Another method is to use the follow me tool. Knowing that SU has issues with small facets, I used a 100' x 100' rectangle as the base geometry to create a cube. Didn't find any holes, but close up shows there still needs to be some line hiding if you're after perfection. A 10" x 10" cube after follow me has the annoying little holes in the corners. I upped the arc segments on the smaller cube to 24 vs 12 on the larger cube.

A few of these little boxes and 2 gigs of RAM with a 2 year old video card shows some strain.

Same technique works with other various shapes to end up with a variety of radius cornered shapes, some requiring more cleanup than others.

SanitaryCube.skp

@chris fullmer said:

That sounds like it did not get installed quite right. There should a file called clf_shape_bender.loader.rb in the main plugins folder. Then there should be a folder caled "clf_shape_bender" and inside that folder should exist the files:

clf_shape_bender.png
clf_shape_bender.rb
clf_shape_bender_small.png
curve_pointer.png
default_pointer.png
line_pointer.png

I'm guessing you might have ended up with everything in the main plugins folder. So manually create the clf_shape_bender folder and move all those files above into it, leaving only clf_shape_bender_loader.rb in the main plugins folders.

See if that is by chance the problem and let me know, thanks!

Chris

Thank you Chris............you were spot on
You're certainly taking SU to higher levels

Draw line on red axis, build and group a cube, draw an arc all on the same plane. Select tool.

Can't seem to get by 'please select a single line on red axis' I don't know much about ruby but thought that the following info might be pertinent??

Line 165 refers to code snippet: @line_pointer = UI.create_cursor(line_cursor_path, 15, 2)

My cursor does not change in anyway. Supposed to??

I thought there might be a conflict with other scripts so I removed them all (other than progress bar) to test - no avail.

Using XP SP3, SU7

OpenGL problem? Any suggestions as to what to tweak?

Thanks, Walt

My mistook.........I 'opened' the file rather than bringing it in via the components browser.

Excellent component, thanks for sharing

Nice work.....useful component. Poses a question though

I don't have a lot of experience with dynamic components so this may be less than basic. With a regular component, changes made to one affect all. That characteristic does not seem to apply with dynamic components. If one were to design a roof using this component and after making several copies of it, then want to make a change in the truss pitch, you'd have to edit each truss individually.

Is there a workaround so that modifying one affects all copies?