[Plugin][$] FredoSpline - v2.6a - 01 Apr 24

fredo6 · 6 Mar 2024, 09:04

The information on FredoSpline is maintained on the Plugin Home Page of FredoSpline . This is also where you can download the RBZ file.

LibFredo6: v14.3b or above
Sketchucation ExtensionStore: v4.4.0 or above (for licensing)
Sketchup version: SU2017 and above
Platform: Windows and Mac OSX
Usage: Licensed under Sketchucation SCFLicense
Free Trial period (full features): 15 days from activation
Perpetual license (3 seats): $30 (~28€)
Rush license (3 seats, valid 21 days from purchase date): $8 (~7€)

To purchase the license of FredoSpline, go to this page and sign in.

If you land on this page and are unfamiliar with how to install Sketchup Extensions such as LibFredo6 or how to register on Sketchucation, please watch this video or refer to the Plugin page of LibFredo6 .

FredoSpline is a suite of tools dedicated to handling a variety of curves based on control points.

Bezier, Classic and Nurbs
Fit Spline, local and global
Polyline with division pattern
Polycorner, which are polylines with configurable corners at vertices

When you run FredoSpline for the first time, the toolbar shows only 5 icons

You can however configure the toolbar to show more icons. Here is the full toolbar

CREDIT: JClementsfor all icons and cursors

For each tool, there is an online help in the Instructor panel. You can print it.

Here are the corresponding PDF:

FredoSpline - Instructor - Creation.pdf
FredoSpline - Instructor - Edition.pdf
FredoSpline - Instructor - Swap.pdf
FredoSpline - Instructor - Convert.pdf
FredoSpline - Instructor - Purge.pdf

pilou · 21 Apr 2020, 20:04

A new futur hit! What a museum of curves!

rv1974 · 22 Apr 2020, 07:19

I can't believe it's made by single person. Monumental!

Didier Bur · 22 Apr 2020, 07:23

Impressionnant
Tout ce que SketchUp devrait comporter comme outils natifs, Fredo le fait...

Impressive
Almost all what SketchUp should encompass natively is developed by Fredo...

johnnygitarr · 22 Apr 2020, 11:40

Hi Fredo6,

another unbelievable useful new plugin from you.
1.000 thnx and big thumbs up!

but i do have problems with the plugin on my mac
macOS 10.15.4 (Catalina) and SKP 20.0.362.

SKP crashes while i try to use the plugin.

I think i can delete Fredo's Bezierspline now, or?

Greetings and many thnx again for your effort for the SKP community.
Toby

fredo6 · 22 Apr 2020, 12:15

@johnnygitarr said:

but i do have problems with the plugin on my mac
macOS 10.15.4 (Catalina) and SKP 20.0.362.

SKP crashes while i try to use the plugin.

I could not test on Mac since I don't have one.
Could you tell me more about the crash.

@johnnygitarr said:

I think i can delete Fredo's Bezierspline now, or?

I suggest you keep it. I maintain it, although there won't be functional evolutions.

rv1974 · 22 Apr 2020, 12:17

Fredo,
*) In other, de-facto standard programs like Max and Pshop, one spline can include all 4 types of points: bezier corner, bezier, corner, smooth, corner. Is this general type of spline possible?
A singlemouse click creates corner point, continuousmouse click creates bezier point. Is it possible to implement in FredoSpline?
*) May Undo last point be with Backspace key?
*) Can moving handle grips aside control pitching (like in attached gif)?
Thank you for attention

fredo6 · 22 Apr 2020, 13:11

@rv1974 said:

In other, de-facto standard programs like Max and Pshop, one spline can include all 4 types of points: bezier corner, bezier, corner, smooth, corner. Is this general type of spline possible?
A singlemouse click creates corner point, continuousmouse click creates bezier point. Is it possible to implement in FredoSpline?

Not clear to me what this means...and I don't have these software to compare.

@rv1974 said:

May Undo last point be with Backspace key?

Backspace is used to remove inference visuals. Undo is more natural with Ctrl-Z or Escape

@rv1974 said:

Can moving handle grips aside control pitching (like in attached gif)?

