[Plugin] Blend ver 1.12.

[mitcorb]

yeah, I had a gap between the originating curve and the next intervening step toward the destination curve. Easily knitted together with line tool, and so forth, but just mentioning.

[utiler]

This is a nice plugin, mate! I'm going to play!!!!

[tomot]

Nice plugin! but still needs some tweaking.
I find it first works with a new fresh startup screen. but then the more experimenting I do with Blend the more inconsistant the results become, finally the Bend of the left Y's in the picture did not take place at all.

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Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method `vertices' for nil:NilClass>
C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/sublend.rb:45:in `blend'
C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/sublend.rb:174
C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/sublend.rb:153:in `call'


please don't give up!

[kirill2008]

Color blending demo video (for Daniel S ):


cosycat, please try ver. 1.5. I tried to solve the problem of missing mesh pieces.

tomot, I'll try to find out, what's the problem with rotated Y's...

And speaking about the 3'd curve (the path): looks like, it demands a kind of major refactoring It is more complex task than I thought and it will take a little time...

[tomot]

I don't want you to misunderstand. This is not only related to the "y" shape. Other shapes have produced the same inconsistent results in SU 7.
another example:
make 2 identical closed shapes, scale one larger, apply bend, same code error occurs

cheers.

[kirill2008]

I don't want you to misunderstand. This is not only related to the "y" shape. Other shapes have produced the same inconsistent results in SU 7.
another example:
make 2 identical closed shapes, scale one larger, apply bend, same code error occurs

Looks like it is SU7 issue... SU6 processes correctly:

When processing faces it is necessary to select them by single click (not a fence).

[majid]

woooow...it would be a dreamy plugin if no bugs!!..I gave it a try , but it seems that previous versions were better on freehand lines, while the last version doesn't works fine... also on closed line doesn;t works at all (su 6)..seeing forward to see the improvements mate btw thanks thanx thanx!

[Dave R]

This is a useful plugin. Well, for me it was until I installed the latest version (1.5). Now I get what you see in the attached screen shot. Unfortunately I installed over the previous version. Keep working at it. I'm sure you'll get it all working.

Thank you.

Blend.jpg

[Daniel S]

Thank you for adding color blending

I have problems with this new version too (I use SU7).

Sometimes work with results like the ones Dave R post above.
In other cases the plugin dosen´t do anything and prints this in the ruby console:

Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method `back_material' for #<Sketchup::Edge:0x67b7f70>>
C:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/sublend.rb:68:in `blend'
C:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/sublend.rb:270
C:/Archivos de programa/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/sublend.rb:248:in `call'

Daniel S

[watkins]

Dear Kirill,

It might be a good idea to post versions 1.0 to 1.5 as the later versions seem to be problematic. Version 1.0 seemed to work quite nicely. I too have over-written previous versions and so cannot go back a step or two.

Kind regards,
Bob

[watkins]

Dear Kirill,

Version 5 doesn't seem to work in SU Pro 7, even for simple shapes, but don't give up.

[blajnov]

Dear Kirill,

It might be a good idea to post versions 1.0 to 1.5 as the later versions seem to be problematic. Version 1.0 seemed to work quite nicely. I too have over-written previous versions and so cannot go back a step or two.

Kind regards,
Bob

There are three previous versions:
v 1.2
v 1.3
v 1.4
Rename files in sublend.rb

[watkins]

Thanks for posting versions 1.2 and 1.4. I will test them out with areas. Previously, I only tested this plugin with arcs, and that still works in V1.5.

[kirill2008]

Guys, I don't know yet how to prevent skin (mesh) turning inside out The point is that script processes vertices with corresponding indices: so maybe flipping normal or 180 degrees rotation (or 90) of one of 2 faces may help.
Missing triangles (they vanished after color blending feature addition) have come back now (ver. 1.6)
Error messages kind of "undefined method `back_material' for... " debugged (I guess ).

[watkins]

Dear Kirill,

Here is a quick question. You mention Sketchup 6 in both the first post and in the introduction to your plugin. Does this plugin work well in version 6? Many people have migrated to version 7, although with little added benefit.

Keep going, you are doing a great job.

