello, i really like this script, but i have 1 little thing i cant seem to get it right.
                                Its a airfoil of a wing and 2 path, with the sweep function i only can select 1 path.
                                How can i make this work that the airfoil stays between the 2 path??

                                Best ragards,

                                Trion

                                You cannot do it in one pass, because there are 2 surfaces to generate.

                                So Use Skinning and select the 4 contours on the top side, and again the 4 contours on the bottom side.

                                Fredo

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                                  trion
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                                  Got it, thank you so much !!

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                                    trion
                                    last edited by

                                    Hello Fredo6

                                    I made a small donation to your account, because of the great scripts and support.

                                    Thank you so much.

                                    Trion

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                                    • AlomphegaA
                                      Alomphega
                                      last edited by

                                      Hello Fredo,

                                      I have almost the same thing to do : a wing - but this time curved like a kitesurf wing.

                                      I have yet done this with a triangular half wing and CurviLoft worked fine for this with 3 edges, but since I have added some right tips to do a trapezoidal half wing, I'm not able to re-do the miracle.

                                      The problem : I would like to make a skin on the upper face following the tailing and the leading edges as rails, with the upper half of a foil as upper skin shape, then end flat to the tip.

                                      In attachment you will find the half of the wing I talk about :
                                      The purple is the upper half foil shape, the dark red is the tailing edge, the dark green is the leading edge and the green is the tip.

                                      This happen after I select Tailing and leading edges as 1 & 2, then clic, then select upper foil shape and tip as 3 & 4, then "skinning" : nothing happens.
                                      The same trying almost all other selecting orders.

                                      Could you take a look and tell me were I'm wrong please ?

                                      Best Regards,
                                      Guy


                                      Test CurviLoft 'skin'

                                      Guy Capra, http://www.nauticaerium.com
                                      Non je ne suis pas un "Géo Trouvetou", juste un "Géo... Zéchercher" ! ;)

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                                      • pbacotP
                                        pbacot
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                                        I mocked-up something similar to your picture and can't get it to fail. Seeing as I can make a number of things fail, perhaps you should post your SU file, to see what it is exactly. But the way I am doing it is: I just select all of it and pick the skinning tool.

                                        MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                                        • AlomphegaA
                                          Alomphega
                                          last edited by

                                          Thank you very much for your try to help pbacot,
                                          here in attachment you will find a SKP file with the half kite wing a talk about to test it.


                                          HalfKiteWing (SkinningTest).skp

                                          Guy Capra, http://www.nauticaerium.com
                                          Non je ne suis pas un "Géo Trouvetou", juste un "Géo... Zéchercher" ! ;)

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                                          • cottyC
                                            cotty
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                                            Something like this? I used TIGs Extrude Edges by Rails (EEbyR)...


                                            kitewing_eebyr.jpg


                                            HalfKiteWing (SkinningTest)_2.skp

                                            my SketchUp gallery

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