Maybe this is because I have a small screen, but I found that grasping the tangent for rotation and having a handle on the same tangent segment was not very handy.

johnnygitarr · 22 Apr 2020, 14:17

Hi Fredo6,

I wish I could describe the crash more then the following words:

The only thing I can say is, that when I click on a FredoSpline icon
and then click on the drawing area to draw, then SKP crashes immediately.

No Beachball, no other info.

Greetings

fredo6 · 22 Apr 2020, 14:27

Do you see the button palette appearing?

Does it happen for any icon?

Can you start the Quick Launcher?

johnnygitarr · 22 Apr 2020, 15:33

HIi Fredo,

Palette is visible and i did my changes to show every icon,
but i havn't tried every icon yet.

Dunno what you mean with Quicklauncher!?
If it is the Fredo-Menu of the plugin, then i can say no.
Plugin crashes SKP before Quicklauncher is acitve.

It might be useful if another Mac user would try the plugin,
maybe it is a special thing on my machine.

Greetings
Toby

Oxer · 23 Apr 2020, 05:04

On macOS 10.13.6 & SU2017 the plugin doesn't work, I can init the Quick Launcher, the icons and the Contextual Menu appear but when you push some icon nothing happens, I looked into Console but it's empty.

pascal1964 · 24 Apr 2020, 14:08

Génial que de belles courbes!

jranly · 24 Apr 2020, 16:12

@johnnygitarr said:

HIi Fredo,

Palette is visible and i did my changes to show every icon,
but i havn't tried every icon yet.

Dunno what you mean with Quicklauncher!?
If it is the Fredo-Menu of the plugin, then i can say no.
Plugin crashes SKP before Quicklauncher is acitve.

It might be useful if another Mac user would try the plugin,
maybe it is a special thing on my machine.

Greetings
Toby

I'm having the same problem with the plugin on my Mac. Click the icon, then Sketchup disappears/crashes.

jranly · 24 Apr 2020, 16:19

@jranly said:

@johnnygitarr said:

HIi Fredo,

Palette is visible and i did my changes to show every icon,
but i havn't tried every icon yet.

Dunno what you mean with Quicklauncher!?
If it is the Fredo-Menu of the plugin, then i can say no.
Plugin crashes SKP before Quicklauncher is acitve.

It might be useful if another Mac user would try the plugin,
maybe it is a special thing on my machine.

Greetings
Toby

I'm having the same problem with the plugin on my Mac. Click the icon, then drawing area, then Sketchup disappears/crashes.

fredo6 · 24 Apr 2020, 16:20

@jranly said:

I'm having the same problem with the plugin on my Mac. Click the icon, then Sketchup disappears/crashes.

I am aware of this and trying to find out the cause. I have to count of Mac users because I don't have a Mac myself.

Fredo

pilou · 24 Apr 2020, 17:53

JClements · 24 Apr 2020, 18:34

@y rv1974

Yes, FredoSpline can produce the equivalence to your questions. It just depends upon the type of spline you are editing and how to manipulate the control points. See Pilou's video and others. If you download the PDFs you should find specific answers to your question.

T_MP · 27 Apr 2020, 15:31

@fredo6 said:

@johnnygitarr said:

but i do have problems with the plugin on my mac
macOS 10.15.4 (Catalina) and SKP 20.0.362.

SKP crashes while i try to use the plugin.

I could not test on Mac since I don't have one.
Could you tell me more about the crash.

@johnnygitarr said:

I think i can delete Fredo's Bezierspline now, or?

I suggest you keep it. I maintain it, although there won't be functional evolutions.

Same problem here. The plugin appears to install ok but crashes SKP when I try to select any of the FredoSpline tools.
macOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra) - SKP 19.0.684

fredo6 · 29 Apr 2020, 12:33

NEW RELEASE: FredoSpline v1.2a - 29 Apr 20

Requirement: LibFredo6 10.2

FredoSpline 1.2a is a major release that should now work on Mac platforms

Home Page of FredoSpline for information and Download.

Main post of this FredoSpline thread .