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    [Plugin] Curve Maker v1.2.2 - 7 March 2011

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    • JClementsJ Offline
      JClements
      last edited by

      Great update. Thanks.

      Be slick to have interactive properties for the helix tool'sw diameter and length.

      Any possibility of entering of start and end diameter for a helix?

      John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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      • M Offline
        max-cx
        last edited by

        John -

        Thanks for your encouraging feedback.

        Will the Archimedes Spiral tool provide what you are after? Using the interactive tool, you can enter two radii to establish the rate at which the diameter of the spiral grows and set the height parameter to specify how tall you want the spiral to be - essentially giving you a tapered helix. See attached figure.

        AS with height.jpg

        The Archimedes Spiral option in the dialog box off the Plugins menu offers still more control because it lets you specify the radius at each of two particular numbers of turns - the first and the last in your case.

        Terry
        http://www.drawmetal.com

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        • JClementsJ Offline
          JClements
          last edited by

          I must have overlooked this. Thanks for the quick reply.

          John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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          • dereiD Offline
            derei
            last edited by

            Please help!
            I need to draw a Archimedes Spiral with this specs:

            inner radius: 15mm
            turns: 5
            distance between turns: 2mm

            I got the options panel attached here, but I get lost in it.
            What should I input there to have the desired result?


            Archimedes Spiral.png

            DESIGNER AND ARTIST [DEREI.UK](http://derei.uk/l)

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            • dereiD Offline
              derei
              last edited by

              ERROR !
              After using the plugin several times, I can't use it anymore. Every time I click OK on Parameters input box, it reappears. No error message, no error in Ruby console. It's a loop. Dialog disappear then is back... and so on.

              EDIT: -it happened in the model I was working in. It didn't fixed after close and open. But in new model it worked. It seems that something that was saved inside the model while using the plugin, caused the bug.

              DESIGNER AND ARTIST [DEREI.UK](http://derei.uk/l)

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              • M Offline
                max-cx
                last edited by

                Is this what you are trying to draw?
                Archimedes.jpg

                Terry
                http://www.drawmetal.com

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                • M Offline
                  max-cx
                  last edited by

                  The most likely reason the dialog box keeps reappearing is that you have not entered a valid point for the curve origin. SU will not accept a ~ in any coordinate in a point - each value needs to be exact. The plugin could be friendlier in this regard.

                  Terry
                  http://www.drawmetal.com

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                  • dereiD Offline
                    derei
                    last edited by

                    @max-cx said:

                    The most likely reason the dialog box keeps reappearing is that you have not entered a valid point for the curve origin. SU will not accept a ~ in any coordinate in a point - each value needs to be exact. The plugin could be friendlier in this regard.

                    Indeed I selected a guidepoint and its coordinate was with ~ . And the worse part was that if unselected it, hoping that the spiral to appear on origin, the previous value was retained in the inputbox, so I was triked again by the plugin. Maybe some fixes on that?

                    And yes, that is what I wanted to draw... after some trials and errors I got it (about one hour of playing). But I did it in a different manner, I don't know if that was the correct approach, or yours... I just changed the values until I noticed a pattern πŸ’š.
                    I still don't fully understand what are all that fields in inputbox. So many radii, turns, first turns, second turns... i'm dizzy 😲 . I tried to find the answer in the manual, but I couldn't.

                    DESIGNER AND ARTIST [DEREI.UK](http://derei.uk/l)

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                    • M Offline
                      max-cx
                      last edited by

                      By design, the plugin remembers the previous inputs - including erroneous ones.

                      Perhaps the interactive versions of these tools will be more to your liking. Have you tried the Curve Maker sub-menu on the Draw menu? They might also help you understand what the dialog boxes are prompting for and the additional degrees of control that the dialogs offer.

                      Terry
                      http://www.drawmetal.com

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                      • M Offline
                        max-cx
                        last edited by

                        The Curve Maker plugin has been updated. It can be downloaded from http://www.drawmetal.com/download

                        Given the current Length Units Format, if a guide point coordinate's value can only be approximated (i.e. it displays with ~), then Curve Maker will now display the coordinate value as a decimal length. This should mitigate the problem that dereeei experienced with the curve origin field in the input dialog.

                        Terry
                        http://www.drawmetal.com

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                        • robertWanR Offline
                          robertWan
                          last edited by

                          Does anybody have a version for SU 8?
                          The author doesn't.

                          Robert

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                          • JClementsJ Offline
                            JClements
                            last edited by

                            Try the attached. Hopefully it contains all the required files.


                            ctsMaker.zip

                            John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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                            • robertWanR Offline
                              robertWan
                              last edited by

                              Thank you. πŸ˜„

                              listwy.png

                              cam.jpg

                              Robert

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                                swpuagui
                                last edited by

                                Thank you so much!

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