[Plugin] FredoBend - v1.5a - 30 Jun 26

fredo6

NEW RELEASE: FredoBend v1.2g - 01 Apr 26

Requirements

LibFredo6: v15.9a or above
Sketchup version: SU2017 and above

FredoBend 1.2g is a maintenance release including:

Bug fixing for SU versions prior to SU2021.1

Home Page of FredoBend for information and Download.

Main post of this FredoBend thread.

powerglide

@fredo6 Just checked it out, It works now! I am soo happy to have an extension like this for my line of work. Thanks for all of your hard work and dedication!!

fredo6

NEW RELEASE: FredoBend v1.2k - 09 Apr 26

Requirements

LibFredo6: v15.9a or above
Sketchup version: SU2017 and above

FredoBend 1.2k is a maintenance release including:

Bug fixing related to replicas

Home Page of FredoBend for information and Download.

Main post of this FredoBend thread.

fredo6

NEW RELEASE: FredoBend v1.2l - 10 Apr 26

Requirements

LibFredo6: v15.9a or above
Sketchup version: SU2017 and above

FredoBend 1.2l is a maintenance release including:

Major bug fixing related to directions

Home Page of FredoBend for information and Download.

Main post of this FredoBend thread.

fredo6

NEW RELEASE: FredoBend v1.3a - 01 May 26

Requirements

LibFredo6: v15.9a or above
Sketchup version: SU2017 and above

FredoBend 1.3a is a major release including:

Introduction of the Circular Bend tool
Adjustment of the bending algorithms
Bug fixing
Other evolutions

Circular Bend: Overview

Home Page of FredoBend for information and Download.

Main post of this FredoBend thread.

fredo6

NEW RELEASE: FredoBend v1.3b - 04 May 26

Requirements

LibFredo6: v15.9a or above
Sketchup version: SU2017 and above

FredoBend 1.3b is a maintenance release including:

Bug fixing for Circular Bend tool

Home Page of FredoBend for information and Download.

Main post of this FredoBend thread.

Chris1219

Hello!!

I am a user from Greece. Thanks for this amazing plugin.
Nevertheless I noticed that Circular bending deforms a little bit the object which I think is not convenient for the accuracy I don't know, is this a bad handle by me or is a small bug in the code? (I attach a screenshot trying to show what I mean).
Thanks for your attention in advance!!

fredo6

@Chris1219

This is a choice you have to make.

There is a thread on this question in the Sketchup forum.

In your case, you can play with this parameter (Offset Mode)

Chris1219

@fredo6 Hello!!

Thank you very much for the instructions. I choose Vertex-to-Vertex end everything is fine. Now I Know that I have two options to use.
I saw the topic in the forum and I somehow understood the mechanism of bending, and the difficulties that appears.
Thanks again!

TIG

@fredo6
I think it's best for a bent object's geometry to follow a 'curve' and start perpendicular to the start/end segment. But if the path is a full circle the bending should start perpendicular to a mid-segment, to keep the objects 'endmost' dimensions correct: and if it's around an arc [partial circle] that's user-defined it should be treated like any other curve: but if it's a swept form around a notional partial-circular path, that should then start/end perpendicular to a half-segment - that way the bent form stays as dimensionally true as it can be.

fredo6

NEW RELEASE: FredoBend v1.4a - 20 Jun 26

Requirements

LibFredo6: v15.9a or above
Sketchup version: SU2017 and above

FredoBend 1.4a is a maintenance release including:

Bug fixing
Technical adjustments
functional adjustments

Note that applying the Circular Bend tool to a component will impact all other instances. So, if this is not intended, please make sure you make the component instance unique before.

Home Page of FredoBend for information and Download.

Main post of this FredoBend thread.

fredo6

NEW RELEASE: FredoBend v1.5a - 30 Jun 26

Requirements

LibFredo6: v15.9a or above
Sketchup version: SU2017 and above

FredoBend 1.5a is a major release including:

Introduction of the Dome tool
Bug fixing
Technical adjustments
functional adjustments

Note that applying the Circular and Dome Bend tool to a component will impact all other instances. So, if this is not intended, please make sure you make the component instance unique before.

Home Page of FredoBend for information and Download.

Main post of this FredoBend thread.

Rich O Brien

@fredo6 Dome works great. Do you plan to add support to maintain UVs?

fredo6

@Rich-O-Brien said:

@fredo6 Do you plan to add support to maintain UVs?

Maybe, although I am not entirely sure there is a technical solution. What is sure is that it is not trivial and there will be an impact to performance.

fredo6

I really need to investigate deeper what is going on.

The generation is done by deformation, that is, without creating geometry, just moving vertices.

In the meantime, there is ThruPaint to correct the issues.

FredoBend and UVs.mp4

jonorman

Hi. Would editing radius be a possibility as well as angle ??

fredo6

@jonorman said:

Hi. Would editing radius be a possibility as well as angle ??

Yes. But are you sure you know what the radius value would be?

jonorman

@fredo6 Yes, it would be nice to either give angle value, or radius. Maybe following: If you change angel in the angle value, the radius automaticly update, and if you then if you change the radius value the angle value would update.. If that is possible. If this make sense

fredo6

Yes, indeed. Rdaius and angle are related. My question is whether you know in your model what value of radius you would enter?

panixia

@fredo6 said:

whether you know in your model what value of radius you would enter

To be fair, I see quite a lot of real world use cases where it's easier to know which radius is needed, rather than the angle.
Sounds like a reasonable feature request.