[Plugin] MoveAlong - v1.2b - 07 Jul 14

rviz

so far the best animated film in this season.
.. but it's important to keep it simple.

g_wilson

I really like movealong but have encountered a problem. I am running XP SP3 and Windows 8 both updated to final MS update and SU8. The problem comes when trying to use "Defer mode" and same occurs with either copy or move and plane or vector selected. The wirecage does not appear when a group (simple cube) is selected until I do a zoom then if I move the movealong cursor,the wireframe does not follow it until I do another zoom. Second case - if I select the group the wireframe does not appear until I run the cursor out of the drawing window,then it appears at whatever point I ran out of the dwg area. Then,if I move across the dwg area,the wireframe does not move until I leave the dwg area again and.as before,the wireframe moves to the point at which I left the dwg area. Every other function I have tried so far works just fine.

EDIT: No answer ??

fredo6

NEW RELEASE: MoveAlong v1.1a - 15 May 14

Movealong 1.1 is an update fixing bugs and including:

Remote inferences (as in DrawAlong)
AutoSmooth of new created edges when the selection is deformed by auto-folding

It is published as part of FredTools 1.9a.

See main post of this thread and FredoTools for download.

Fredo

Rich O Brien

Autosmooth support.

Thank you Fred. Much appreciated

fredo6

@rich o brien said:

Autosmooth support.

Thank you Fred. Much appreciated

That was your suggestion, Rich, and it makes a lot of sense.

Fredo

fredo6

NEW RELEASE: MoveAlong v1.1b - 17 May 14

Movealong 1.1 is an update fixing bugs and including:

Remote inferences (as in DrawAlong)
AutoSmooth of new created edges when the selection is deformed by auto-folding

v1.1b fixes a bug preventing to enter architectural units (like 3' 4" ou 5'2 1/4) in the VCB.

It is published as part of FredTools 1.9b.

See main post of this thread and FredoTools for download.

Fredo

dedmin

Pick a component's insertion point when moving.
Move a perpendicular to a curve - grab a center of a face and move it perpendicular to a curve.

Thanks.

fredo6

@dedmin said:

Pick a component's insertion point when moving.

Move a perpendicular to a curve - grab a center of a face and move it perpendicular to a curve.

Thanks.

This is coming

Fredo

dedmin

:tada:

Pixero

Thats very impressive.

rv1974

Is it possible to replicate (via Ruby) the Max'2015 Placement Tools?
The moving object temporallygets the 'gluing' feature, all environment temporally
looses it's group\component structure (and thus becomes a set of primitive surfaces-receivers).

fredo6

@rv1974 said:

Is it possible to replicate (via Ruby) the Max'2015 Placement Tools?
The moving object temporallygets the 'gluing' feature, all environment temporally
looses it's group\component structure (and thus becomes a set of primitive surfaces-receivers).

I believe this is doable.

However, I think this should be in another plugin. The reason is that with Move, you match the origin point picked with a target. If you pick a point of the Component on its top, then the component will be flipped because the picked point will be moved to the underlying surface. So you'll see now the bottom of the component.

The Place function is different and has more to do with detection of collision. The issue is that the top of a component may well be different from its bottom, and thus the Place function will not be accurate for the placement.

Anyway, this is an interesting problem and worth exploring as this is missing in Sketchup.

For the time being, I intend to publish an evolution of MoveAlong with Alignment features, as illustrated in the video below (probably next week as I take a few days off the computer):

Fredo

pilou

fredomax6 !

cotty

it's hard to wait any longer...

fredo6

NEW RELEASE: MoveAlong v1.2a - 18 Jun 14

MoveAlong 1.2 is an update fixing bugs and including:

Alignment mode (useful for preparing a Follow me or chaining curves)

It is published as part of FredTools 2.0a.

See main post of this thread and FredoTools for download.

Fredo

dedmin

See the animated gif:

fredo6

@dedmin

2 questions:

on the problem with MoveAlong, I am unable to reproduce it. Can you reproduce it. If so, do you mind to post or PM me the model with the 2 arcs. Can you also open the Ruby console while you perform the move. Thanks
your set up seems to have a larger font size for the text drawn in the viewport (this is visible in the button palette). Did you tweak anything in the configuration parameters?

Thanks

Fredo

dedmin

Here is the sample file with arcs, circle and freehand drawn curve. Nothing shows in the Ruby console when using the plugin. The large font size is due to the Windows 7 64 bit settings - Display - Set custom text size (DPI) - 125%.
Thanks.
move_along.skp
PP: I noticed something - when turning on Edge styles - Profiles the missing edges are visible!

fredo6

Thanks dedmin for signaling this problem.

I found the cause and fixed it. Edgges resulting from the intersection of the 2 arcs are set with smooth and soft properties. This is an (undesired) side effect of the autosmooth feature.

This will go in a next release

Fredo

fredo6

NEW RELEASE: MoveAlong v1.2b - 07 Jul 14

Movealong 1.2b is an update fixing a bug signaled by dedmin

It is published as part of FredTools 2.0b.

See main post of this thread and FredoTools for download.

Fredo