[Obsolete] FredoScale 1.0e (Free Scaling, Taper Scaling)

[fredo6]

P.S.: You do realize that you acomplished something the sketchup team couldn't in God-knows-how-much-time-and-sketchup-versions and your ruby just turns the skethcup scale tool completly obsolete right?

Again: many thanks for this script

David

Thanks for the compliment.
Keep in mind however that the Sketchup Scale tool does 'Smart' scaling of Dynamic components, which FreeScale does not do (i did not find any API for that).
And for Taper Scale, this is actually just a small subset of what the powerful SketchyFFD can do.

But I agree that since I have been a user of Sketchup, I have always wondered why you could not orient the Scaling box!

Fred

[fredo6]

Fredo,

Big thanks for such amazing tool! I have watched the video and was almost sure you will release it as a commercial plugin. Do you have a Paypal account?
I believe many would like to express their gratitude.

Thank you
Tomasz

Tomasz,

I am grateful to your attention, as a mark of appreciation for the plugins.
I do have a paypal account at my email address fredosix a_t hotmail _d_o_t_ com

I had no commercial intention however, especially for a plugin that actually could be part of SU in standard.

Fredo

[numerobis]

WOW!!!! this is really GREAT!!! Thank you so much!!!

[l.frisken]

The only problem I can find is that it is much slower (causes my computer to lag) when scaling big geometry

[JClements]

Fredo:

Thank you!

How many times have I been frustrated with scaling. Your script should now reduce a lot of that frustration.

You foresight/anticipation of what many of us experience and wish could be remedied is remarkable.

Regards, John

[johnsenior1973]

I had no commercial intention however, especially for a plugin that actually should be part of SU in standard.

Typo fixed.

[fredo6]

The only problem I can find is that it is much slower (causes my computer to lag) when scaling big geometry

Yes, the algorithm to compute the best fitting box, even in 2D, depends on the number of entities in the selection. However, once done at startup of the tool, it should be faster to change the orientation and to perform the scaling, even interactively. So, unless you need to have a specific orientation, you should use the native Scale tool for big selections.

Taper Scale can also be slow to perform deformation for big selections. I think that in practice however, you would rarely taper a complex model, because the transformation is usually not ideal in the "real world".

fredo

[fredo6]

Fred,

I think I have found an answer to why this is not working: viewtopic.php?p=61288#p61288 from this topic.
I don't know if recompiling those .rb files (if I say that correctly) is going to make them work, but in any case it would be nice if you could release separate Linux versions of your scripts. More and more people are switching to Linux these days. I for one am not going back to Windows. But I would still like to have this script working.

Coen,

I was not aware of this problem of character encoding on Linux.
The best would be that Linux users get this dostounix utility and perfrom the transformation on their machine, so that everything is under control.

Did you try, and does it solve the problem ?

Fredo

[Ben Ritter]

Fredo,

I just want to let you know how much I appreciate your efforts, and, your incredible generosity in making this script available.

Ben

[craigbic]

Fredo,

Absolutely awesome! Thank you so much for giving us some much need functionality in Sketchup. Brilliant!

[snowflake]

Fredo6
This is an amazing tool. Indispensable.
The work you have put into it is really appreciated.
Thank you.

I played around with it today and have a small comment.
There is an interesting behaviour modification of the component/group elements when the scale is applied ON them, but not WITHIN them.
The angle between the axis changes to non perpendicular. (see screenshots).

2009-01-27_151853_freescale1.jpg

2009-01-27_152606_freescale2.jpg

On both occasions the scale tool was used parallel to the wall of the box.
Was not aware this is possible.

Once again thank you for the toy.

[fredo6]

Interesting.
Actually, the Ruby API is very poor to tell what are the local axes of a component from within a component, so that I have to trust the chaining of transformations for obtaining teh right results in case of nested groups and components.

I hope that the cases where the local axes are no longer orthogonal does not mess up anything in the model.

Fredo

[tomot]

Fredo6: thanks for this great scale plugin adaptation

[fredo6]

to ALL users,

I made a small update (dated 28 Jan 09, 23:30 CET) to include some fixes of problems that were reported so far and also to include the Spanish translation (kindly provided by Pichuneke).

You need to re-install both LibFredo6 and FreeScale

• LibFredo6 3.0a --> http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=16020#p124684
• FreeScale 1.0a --> http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=16021#p124685

Fredo

[JClements]

Fredo:

Is there anyway for you to add a "Check for Update" function in LibFredo6 ?


It could check for an internal date or variable in the User's version of LibFredo6 and compare it to one on a server OR simply have it display a message which shows the most recent rev level with a link to a download page.

