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    • Dave RD Offline
      Dave R
      last edited by

      Very nice. Your plugin works quite well. May I ask for a modification/addition? Would it be possible to have it also Smooth/Soften curves like the native Follow Me tool does?

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      • Rich O BrienR Offline
        Rich O Brien Moderator
        last edited by

        Hi Caul,

        Awesome script. Thanks for sharing.

        I took some liberties and added you to the Plugin Author pool and uploaded the script to the PluginStore.

        Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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        • pilouP Offline
          pilou
          last edited by

          One more inside the toolbox! 😎
          And cool the unic selection + one click! πŸ‘

          ps Maybe an info Message "Followfy is calculating" will be fine for complex path/profile ! πŸ€“

          Followfy is meaning something ?

          Frenchy Pilou
          Is beautiful that please without concept!
          My Little site :)

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          • pilouP Offline
            pilou
            last edited by

            Does this normal ? (Followme works, Followfy not! )
            Put the profile at an extremity of the path don't change the result!

            followfy_fail.jpg


            followfy_fail.skp

            Frenchy Pilou
            Is beautiful that please without concept!
            My Little site :)

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            • massimoM Offline
              massimo Moderator
              last edited by

              Pilou, from the very fist post of the thread:

              @unknownuser said:

              Followfy works like FollowMe and can be used for any path (except loops)

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              • massimoM Offline
                massimo Moderator
                last edited by

                πŸ‘ πŸ˜„

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                • pilouP Offline
                  pilou
                  last edited by

                  Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah ! 😳

                  And this also don't work because I don't put it at the extremity! 😳

                  followfy_fail1.jpg

                  Now all is fine!
                  Advantage against the FollowMe in this case: select by triple click! 😎

                  followfy_works.jpg

                  Frenchy Pilou
                  Is beautiful that please without concept!
                  My Little site :)

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                  • mitcorbM Offline
                    mitcorb
                    last edited by

                    Nice tool, Caul.

                    @Pilou: "Followfy is meaning something ?" Straightforward answer is similar to the suffix in Quantify- which means apply a quantity to. Or Signify. It's a somewhat informal attachment commonly done in English, but new for the word follow.

                    I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                    • C Offline
                      cadmunkey
                      last edited by

                      Great! could have done with having this yesterday as I had a component in a model that 'follow me' just wouldn't work on.

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                      • Bob JamesB Offline
                        Bob James
                        last edited by

                        Great addition to the toolbox πŸ‘

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                        • pilouP Offline
                          pilou
                          last edited by

                          @Mitcorb Thx! πŸ‘

                          Frenchy Pilou
                          Is beautiful that please without concept!
                          My Little site :)

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                          • sdmitchS Offline
                            sdmitch
                            last edited by

                            CAUL,

                            Having written a similar plugin almost three years ago, I was very curious as to how you did yours. About the only similarity was the projecting of points on bisecting planes at the corners.

                            It is impossible to test for all possible things that could go wrong so when I seemed to find a situation that causes a failure in the mergeCoPlanarFaces method, I thought you might like to know.

                            cop failure a.jpg

                            cop failure b.jpg

                            Left clicking anywhere in the model causes this results to appear.
                            cop failure c.jpg

                            Adding the next statement eliminates the failure but typically, collecting the edges to be deleted and deleting them after all edges are processed, usually works best.

                                es.each { |e|
                            		next unless e.faces[0] && e.faces[1]
                                    vs = e.faces[0].vertices + e.faces[1].vertices
                                    p = Geom;;fit_plane_to_points vs
                                    cop = vs.all? { |v| v.position.on_plane? p }
                                    e.erase! if cop
                                }
                            
                            

                            cop failure.skp

                            Nothing is worthless, it can always be used as a bad example.

                            http://sdmitch.blogspot.com/

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                            • C Offline
                              CAUL
                              last edited by

                              @sdmitch said:

                              Having written a similar plugin almost three years ago, I was very curious as to how you did yours. About the only similarity was the projecting of points on bisecting planes at the corners.

                              Interesting, how did you approach the problem?

                              @sdmitch said:

                              It is impossible to test for all possible things that could go wrong so when I seemed to find a situation that causes a failure in the mergeCoPlanarFaces method, I thought you might like to know.

                              Thanks for the feedback! The mergeCoplanar-method was/is a disaster waiting to happen. I will release an updated version soon.

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                              • C Offline
                                CAUL
                                last edited by

                                @dave r said:

                                May I ask for a modification/addition? Would it be possible to have it also Smooth/Soften curves like the native Follow Me tool does?

                                That's on the TODO-list.

                                @unknownuser said:

                                ps Maybe an info Message "Followfy is calculating" will be fine for complex path/profile !

                                As it happens, almost all time is spent trying to build the geometry with the api method add_face. In this release the geometry is built with triangles. The next release will use rectangles when appropriate (which is almost always) and that will roughly double the speed.

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                                • sdmitchS Offline
                                  sdmitch
                                  last edited by

                                  @unknownuser said:

                                  Interesting, how did you approach the problem?

                                  It is called Edge Follow Me and can be found in the plugins store. It was written in request of a tool that would use an edge/curve profile and do an extrusion.

                                  Nothing is worthless, it can always be used as a bad example.

                                  http://sdmitch.blogspot.com/

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                                  • MatheronM Offline
                                    Matheron
                                    last edited by

                                    Thank you very much, what a great plugin!

                                    Followfy is remarkably more solid than native followme for any tested planar nonlooping path.

                                    Please consider adding solidsolving for non-planar paths.

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                                    • xiombargX Offline
                                      xiombarg
                                      last edited by

                                      Nice! Great plugin.

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