[Plugin] Stepped Extrude [Updated 20121106]

[boofredlay]

Nice. A much needed tool.

[rami_lpm]

It's updated. Thanks for that snippet.

[JGA]

Great idea, thanks (again).

[srx]

Thanks! It could be useful for making stairs also... or SU logo

[Ben Ritter]

Thank you Ramiro.

[pilou]

Cool!
Works fine with the Multiple Offset by Sdmitch

[pilou]

Have you the same but only for lines ? ( with no PushPull of faces )
Like this
only lines are moving with Stepped Extrude , and there is no creation of faces !

like a creation of levels of terrain for example

[pbacot]

Pilou, The first post claims this is possible. I haven't tried. Peter

[pilou]

No it's draw also a face when you click a line like when you click on a face!

I just want stepp the lines !

[sumaster]

Hi rami_lpm AND sdmitch,

a Need of previous history Amount/Distance . . . .

means create 2 face and use this tool and 1st face extrude 1 m. and 2nd face extrude the same amount . . .

now its not working . . . . .

thanks . . . .

[bsintzel]

Simple, functional, useful and free...what more can one ask for. Well done

[rv1974]

The perfect fuse of simplicity and effectiveness.
Salute to the authors.

[icepam]

Thanks for a much useful plugin. I had coded something similar in AutoLisp a few years ago to do this in Autocad, precisely for stairs and contours.

@rami_lpm said:

@pbacot said:

... interpret the height of contours in plan by the user drawing a section line.

This sounds very complicated, I'll see what I can do.

I think this could be simpler than it sounds, maybe one of the forum's rubymasters could help out with the code. Here's how i would imagine it:
Method 1, should work with lines:
-User draws a line across the contours he wishes to raise and sets H=riser height.
-Plugin figures if it's a generally horizontal or vertical line (is that necessary?)
-Plugin finds all intersection points and makes an array ordered based on their X (or Y?) coordinate
-Plugin traverses array raising each line by H x its index in the array.

Method 2, perhaps this is the solution for faces?
-User selects all faces that need to be raised (by window or select all or whatever... if one by one, it's just the current method)
-User draws a line L through all said faces
-Plugin filters out non-faces from selection and makes an array as above, ordered by X or Y coordinate of mid-point of segment created by intersection between line L and each face.
-Plugin traverses and raises as above.

Hope this makes sense!

[pilou]

No possibility to add the other options? As asked in my old request here

Now we have a =a + x

[caronte01]

Great simple tool, perfect for stairs. Will try it as soon as I have a chance!

Thanks!

santiago

[rami_lpm]

icepam: I'm a bit math-challenged, so it will take some time.
pilou: It really should work with lines. About your request, what does the 'list' option do?
Thanks everyone for the comments

[pilou]

@unknownuser said:

what does the 'list' option do?

Like in this Multiple Offsets by Sdmitch

You enter a list in a dialog box like 5,17,22,10 etc...
At each click the PushPush take a nomber in the list
so first click is 5
second click 17
etc...
and then after the 10 that will be the 5
etc...

PS You can also have a random option one in a list given or out of a list (Mini-maxi)!

here the list was 10,20,30,50* (the * indicated the last number)

[qingtong]

thanks very much！

[greenskp]

Thank you very much rami_lpm. Very usefull and saved my life in actual job.
It's possible that commit_operation undo all steps instead one by one?

[Emad12]

Thanks