@chris fullmer said:

Excellent! glad you got it working. I hope it is able to help,

Chris

So after getting it to work and playing with it, i tried to bend text. and game up with some errors in the finished product. The text bends but creates holes and lines that are not in the original text images. I have attached a file... Any thoughts on my these holes and deformations to the letters happen? Is it something in my settings that i need to change or is this just what happens when you bend more complicated items?

You can see in the e there is a hole, and on other letters that I didn;t picture and the t clearly has lines that are deformed.

I got it to work... I am just a new mac user and didn't know how to install the plugin correctly... i only drug the one file in not the folder containing all the information... thansk for your input and this sweet plugin!!!

@chris fullmer said:

Hi Jeff, there are 2 things to remember when selecting the straight line.

1 the straight line must be drawn on the red axis.
2 the cursor "hotspot" is horrible. You often have to click to the side of the line. But it will highlight plue when you are correctly hovering over it.

The hotspot thing holds true for selecting arc also.

If that does not help, upload a test model here and I'll take a look at it. Hope that helps,

Chris

1. So I tried uninstalling the plug-in and sketchup... reinstalled both and gave it another shot.

2. Made a line on the red axis, a arc on the red axis and a 3d rectangle to arc around the curve.

3. Made the 3d rectangle a group

4. selected the group, and activated the plugin. "please select line on red axis" appears in the bottom left corner

5. I then scroll over the straight line but still won;t let me select it, its doesnlt turn blue and i tried clicking on the line in numerous places. I watched your videos and did the set-up the same but nothing...

Do I need sketchup pro? or does it work with the standard program? any ideas?

Jeff

I just downloaded shape bender to add some text on a curve surface of a bowl and the button shows up in the top left corner of sketchup as well as the plugins tab.

I select my component and then try to sellect my line and curved line to follow but it will not allow me to select the lines like your videos shows.

I am wondering if I installed the plugin incorrectly or I am missing some instructions like holding down a button to allow me to select the lines.

if someone could point me in the right direction that would be great.

Jeff