[Plugin][$] Curvizard - v2.5a - 01 Apr 24

uwesketch

uwesketch wrote:
Is it correct, that when using "Make curves", that now the curve is converted automatically to an arc as well?

Fredo6 wrote:
Correct. I may introduce an option to disable this behavior however.

Since an arc or n-gon (polygon) is as well a curve, it is not wrong to always convert to an arc or polygon, if it is an arc or polygon. I do not see any disadvantage for this.

@unknownuser said:

Any chance that this feature is added as an option to FredoCorner for the generation of the corner edges when rounding using circles?

I understand that you ask for creating curves, possibly arcs when applicable.
I assume that only the rounding edges on rounded borders are to be converted to curves.

Yes, only the corner edges, not as well the inner edges or borders.
To clarify I marked in below picture the edges.
blue marked corner edges to convert to arc

fredo6

@uwesketch said:

Yes, only the corner edges, not as well the inner edges or borders.
To clarify I marked in below picture the edges.
[attachment=0:1u9dg31q]CornerEdges_to_Curves.png[/attachment:1u9dg31q]

Conversion to curve is probably possible.
But be aware that in most cases, this won't be an arc of circle, even if you chose a Circular profile, except in the special cases where the corner is purely made of orthogonal faces.

uwesketch

@unknownuser said:

Fredo6 wrote:
Conversion to curve is probably possible.
But be aware that in most cases, this won't be an arc of circle, even if you chose a Circular profile, except in the special cases where the corner is purely made of orthogonal faces.

Looking already forward to it.
Agree, it will not be in all cases an arc. But it is enough, if the edge to be rounded is perpendicular to the face at the end of the edge.

pilou

Trivial question but...when something is Converted to guides lines with Curvizard
How to make the inverse ?

TIG xLine2line makes that but you must edit the Group generated above and the little black crosses are always living !

So Curvizard don't make this trivial thing ? (i miss maybe something too

fredo6

@pilou said:

Trivial question but...when something is Converted to guides lines with Curvizard
How to make the inverse ?

TIG xLine2line makes that but you must edit the Group generated above and the little black crosses are always living !

So Curvizard don't make this trivial thing ? (i miss maybe something too

Curvizard could do it, but it is supposed to work on true edges.
So that's why the function 'convert Construction Lines to Edges' should live in another plugin. I did not do it because there was some existing, but it is not too complex.

Fredo

pilou

Will be fine and more speedy than research the good plugin, enter the Group, click the lines, kill the cross points, explode the group etc...

Box

Hi Fredo,
I think this has happened since the latest update to libfredo.
If I remember correctly Smooth, Simplify etc previously left the edges welded but now explode the curve. Unless I'm missing an autoweld setting.

fredo6

I can reproduce it. Strange. I am looking into the issue and will come back.

fredo6

Problem of Sketchup curves not constructed fixed with LibFredo6 v9.5d.

Fredo

Box

Thanks Fredo, a very timely fix as always.

fredo6

@box said:

Thanks Fredo, a very timely fix as always.

Thanks for signaling the problem. Strange that nobody complained before, as this comes from a bug in LibFredo6 v9.5c, released on 10 January.

AISmebel

Good afternoon. I had a problem while working with smooth_curve. What can I do to treat him?

https://youtu.be/FqebBna_dmE

fredo6

@aismebel said:

Good afternoon. I had a problem while working with smooth_curve. What can I do to treat him?

There seems to be a bug there, but I cannot reproduce it.

Could you open the Ruby console to check if there are errors.

AISmebel

Good afternoon. I hope that I did everything right.
In SketchUp 2018, I had no such problem.
I think that the problem arose due to the transfer of plugins to SketchUp 2020.
Removing Curvizard, LibFredo and installing it again did not solve the problem.

https://youtu.be/3-dOZ7bfvwY

TIG

@AISmebel

How is your Plugins folder within the ProgramData folder-path ?
The user's Plugins folder in within that user's AppData/Roaming path...
I hope you haven't made it manually ??

Can you try this in the Ruby Console [copy+paste+enter]:
Sketchup.find_support_file('Plugins')
It should return something like:
C:/Users/YOURUSERNAME/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/SketchUp/Plugins

If you have not installed SketchUp properly sometimes folder permissions gets messed up...
Close SketchUp/Layout, find the SketchUp installer exe file's icon [probably in Downloads]
Select it, right-click > context-menu > "Run as administrator"
When prompted choose 'Repair'

This should sort out permissions and paths etc...

Any other way of installing - e.g. double-clicking the exe file to simply 'Run' it is NOT the same thing and can result in weird errors...

AISmebel

Fredo, thank you very much for your help, everything worked for me. I was very pleased that you were able to help me so quickly.
Thank you for your plugins, they are very strong and very useful for many people.
Take this opportunity to answer me another question =>

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=17948&p=657086#p657086

Thanks.

fredo6

NEW RELEASE: Curvizard v2.4b - 10 Feb 20

Curvizard 2.4b is for some bug fixing.

Requirement: LibFredo6 9.5 or above

See Home Page of Curvizard for information and Download.

See Main post of this Curvizard thread for discussion, bug reports and suggestions.

fredo6

@AISmebel

Could you make the test with the same model and configuration with this updated version of Curvizard.

EDIT: release as v2.4b on Sketchucation Extension Store.

Please leave the Ruby console open for potential error messages.

Many thanks

Fredo

Fredo6_Curvizard - v2.4b - 10 Feb 20 - certified - encrypted.rbz

AISmebel

@tig said:

@AISmebel

How is your Plugins folder within the ProgramData folder-path ?
The user's Plugins folder in within that user's AppData/Roaming path...
I hope you haven't made it manually ??

Can you try this in the Ruby Console [copy+paste+enter]:
Sketchup.find_support_file('Plugins')
It should return something like:
C:/Users/YOURUSERNAME/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/SketchUp/Plugins

If you have not installed SketchUp properly sometimes folder permissions gets messed up...
Close SketchUp/Layout, find the SketchUp installer exe file's icon [probably in Downloads]
Select it, right-click > context-menu > "Run as administrator"
When prompted choose 'Repair'

This should sort out permissions and paths etc...

Any other way of installing - e.g. double-clicking the exe file to simply 'Run' it is NOT the same thing and can result in weird errors...

Hey.
I use the SketchUcationTool plugin. It helps me quickly and easily expose my plugins. But I noticed that it works correctly when the plugins are located at the address:
\ ProgramData \ SketchUp \ SketchUp 2018 \ SketchUp \ Plugins
Fredo fixed the bug. Perhaps it was not the location of the plugin.

AISmebel

Good afternoon. I have a problem with Curviloft and Curvizard plugins.
Perhaps the problem arose after updating LibFredo6.
Reinstalling the plugins did not help.
Delivered an earlier version of LibFredo6, the problem is not fixed.
Here is the link to the video: https://youtu.be/H06P-Fcx0Go