How to make it pls

pilou

Very more easy with the Fredo plug (tool of the plug above : tapering with orientation box)
You can make hundred levels and taper them in 2 clicks
Here only 16 levels
Green tubes are the special box , of course it disapears at the end of the process

erzane

I tried to install it but it but installation failed...
I dled the zip file
selected all inside the file and pasted it to the ''plugin'' folder, and replaced all
but it dont work, ''installation is failed''
I read on th emanual that fredo scal work with ver.5-7 , but not 8??
th emessage is this

Erreur de chargement du fichier bootstrap_FredoScale.rb
(eval):1: uninitialized constant FredoScale::T6Erreur de chargement du fichier ZLoader__FredoScale.rb
no such file to load -- LibFredo6.rbErreur de chargement du fichier __loader.rb
uninitialized constant Traductor

I am a little bit tired now I will study it better tomorrw if it's ok for you
anyway thanks for all
I will comeback tomorrow
good night

pilou

You must read carrefully the indications of install
There is the folder of programm itself but there also a library to load!
All are in the same first post of the thread!
And see also the image of the same post, there is the arborescence that you must have!

And carreful also: following the Zip program, unzip can produce a level more of folder!
So in this case copy only that is inside the folder

Dave R

Maybe I'm missing something but what's wrong with Follow Me? Seems to me like that would be the simplest approach.

pilou

Yes, but he wants a pyramide from an existing object!

Dave R

Where did you read that, Pilou? I don't see that anywhere in his original post.

What I drew tapers as it goes up.

erzane

Dave R your draw is correct, do you have another technic ?

Philou are you french ?
p.s. si oui c plus simple de parler français car l'anglais ça va mais ça peine un peu dans ce genre d'explications
anyway I will try again to install fredo again

Dave R

Excellent!

The thing your blue arrow is pointing at is the profile and the circle is the path for Follow Me.

I started out with a rectangle on which to draw the profile.
I deleted the unneeded parts of the rectangle, selected the edge of the circle, got Follow Me and clicked on the profile.

It's sort of the reverse of making a section cut from the shape. Draw the section cut and make a shape.

erzane

WOW! is it so easy !!??
it makes it automaticly ?
pls wait a moment , I will try it

Dave R

It is that easy, indeed!

And all done with the native tools. No plugins to install.

Mike Lucey

Well done Dave ..... 'up there for thinking and down there for dancing!'

erzane

so, I made the basis but I didn't succeed to use the follow me tool
the truth is that I didn't understood your explanations well lol

Dave R

The profile needs to be aligned on the radius of the circular path.

Start with the circular path centered on the origin and the rectangular face on a radius of the circle. I delete the face of the circle before running Follow Me because if you don't, there'll be no face created on the bottom of the extrusion.

Thanks, Mike.

erzane

I succeeded it
but I didn't needed to erase the basis circle
I just choosed the follow me tool and pushed ''Alt''

thanks for your help

Dave R

Glad you got it to work.

Now correct the face orientation so the back faces (blue) are inside and delete the circle for the path and you're finished.

erzane

done
now I would like to place it on the center of the circle but I dont know how to center it..

Dave R

Probably the easiest way would be to add some temporary cross hairs at the bottom center of the thing. Then grab the thing at the center with the Move tool and move it to the center of that other circle. It would be best if you make that shape a component and change its axes so they are centered at its bottom center. then bring the component in from the Component browser. See this for reference.

erzane

ok I see, this is the famous glue I learned last year
I forget all about what I learned last year, it's terrific lol
anyway during your reply I do it like this
I erased the circle and created a new one from the basis with the offset tool

Dave R

Good. Now correct the face orientation. Don't be sloppy in your modeling.

pilou

@unknownuser said:

Where did you read that, Pilou? I don't see that anywhere in his original post.

You right for the text
I had interpreted the images! And was right!
And sure your method is more speedy than the FredoScale when you start from the beginning!
But when you have yet the object, that is an another story!