[Plugin] Extrude Edges By Vector To Object v1.4 20110528

pilou

The funny of the thing is that works for separate objects in the same time!

EarthMover

Wow, great one TIG. Works great on the testing I did. (There is a project edges tool in the Projections toolset that does something similar, but the new faces remain perpendicular to the object. This is more practical in most cases.)

(Not sure if Rich was hinting or renaming, but an extrude edges by offset would be a very useful addition to the toolset )

Ben Ritter

TIG, thank you once again. You are very generous and very talented.

Bob James

Super addition, TIG, thank you for a great tool set

Wildchild

Awesome toolset man, just one thing, I played around with it a little, and I stopped at this point.
Extrude to object.jpg
Wouldn't it be great if you could extrude any profile by a vector to any multiple objects, and of course the resulting shape is modeled by the objects it is intersecting with? Is this asking too much?

TIG

@wildchild said:

Awesome toolset man, just one thing, I played around with it a little, and I stopped at this point.
Wouldn't it be great if you could extrude any profile by a vector to any multiple objects, and of course the resulting shape is modeled by the objects it is intersecting with? Is this asking too much?

Divide the edges of the edge-set you want to extrude so they are 'small-bits'... so then it'll extrude better... it's very difficult to make the thing 'split' the edges so they extract as desired - I am looking at it...
One way would be NOT to do it as present... but extrude past, then use intersect_with and then delete the parts behind... BUT working out what to erase and what to keep is [almost] as hard as the present method... watch this space [I'm letting the gray-cells process this in 'background-mode'...]

Wildchild

Exactly TIG, performing an automatic extrusion-intersection-deletion would be a possible way, it's complicated though. In both cases being able to automatically add the necessary edges to fit the "shaping" object would make this a killer plugin! thanks for your past and future efforts!

charly2008

Thanks TIG,

another fantastic tool. It made me immediately led to experiments.

Charly

TIG

Here's an updated version http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=331059#p331059
A new algorithm has been added for the intersecting with objects: now walls extend to soffits with additional apex vertices and so on so it extrudes fully to the faces/edges.
'Ghost' extrusions now show intersections as red dots.
The original selection is kept, unless the is group exploded.
ES lingvo updated by Defisto [thanks].
ALSO [same day]:-
a) Additional traps have been added for rare glitches when faced edge-selection was used.
b) Glitch fixed with 'undo' if you reversed faces etc...
c) Glitches fixed with 'commit' and extruding edges inside groups to objects outside.

pilou

The best is the ennemy of the better!

Jean-Luc Clauss

Great work again TIG ! Thank you ! This plugin will be very helpfull for architects.

pilou

If it' very easy to make a volume3D with the extruded line result of the rectangular box

it's less easy for close the horizontal cylinder! (of course the guy is added after!

PS the cool of the plug is that you can make the 2 extrusions in the same time!
(Click on the image if scroolbar)

TIG

Here's another update... several glitches fixed...
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=331753#p331753
Here's another example of extruding lots of walls up to the underside of a complex roof form in one step...

dtrarch

Hi TIG

Very happy to send a thank-you to your profit(?) center but how about a link for PayPal and a path to donate.
This is just a killer add-on and deserves some pay to play $ or =

I think that most use PayPal as an option for payment and perhaps do not use as a funded account.

Thx

dtr

d12dozr

dtrarch, link is in the Plugins > TIGTools folder

TIG

Or you can simply use PayPal.com with info @ revitrev.org - as given in the tools' 'notes'...
PS: miss out the two spaces - they're added to try to foil spambots!
[I know it's a crap account-name... but I also write stuff for 'Revit' - they do pay more money = no one wants the pain - but I love SUp most ]
PPS: Thanks for the recent donations