[Plugin] SketchyBevel 0.1(Updated May 11)

[CPhillips]

This plugin is not nearly finished yet. But it will be a little while before I am able to come back to it. So here is an early release, warts and all.

Install
-Put SketchyBevel.rb in your plugins directory.
-Select the faces you want to bevel.
-Right click and select Bevel.
-A dialog will appear.
-Amount is how far to inset the faces in decimal inches.
-Cap holes will attempt to fill in the corners of the bevel with faces. Capping holes is still buggy so you may want to do it yourself.
-Click "Ok" and it should bevel the geometry.

Known bugs
-Works by "shrinking faces" similar to the Outliner tool. If the face shrinks too much it will flip causing the geometry to be incorrect.
-I haven't figured out how to cap the holes in the end of a bevel yet. It works ok for simple shapes but more complex ones are tricky. So there is an option to cap holes or not. If you cap holes you may wind up with some extra faces that are not needed. If not you will have to cap them yourself (not too hard).
-Sometimes faces are backwards and grow rather than shrink. Delete the face and rebuild it by drawing a clockwise line.
-It doesn't yet handle the case where some of the faces in a mesh are beveled and others not.

Chris

May 11 update.
-Fixed hang bug if input box canceled.
-Beveling now works inside of groups and components.
-Bevel amount should now be in the set unit format (meters, cm, feet, etc)
-Somewhat better capping of holes. Still far from perfect. Sometimes it still leaves holes so there is a "Cap Holes" right click option.

[CadFather]

Chris, your genius and generosity are very appreciated - Thank you!

[TomDC]

Thank you.

[Jean-Franco]

Thanks so much Chris. Your'e really GREAT !

[remus]

Cheers chris, for its current foibles this is still a wicked script.

[a4chitect]

thanks chris, nice little script - great idea with the face shrinking

[ilay7k]

Thank you for this!
Let's assemble own 7 version!

[Daniel S]

Thank you Chris!!!

Daniel S

[Ben Ritter]

Chris, your generosity and talent are appreciated.

Thank you for sharing this.

Ben

[OTB Designworks]

Thanks for this Chris! It is guys like you who keep me from getting too upset about the lack of official SU updates.

[Pilou]

Using seems some easy

[craftycurate]

AT LAST! Can finally bevel objects which cannot be bevelled using FollowMe.

Cheers
Richard

[modelhead]

Thanks very much!!....works like a charm!!

[Marian]

THANK YOU!!!!THANK YOU!!!!THANK YOU!!!!THANK YOU!!!!THANK YOU!!!!THANK YOU!!!!

[Jon]

THAAANK YOU!!!

[3eighty]

Whats left to say.........

[Mike Lucey]

....except THANK YOU again

[ely862me]

i was waiting for something like this

thx

[chippwalters]

Very much appreciated!

[CPhillips]

You're welcome.

Now back to GTA....

[lapx]

Chris you da man!
Thank you kindly!

[sepo]

Nifty and very useful script. Thank you for your kindness.

[philem]

From Adelalide, South Australia...

ONYA MATE !!!

[erikB]

Chris, thank you for this very usefull script !!! Works as far as I can tell (only tried some simple forms) like a charme. Only, one question would it be difficult to implement a choice between inches and cm for the bevel width ?
erikB

[remus]

I've found a bug: i tried just beveling a face (should have read the instructions...) and it gives me a dialog saying 'wrong arguement type false (expected array)', the problem is it is impossible to get this dialog to go away, you have to shut SU down form the task manager before you can use SU again.

[CPhillips]

I've found a bug: i tried just beveling a face (should have read the instructions...) and it gives me a dialog saying 'wrong arguement type false (expected array)', the problem is it is impossible to get this dialog to go away, you have to shut SU down form the task manager before you can use SU again.

Thats too bad. Do you have any idea how to reproduce it? When I try it with a single face it doesn't do that.

[remus]

heres a quick mock up of the thing that made it crash. I was trying to bevel the top surface, but without hidden geometry turned on.

[Jorgensen]

Hi Chris

Thanks for this very usefull tool. I one question though, would it be possible to use it in Decimal/millimeters ? It seems to use inches, even if my drawing is set to use millimeters

Thanks
Jorgensen

[kwistenbiebel]

I just returned from a few days off at sea. Coming home is a delight , finding this new plugin.

Thank you very much Chris. I'll be trying the script when working on a model for work tomorrow.
Kudos for these nice contributions to the SU community. Appreciated!

Regards,
Kwistenbiebel

[spc]

Thanks Chris for share your talent,