[Plugin][$] JointPushPull Interactive - v4.8a - 30 Mar 24

fredo6

@rv1974 said:

OK. Could you please change this setting it to the offsetones? It would solve all my request without UI bloating. You see, I can Cnrl+C initial faces before JPP execution, and then just paste original faces after JPP is done. This simple hack restores original selection.

The native SketchUp Push Pull does the following

if and only if a face is pre-selected before launching the PP tool...
...its offset fasce is hard-selected when you finished the push pull.
This means that if you wish to push-pull another face right after within the same Push-Pull session, you have to press Escape to deselect.

Is this behavior you want to reproduce with JPP?

rv1974

This is the way I imagine:

Preselect
Run JPP
Hit Enter to exit
Offset faces stay selected

It's very similar to the principle described in Pilou gifs here:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=1523&start=30
but in our case we deal with faces, not lines
P.S. By 'offset faces' I mean case #1 (see my picture above ^^^)

fredo6

@rv1974

Can you have a look at JPP v4.4c.

It selects the offset faces of preselected faces (if any) at exit. This assumes indeed that you perform only one Push Pull operation and then exit.

Fredo

rv1974

Tested right now. Works perfectly, many many thanks! I'll post tomorrow some micro explanation how distribute materials in conjunction with JPP.

fredo6

@rv1974 said:

Tested right now. Works perfectly, many many thanks!

Or take v4.4d...

I made it work even if you perform several push pull operations within the same JPP session.

JPP - Preserve preselection.gif

fredo6

NEW RELEASE: JointPushPull Interactive v4.4d - 20 Feb 19

JointPushPull Interactive 4.4d select the offset faces of pre-selected faces at exit. See post just above.

JointPushPull 4.4b requires LibFredo6 8.7m or above

See plugin home page of JointPushPull for Download of JointPushPull.

Main Post of the JointPushPull thread on this forum

Fredo

rv1974

Fredo, when FollowPushPull is used on chamfer face, is there way to get somehow an exact 'chamfer 0' state?

SpookyChick1013

Massively useful plugins as always Fredo. Had the following error found when attempting round pushpull. Here's the log dump.

Thanks in advance!

Date: 19-Mar-19 09:41:55
An error occurred in Round Push Pull
Error in generation of the geometry

undefined method `collect' for nil:NilClass

jointpushpull4geometry.rbe: 1450 -- geometry_rounding_mesh
jointpushpull4geometry.rbe: 1283 -- block in geometry_create_roundings
jointpushpull4geometry.rbe: 1282 -- each
jointpushpull4geometry.rbe: 1282 -- geometry_create_roundings
jointpushpull4geometry.rbe: 267 -- geometry_robot_prepare_mesh
jointpushpull4geometry.rbe: 211 -- robot_call_action
jointpushpull4geometry.rbe: 182 -- geometry_robot_exec
jointpushpull4geometry.rbe: 165 -- geometry_robot
jointpushpull4geometry.rbe: 80 -- block in geometry_execute
lib6operation.rbe: 365 -- call
lib6operation.rbe: 365 -- step_geometry
lib6operation.rbe: 413 -- start_execution
jointpushpull4geometry.rbe: 80 -- geometry_execute
jointpushpull4tool.rbe: 1034 -- go_preview_or_geom
jointpushpull4tool.rbe: 812 -- dragging_stop

fredo6

@spookychick1013 said:

Massively useful plugins as always Fredo. Had the following error found when attempting round pushpull. Here's the log dump.

You don't seem to have the latest version of JPP (it should be v4.4d).

Could you update it and advise. Thanks.

Fredo

SpookyChick1013

What? Wooops! You're right. I try to keep things updated, but somehow that one slipped past me.

I'll let you know once I've had a chance to test things. Thanks Fredo!

Update"Installed teh new version, made sure everything was updated, no conflicting versions, and presto, the same error.

