Posts made by cmeed

Stupid suggestion Here..... BUT -
could a projector work?
we used to blow up small images using a projector onto walls. then trace, paint etc. Its not the most accurate of methods but it is quick, your probably looking for precision. see, told you it was stupid.
Although, I like the image of you striding over the building site with school projector tucked under your arm!

Thanks fredo6 for the latest update. letting you know that the Tent1.skp happily skinned on my mac
cheers

Here you go...Thanks for looking...
I am almost sure it will work for you. Its so simple a shape.

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tent1.skp

Thank you Tig. damn ! i knew that.... mmmm

Thank you for your speedy reply. Tig your plugin is working great (i didn't know about going back to my first curve to make three curves work, cheers)
what i'm making is a field of 800 tents - the ones you can put up in 3 seconds. So i need a way of using the contours and keeping the the polys down.
see pic tent - I used the loft by spline to get this but its not that great, Skinning didn't work.
i wanted to used fredos to get the polys down.

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help.
I see skinning videos posted within this thread but i can't get this shape to work. it seems so simple.....
I click contours, click space, i then repeat until all three lines are coloured and click the tick button or open space. i get a PLEASE WAIT then nothing happens.
Am I doing something wrong, is it Because i'm on a mac?

the last picture is tig's rails but i have to make a 4th rail for it to work.

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@unknownuser said:

Cmeed

What do you mean to colour by profile ?
I see you using Mac, so no problem with the plugin apparently?

Not really the person to ask about crashes as I've only used it once but happily with great success. No crashes.

heres what i was asking about in the pic - just profiles?

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I think you need to draw first the rails that give the shape of the junction, making sure that each surface would be closed by 4 or 3 curves. Then you can apply the Skinning function.

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Thanks but i couldn't get the rails working with this. I don't understand it completely yet. i need to wait till the documentation comes out as i seem to find myself with alot of colourful lines with 7,8,9 written on them.

But on the up side i worked the path method see pics YES!

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this is amazing, thank you very much!

when i saw the preview i wondered if this would be able to handle this dilemma.

A seat i recently designed needed an end that curved round and formed the back rest. I've just played for 20mins on the beta and i'm struggling. can curviloft help?

cheers
chris

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plugin help.skp

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Is it possible to colour By profile? Would also look cool to just have the outside of something highlighted.

Great plugin by the way.

I have sorted my problems now thanks for all the help. still didn't get VW to import even though the software is there to import it, somewhere.
In the end saving as a dwg 2000 solved the issue as the person opening it was using an old version and importing the wrong scale.

its not no but at least i'm getting somewhere. the VW version I'm using is 12.5 it says that it has already has the plugin/importer already installed but after following the instructions on where to find it and use it i'm no nearer, its not where it says it is. I know nothing about VW.

The dwg files i open (ive solved the license issue now) are way out of scale it come in in feet.....

tomorrow is another day.......

Thanks although on a mac I've here im trying a different way now. cheers for the help. does a sketchup VW exporter exist then? no then

yes indeed. I'm on a pro machine, the license says expired, for some reason. so no exporting of dwg files at the moment until i get the licence checked. I also have a boss looking over my shoulder...... i thought that there might be a chance of help through a sketchup vw exporter.

I have to get my sketchup files exported to vectorworks. What is the best way???? is there a exporter for sketchup?
I know that there is an importer for vectorworks but i know zero about vector works and a boss needs it in vectorworks as he's not seen the light of sketchup yet.....
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nearly!!! the last one nearly got there, its the final alignment of the two shapes thats not right. maybe more tinkering.

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@unknownuser said:

Have you tried 2 faces + Path?

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=21658

this looks good thank you...... i'll have a go when i'm at work.

skp......

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plugin help.skp

I have been pulling my hair out! it seems so simple but i cant get it right? is there a plugin that will do the following (see pic)

its basically the same shape, but ones a different length, and they twist.

it is the end of an arm rest and i spent far too long attempting to get a plugin to work. in the end i used TIGs extrude by rails although making a rail for it to travel on was difficult, it got squashed on the was round and i had to change some straight lines to curves to get this attempt. (on right) and its really twisted around the back.....

Please help.....

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very good idea about the camera 'zoom'. I'll test your code for the mac users when i have the chance.... Work!!!