I can see where LibFredo6 might be the "heart" of many important scripts and we'll (your loyal users) want to make sure its always kepT current.

John

[Daniel S]

Hi Fredo, I update to this new version.
The first thing I try is a problem that I have in the previous version, but the problem is still there.
I have some issues trying to scale about center (after press CTRL key).
I attach a video showing what happens. Is like the center of the group is updated when you try to scale.

Daniel S

[fredo6]

Daniel,

That's a bug, and actually quite subtle to fix. Thanks for signaling.
Since you seem to know how to reproduce it, would you mind to try with the attached updated file.

Again, many thanks

Fredo

[Daniel S]

Yes, now works very well! thank you!. For me was easy to reproduce because it happened every time I tried to scale about center.

Another problem that I have is when trying to scale Red, Green, Blue (all togheter) with a negative number.
I attach a video showing this.

In the video you will see that if I try to scale only red axis negative, only green negative or only blue negative all works well... but if I take a red blue and green grip to a negative number it turns crazy. The same happens if I press the ctrl key. It works well if I scale one axis only.

Daniel S

[Jim57]

Fred06— I can't thank you enough for this script. I've been begging for something like this, and it's so easy to use. I love the way it reads out in percentage and dimension, right on the screen where it's most visible. It's how the SU scale tool should have been done in the first place.

Jim

[jmmad]

Thxs a lot Fred for this plugin, your ruby scripts are amazing.
Do you think you could add more transformations to it, like bend, twist, Bulge
Maibe for a comercial plugin?

Transforms.jpg

[fredo6]

Do you think you could add more transformations to it, like bend, twist, Bulge
Maibe for a comercial plugin?

Transforms.jpg

I can add shear and twist without too much problem. But the royal way to all these deformations is definitely Sketchy FFD.

[kwistenbiebel]

Do you think you could add more transformations to it, like bend, twist, Bulge
Maibe for a comercial plugin?

Transforms.jpg

I can add shear and twist without too much problem. But the royal way to all these deformations is definitely Sketchy FFD.

Please add it Fredo.
I find your plugin to run more smoothly and controllable than FFD.
Shear and twist would be wonderful as a tool.

By the way, since I installed your plugin,I never use the default SU scaling tool anymore.
The plugin is fantastic and works very intuitive.
Thank you again.

[solo]

+1 for sheer and twist.

[jmmad]

I can add shear and twist without too much problem. But the royal way to all these deformations is definitely Sketchy FFD.

I Know FFD is very powerful for deformation tool, but its not as fast and easy to use as your Taper Deformation Script.
with FFD it is very hard to do an accurate bend or twist, also you canot deform Nested Components or Grups, and you canot align the deformation as easy as you can do it with Taper deformation in your ruby.

[Daniel S]

Fredo already post a shear transformation plugin that works very well.
Click here: PlaneShear
It`s not very popular because it´s inside a question topic.

Daniel S

[fredo6]

Another problem that I have is when trying to scale Red, Green, Blue (all togheter) with a negative number.
I attach a video showing this.

In the video you will see that if I try to scale only red axis negative, only green negative or only blue negative all works well... but if I take a red blue and green grip to a negative number it turns crazy. The same happens if I press the ctrl key. It works well if I scale one axis only.

Daniel S

Daniel,

Another interesting bug (due to Sketchup precision reaching limits). I hope I hav fixed them (you had one for Taper with negative scales too)
Would you mind to try with this updated version.

Thanks very much

Fred

[jmmad]

Fredo already post a shear transformation plugin that works very well.
Click here: PlaneShear
It`s not very popular because it´s inside a question topic.

Daniel S

How could i missed a Fredo Script ?
OMG Shear works great Im impresed 2 times by you Fredo in a day, and nice icons you made last year for it Daniel.

Fredo the only thing i miss in shear deformation is that it groups the shear object at the end, in your Taper deformation that does not happen so you can deform part of an object without breaking it in 2.
It would be amazing to bend, twist, shear, bugle just part of an object.
That way Organic Modeling would be like playing with clay in SU,
Thxs to so talented scripters like you

[Daniel S]

Fredo,

This new version fixes all the problems in the scale tool in all the axis.
I didn´t try before the Taper with negative scales. Seems that now there is a problem only if you try to Taper with negative scales about center (pressing the Ctrl key). All the rest works very well.
I attach a video of this too.

Thank you,
Daniel S

[majid]

just to sow my respect to u
majid

[Yanman]

Hi

Fredo6

Thank you! THANK YOU!!!very very VERY much Fredo6