EasyOffset / my new plugin #3
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Hello everyone, just to let you know,
I have just released my third plugin, ‘EasyOffset’.
It is another very simple offset tool that joins the ranks of existing offset tools that I also use all the time.
EasyOffset creates offsets for one or more selected faces: outward by entering a positive numerical value or inward by entering a negative numerical value – nothing more, nothing less, robust and fast, no smart features or multiple offsets at the same time. Not necessarily the reinventing the the wheel
, but again free and still good enough to share here and for me the first time I had ever created an icon bar.
Like my other plugins, it was developed over the last few months based on my everyday tasks.
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@HornOxx said in EasyOffset / my new plugin #3:
it was developed over the last few months based on my everyday tasks.
The perfect reason to develop a tool.
I'm gonna try a break it
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@Rich-O-Brien said in EasyOffset / my new plugin #3:
I'm gonna try a break it
Did you check your inbox? There's more stuff to break.
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@panixia said in EasyOffset / my new plugin #3:
Did you check your inbox? There's more stuff to break.
I did indeed. I will break that too. Just like I break spaghetti before I cook it.
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@Rich-O-Brien said in EasyOffset / my new plugin #3:
I break spaghetti before I cook it
[TriggeredItalianModeON/]That should be illegal[TriggeredItalianModeOFF/]
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Very nice. Any way to change units?
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Try various offsets on the attached skp that contains a non-convex polygon. A couple of examples:
- edit the leading sign on the offset to get -20cm. A weird shape will be created.
- try just entering -1 (the model is in fractional inches). A self-intersecting set of edges will be created.
A general offset algorithm needs traps for special cases such as these, which add to the complexity. In the past, the built-in Offset Tool would also glitch on shapes such as this. I don't remember exactly which version fixed it (maybe SU 2019 or 2020?).
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