@fredo6 said:

Anyway, as I told you, the best plugin for this kind of potatoid shape is certainly TGI3D. It uses another algorithm which is more adapted when the contour is continuously smooth.

Thanks for the tip, but I tried TGI3D. The Training Edition won't mesh my curves and there is no money for software in the budget for this project.

Anyway, thanks for your great plugins and your support. I hope you will continue to develop them. An updated version of your Bezier tools would be nice. They are very powerful but can be a bit finnicky, handling-wise.

@daloop said:

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If I remember correctly, I did this with the loft-by-spline and not the skinning tool.

Hi Dave,

Curviloft doesn't need your defense. The tool is a great piece of code and it does what is described in the docs.
Still, if I feed it a curve it can't compute it sometimes goes into a state where I only see the temporary window, even if I use it on other geometry that should loft just fine. And this state is even retained between restarts of SU.
I thought this could maybe qualify as a useability issue, if not as a bug, even if the behaviour was produced by user error.

@dave r said:

@daloop said:

Any idea how to control the concavity? I can't change the Bezier curves, as they have real-world constraints.

Add some additional curves to define the concavity you desire.

Thanks for the suggestion. I do know, that I could even draw each and every face manually in 3D space to get the surface I want.
I was just hoping that Curviloft could maybe spare me from that tedium and as it already produced a nice surface with this Bezier curve in the past, I wondered why it stopped doing so.
I'm still learning the ins and outs of modeling in SU, so if a plugin gives me a nice result and saves me a few modeling steps, it is very welcome.

Hi Fredo,

@fredo6 said:

Curviloft does not know how to skin continuous loops. You should use TGI3d for that (or maybe Soap Skin & Bubble).

With Curviloft Skinning, you need to cut the contour into 4 pieces. This can be achieved by creating small breaker segments as shown in the picture.

Thanks again.
To see if I got it right: If the tool stops working and I only get the temporary window, I have to break up the curve.
May I humbly suggest a future version of Curviloft that behaves a bit more gracefully?

Attached is a lofted version I did last week. It is much more along the lines I need, as it is less concave than yours. It could be, though, that I broke the curve by lofting another, adjacent surface. But not into more than 2 pieces.
Loft13.zip
Any idea how to control the concavity? I can't change the Bezier curves, as they have real-world constraints.
I did try Soap Skin & Bubble but I like the Curviloft surface better.

@fredo6 said:

Then, could you post the model you are working on.

OK, here we go:
Bezier12.zip

@fredo6 said:

Could you post an exmaple of the error traces (there is the button in the temporary window to export the trace file).

Thanks for your support.

Sorry, but I can't find any buttons on the window:

Hi everybody,

I have the same problem as Missy_X a few posts above.
Whenever I activate one of the Curviloft functions in SU2013 (Windows 7, 64Bit), the "Curviloft: Temporary" window pops up immediately. I don't get the usual Fredo-Bar on top of the editor and the plug-in does not work. I can select edges behind the popup, but there's no preview and no lofting.

The Ruby console shows nothing at all. I do have all the latest versions (including libFredo 6.5.2) installed.

This is going on for a few days now. The plugins used to work fine. My current workflow relies on setting up 3D-Bezier curves and skinning them with Curviloft.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.