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

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    • R Offline
      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 Offline
        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 Offline
          fredo6
          last edited by

          @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 Offline
            jgb
            last edited by

            @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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            • M Offline
              Mra
              last edited by

              @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
                last edited by

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

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                • Dave RD Offline
                  Dave R
                  last edited by

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                    awkonradi
                    last edited by

                    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?

                    http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=42089

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

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                    • T Offline
                      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 Offline
                        fredo6
                        last edited by

                        @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
                          last edited by

                          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 Offline
                              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 Offline
                                pbacot
                                last edited by

                                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 Offline
                                  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 Offline
                                    cotty
                                    last edited by

                                    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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                                    • jeff hammondJ Offline
                                      jeff hammond
                                      last edited by

                                      @alomphega said:

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

                                      Best Regards,
                                      Guy

                                      you have a tiny line in there at an angle too steep to be picked up by curviloft's autoselection.. (it's in between the red and purple selected lines of your screenshot)

                                      either a) zoom in real close and select that tiny line manually or b) fix the curve so it's continous..

                                      (option b being the best.)

                                      [EDIT] actually, you have more errors going on than just the one i mentioned.. i'm out the door..
                                      someone else can pinpoint them for you 😉

                                      dotdotdot

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                                      • AlomphegaA Offline
                                        Alomphega
                                        last edited by

                                        Just amazing and awesome ! Many thanks cotty ! 😄

                                        Jeff, I tought this, but very difficult to fix and CurviLoft auto-fix function does not seems to work on my so dirty design. I have to re-draw the stuff but I'm not able to do more fine within SU.

                                        Anyway, I have now some material to test and work on.

                                        Best Regards to all, and best wishes !
                                        Guy

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

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                                        • jgbJ Offline
                                          jgb
                                          last edited by

                                          Trion

                                          I concur with Fredo.

                                          What you need to do is take a copy of the chord at the root and scale it to (at least) 1 other rib location near the tip, but just before the tip curve starts.

                                          Then CL skin individually the inner top and outer (tip) top airfoil, then do the bottom in 2 goes as well. Only explode the surfaces after all curves are satisfactory.

                                          Should take all of 5 minutes.

                                          If you have a problem, come back here with your SKP file and I will do a detailed explanation.


                                          jgb

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                                          • T Offline
                                            trion
                                            last edited by

                                            Hello,

                                            Well, it didnt work for me, so here is that file im trying.
                                            Hope you can find out why its not working.

                                            Trion


                                            wing.skp

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