@unknownuser said:

%(#40BFFF)[Date: 22-Mar-19 11:54:25
An error occurred in Round Push Pull
Error in generation of the geometry

undefined method `collect' for nil:NilClass

jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 1529 -- geometry_rounding_mesh
jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 1362 -- block in geometry_create_roundings
jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 1361 -- each
jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 1361 -- geometry_create_roundings
jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 269 -- geometry_robot_prepare_mesh
jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 212 -- robot_call_action
jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 183 -- geometry_robot_exec
jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 166 -- geometry_robot
jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 81 -- block in geometry_execute
lib6operation.rbe: 365 -- call
lib6operation.rbe: 365 -- step_geometry
lib6operation.rbe: 413 -- start_execution
jointpushpullgeometry.rbe: 81 -- geometry_execute
jointpushpulltool.rbe: 1119 -- go_preview_or_geom
jointpushpulltool.rbe: 845 -- dragging_stop]

It happens whether I use the VCB or not. What I'm trying to do is Round PushPull the faces highlighted in the enclosed sreeen snip
Model snip.PNG
If you need the model, let me know where to send it and I will do so.

Cathryn

HeyJujube

J'ai de gros problèmes avec ce plugin (mode vecteur) sous SketchUp Pro 2019 (Mac 10.14). Problème connu ?
Merci

Capture d’écran 2019-04-05 à 11.30.28.png

fredo6

@heyjujube said:

J'ai de gros problèmes avec ce plugin (mode vecteur) sous SketchUp Pro 2019 (Mac 10.14). Problème connu ?
Merci

Difficile de juger sans le modele. Et, franchement, l'image ne me permet de savoir de quoi il s'agit.

Fredo

HeyJujube

N'importe quel modèle, ici une simple colonne inclinée pour l'exemple.
La face part dans tous les sens, se déforme, "explose".
J'ai toujours utilisé le plugin, mais récemment passage à SU 2019 sous Mac.
Merci

fredo6

@heyjujube said:

N'importe quel modèle, ici une simple colonne inclinée pour l'exemple.
La face part dans tous les sens, se déforme, "explose".
J'ai toujours utilisé le plugin, mais récemment passage à SU 2019 sous Mac.
Merci

it looks like the Vector direction is on the plane of the face.
Could you either lock an axis direction with the arrows, or find a proper direction and lock it (Shift).

theVonZipper

Thanks Fredo for the fantastic plugins. I use 'Divide faces' often and of course Joint Push Pull. Just wondering, is there a way for Push Pull Interactive to inherit layers from the faces they are affecting as the Classic version did?

Dave R

Faces and edges should always be created on and remain on Layer 0. See Controlling Visibility with Layers.

Einstein

Hi!

I have an idea for a small feature upgrade.
Actually, two ideas ^^

Possibility to apply positive + negative offset in one go, so you can thicken a surface on both sides immediately
Extrude faces to point, like in Rhino. It would be almost analogic operation to scaling about a point which can be performed via ThomThom's Rotate and Scale. However, you'd then have to manually connect border edges of source and result meshes. Rhino has a tool which does everything in one step. I attach an illustration for it.

What do you think about it?

extrude about point - request.png

fredo6

@einstein said:

Possibility to apply positive + negative offset in one go, so you can thicken a surface on both sides immediately

This is doable, though not trivial, because I have two generate two faces for each original face. It would also require an additional option, maybe triggered by a modifier; the only left is ALT (on Windows)

@einstein said:

Extrude faces to point, like in Rhino. It would be almost analogic operation to scaling about a point which can be performed via ThomThom's Rotate and Scale. However, you'd then have to manually connect border edges of source and result meshes. Rhino has a tool which does everything in one step. I attach an illustration for it.

This would be a new tool actually. I need to think about it, but a priori an interesting idea.

Einstein

Could you please increase extreme angle values for Molding in the next release? Now it's +- 60, which is a serious limitation in some cases. I'd suggest 89 or even 90 - this would practically create a flat offset (nice!). Certainly, faces would overlap but that could be fixed manually.

fredo6

@einstein said:

Could you please increase extreme angle values for Molding in the next release? Now it's +- 60, which is a serious limitation in some cases. I'd suggest 89 or even 90 - this would practically create a flat offset (nice!). Certainly, faces would overlap but that could be fixed manually.

If the angle is too large, then you are almost sure to get overlaps and mess up the extrusion.

Here is what I get with the set of letters, each one of width roughly 0.5 m. I had to reduce the offset of extrusion to 0.001 m (that is, 1mm) to get a molding at 85 deg. without overlap.

JPP Molding at 85 deg.png

With an offset of 1cm, the extrusion gets seriously messy

JPP Molding at 85 deg - mess.png

I can increase it to 89 degrees. At 90, you reach math limit, since there is NO extrusion, and JPP does not like it. So, I'll probably pick 85 degrees, to make it a multiple of the 5 deg increment in a next release.

Fredo