Kind regards,
Bob

[cosycat]

Thanks for all of the updates, this is really getting there. I have noticed that the result (v6) does depend on the order in which the points are drawn (for closed shapes at least) - this might explain some of the inside out results people are getting.
Quick example, the numbers show the order in which the upper shape points were added

bendtwist.jpg

[kirill2008]

Ver 1.6 demo videos:
Filtration capabilities video:


Blending between different types of entities demo:


Fixing inside out problem variant:

As cosycat mentioned:

the result (v6) does depend on the order in which the points are drawn

[olishea]

WOW. This is an awesome plugin. I tried using skin.rb for meshing between edges but it never worked for mac (i think). so im glad you can do it with this plugin!!

Amazing work, one of the best plugins around. the modeling possibilities are endless, I'm loving it!

[utiler]

Kirill2008,
Have you thought about adding a path function to this script?
[see attached]

Blend-Path.png

Your generosity is much appreciated, I only wish I knew ruby too so I could reply the favor....

[kirill2008]

Have you thought about adding a path function to this script?

Yes, I think about it almost every day (and some times night too). I want to add a path processing very much, but it looks like such task is less obvious than already implemented algorithm. And maybe it's better to make a brand-new plugin with path processing, because it will work the other way than existing plugin.
Ver. 1.7. demo video, shows blending between face and construction point and context menu "Blend" command usage.


I don't know yet how to implement custumization of context menu items, so "Blend" command appears always when more than 1 object is selected

[kirill2008]

Olishea, glad to hear sublend works on mac (I was just going to ask someone to try it on mac). Thank's for testing and feedback and happy blendings
Ofcourse it's not my achievement , it's just because ruby is cross platform.

[Ken]

Not sure how you are fixing the inside out problem. I can't tell exactly what you are doing. Could you please try again?

Thanks in advance

Ken

[Ben Ritter]

Kirill,

Thank you so much for the script, very useful.

Is there a bug with the blending of colors, I can't seem to get that to work?

[kirill2008]

Not sure how you are fixing the inside out problem. I can't tell exactly what you are doing. Could you please try again?
Ken

I'm flipping the face normal (lower one).

Is there a bug with the blending of colors, I can't seem to get that to work?

Maybe. Note that color blending enabled only for 2 faces yet (does not work for curves, edges and construction points) and both face front material and face back material has to differ from default one. Hope that helps.

[kirill2008]

Now the implementation of interaction is in progress (it is not yet stable so ver 1.8 will appear a little bit later). I think that interaction ability will solve (more or less) the inside out problem. I mean it will be easier to fix it by moving, rotating and/or flipping one of the initial faces and the result mesh or set of intermediate faces/curves will refresh automatically. This will be the step towards path processing also.

[Gaieus]

Come on, Kirill, this is too much for me today.

[EarthMover]

Mr Krillshot....fantastic work and dedication to continually improving your script. Can't wait to see v. 1.8! Thanks so much!

[Ken]

Mr Krillshot

Great pluging, however, I am having trouble duplicating all the video you are showing. Would it be possible to also attach the Sketchup file so I can try out the same file as you are using. This way I would know if the problems I am having are with my computer or the plugin.

Again thanks for the pluging

Ken

[utiler]

This is nuts; really. I can't beleive how fast you are developing this plugin, Mr Kirill!!!

[kirill2008]

Would it be possible to also attach the Sketchup file so I can try out the same file as you are using.

interactive_tests.skp

File with the model, that appears in the demo video of ver. 1.8.
Unfortunately interactivity enabled only in run-time (untill skp file is not closed) and I don't know yet how to save interaction data to skp file (maybe it's not possible at all). So if you want to play with initial faces, then it is necessary to make new blended object.

Ver. 1.8. does not support interaction with curves yet, because it is difficult to get the curve object from the Sketchup.active_model... The point is that active_model contains no curves (curve is just a 'conceptual entity' "all circles, arcs, and arbitrary curves are really just edges that are bound together in sequence"). So it's necessary to perform some tricky things to obtain the certain curve, that you need.
Edges also behave strange: moving of the edge or moving of the edge vertex does not envoke onChangeEntity event handler . Only if you change some properties of the edge (for example layer or smoothness), then modify event rises and onChangeEntity envokes.



So ver. 1.8. supports interaction only between 2 faces and face+construction point. I'm not sure if I can solve myself edge and curve problems.