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[Plugin] follow me rotate

[Plugin] follow me rotate

Postby wikii » Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:07 am

It is still in developing, here is the current version.

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Re: [REQ] follow me rotate

Postby Daniel S » Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:44 am

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I get a error on the ruby console
I attach a image.

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Re: [REQ] follow me rotate

Postby wikii » Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:45 am

Try a curved path.
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Re: [REQ] follow me rotate

Postby wikii » Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:47 am

Daniel S wrote:Wikii
I get a error on the ruby console
I attach a image.

Daniel S


Select welded edges as path and a face before using this script.
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Re: [REQ] follow me rotate

Postby wikii » Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:55 am

A curve path
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Re: [REQ] follow me rotate

Postby Daniel S » Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:02 am

Wikii
I attach a video showing what i´m doing...
still I get a error in the ruby console.

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Re: [REQ] follow me rotate

Postby wikii » Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:12 am

Sorry , I modified two classes.
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Re: [REQ] follow me rotate

Postby solo » Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:21 am

I cannot seem to get it to work, I see it in the plugin drop down menu, but when I select it it does nada, does it work like follow me tool? if yes then I cannot seem to figure it out.
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Re: [REQ] follow me rotate

Postby wikii » Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:28 am

Select welded edges as path and a face before using this script.
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Re: [REQ] follow me rotate

Postby Daniel S » Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:29 am

Now works..
thank you Wikii!!
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Solo...
install the latest version, and under Plugins you will see "FollowAndRotate". Select first a curve and a face.

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Re: [REQ] follow me rotate

Postby solo » Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:30 am

I have tried that without anything happening.
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Re: [REQ] follow me rotate

Postby wikii » Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:32 am

Daniel S wrote:Now works..
thank you Wikii!!
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Solo...
install the latest version, and under Plugins you will see "FollowAndRotate". Select first a curve and a face.

Daniel S



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Re: [REQ] follow me rotate

Postby Daniel S » Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:42 am

Solo...
try with the ruby console open like in the video i attach here:
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=12965&start=15#p94900
And if it gives error send the error to wikii.
For me is working now.

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Re: [REQ] follow me rotate

Postby solo » Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:51 am

hey, It works!



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Re: [REQ] follow me rotate

Postby EarthMover » Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:08 am

It's working for me also. Thanks sooo much wikii!! :sketchstatic:
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Re: [REQ] follow me rotate

Postby silver_shadow » Mon Sep 29, 2008 5:58 am

Wheeee, thanx a million !!! :enlight:
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Re: [REQ] follow me rotate

Postby bigstick » Mon Sep 29, 2008 8:04 am

This is fantastic! Thanks a lot wikii!
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Re: [Plugin] follow me rotate

Postby plot-paris » Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:06 am

phantastic plugin Wikii! thanks for sharing :ecstatic:

however, when I use a welded curve, I get very unexpected results. something doesn't seem to be working with welded paths. everything works fine if I use a bezier curve (no matter how complicated)



and I have a suggestion for a future update:
if you have a face with it's midpoint not at the starting point of the curve, the cuve will be moved to this centre point.
would it be possible to prevent this from happening, so that you can use a shape with an offset, that is twisted arround the path with a certain distance.
or even better, could you change the script to allow the use of several seperate faces?

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Re: [Plugin] follow me rotate

Postby watkins » Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:31 am

Any chance of making this available as a .zip file? I have problems with files with .rar extensions.
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Re: [Plugin] follow me rotate

Postby Pilou » Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:33 am

Funny :thumb: :enlight: :fro:

Any chance of making this available as a .zip file? I have problems with files with .rar extensions.

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Re: [Plugin] follow me rotate

Postby wikii » Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:38 pm

plot-paris wrote:and I have a suggestion for a future update:
if you have a face with it's midpoint not at the starting point of the curve, the cuve will be moved to this centre point.
would it be possible to prevent this from happening, so that you can use a shape with an offset, that is twisted arround the path with a certain distance.


Try to select one curve , one face and one construction point , then , using FAR. The construction point will be treated as the center of the face.
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Re: [Plugin] follow me rotate

Postby plot-paris » Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:11 pm

weird. it only works for me, if I have a curve as a path. it doesn't work with a straight line like in your example (not even the dialog box for rotation/scale input appears)...

but arround a curve it looks really cool! :D
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Re: [Plugin] follow me rotate

Postby marcosrodrigues » Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:46 pm

Seems very promising, Wikii. Thank you.
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Re: [Plugin] follow me rotate

Postby Pilou » Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:53 pm

it doesn't work with a straight line like in your example

Your are not alone :)
And yet some erratic Works for 2 straight lines welded, sometimes yes, sometime no
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Re: [Plugin] follow me rotate

Postby Dave R » Mon Sep 29, 2008 3:54 pm

Interesting plugin but this is what I get.







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Re: [Plugin] follow me rotate

Postby wikii » Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:21 pm

Dave R wrote:Interesting plugin but this is what I get.


select a face without it's border
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Re: [Plugin] follow me rotate

Postby Dave R » Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:29 pm

thank you. that works.
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Re: [Plugin] follow me rotate

Postby watkins » Mon Sep 29, 2008 5:18 pm

Dear Pilou,

Thanks for posting the .zip file.

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Re: [Plugin] follow me rotate

Postby Free Agent » Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:44 pm

hey wow awsome plugin, thanx for posting, is there any way to reverse the triangulation of the faces, i noticed that once smoothed the and as you rotate the form it gets very jaggy at the edges and you have to go in there with the flip edge tool to smooth it out... any way around this within the coding?
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Re: [Plugin] follow me rotate

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