EDITING AND SIMPLIFYING CURVES in SketchUp with Curvizard
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- This week, we’re going to check out an extension that’s designed to help us edit and simplify curves and contours in SketchUp.
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This extension is a tool from Fredo6 designed to help you work with curves in different capacities. It contains several tools that help you combine, separate, simplify, and do other things to curves.
First, let’s note that you can actually turn these icons on in the toolbar by opening the first menu option, then clicking on the settings icon, then checking the boxes for “Icons Visible in Toolbar”
Now, let’s go through some of the functions
Make Curves (Weld) - This function operates very similarly to the Weld extension from TIG that we’ve talked about in the past. It basically can take a series of edges (or curves) and make then into a single, uninterrupted edge. This can be useful in multiple different things. It’s particularly useful if you are going to extrude anything having to do with that edge, as you’ll be able to do it with a smooth face. One of the benefits of this particular version is
Explode Curve - This explodes curves into individual edges. It’s very similar to the built-in SketchUp explode curves tool with one difference - it will work on curves inside groups and components.
Cleanup Contours - This tool will look at different contour lines and try to clean them up. Based on the documentation, it does this in two ways. First, it takes a look at lines made up of points that are “Colinear” and will combine these lines into a single group (meaning less segments). Second, it tries to remove small spikes in your edges. This also allows it to reduce the number of edges that SketchUp has to display.
Simplify Contours - This tool basically takes a look at your contours and will basically simplify any segment with an angle under a value that you set. This can be great for removing spikes and extra edges, as well as smoothing complex meshes. Especially helpful if you’re dealing with things like imported topography.
Smooth Contour - While simplify contour focused on removing any spikes or edges at or below a certain angle, smooth contour focuses on smoothing all the edges of your contour into an average smoothed spline. There are two different settings for how this tool works - B-Spline, which creates edges “inside” your original contour, and F-Spline, which creates the edges “outside” your original contour. You can adjust the average angle of the curve as well, which allows you to reduce the number of segments in your curve.
Edge properties allows you to bulk adjust the properties of different edges. This can be useful because it allows you to bulk hide an bulk show geometry.
Finally - convert to guide will allow you to take a curved line and create a guide with a construction point at each vertex.
All in all, this is a great suite of tools for managing and adjusting curves in your SketchUp models.
Disclaimers: all opinions are my own, sponsors are acknowledged. Product Links in the description are typically affiliate links that let you help support the channel at no extra cost. 
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Impeccable as always Justin !
I like your new couch! :)
I have only used some functions of curvizard, so it was useful to see it demonstrated! Thanks Justin!
Thanks Joseph! Glad you found it useful!
Thanks a lot that was helpful.
Used it in a complex topographic work with loads of isometric polylines composed of more than 20k segments. Worked just fine reducing the SU file by more than 75%... much lighter to work it through Sandobox. TY Curvizard 🍺🍺
awsome tutorials. keep up the great work
Thanks very much!
Awesome again
Thanks James!
hi justin is this plugin available for mac users?
Is this plugin good for make velodrome for cycling?
Good tut, as always! You explain fast and clear how extensions work. +1 sub 4U. However, if you turn on Endpoints of edges in Styles or/and change Seletion Color to yellow for example, it would help seeing what exactly Welding does ;)
Glad you liked it and thanks for the feedback!
This is probably irrelevant by now but the names of the two patrons are Andrew (or Andrei) and Demchenko in Russian.
hi brother, I can't download curvizard
Looking forward to using it to clean up imported svg files. Technically I have to convert them in blender, but the points are always so weird and uneven. This will be nice thankyou.
hi, please give me some advice, is blender easier than sketchup? including rendering quality and everything else.
Hi !!! im trying to download the curvizard and didn't wok... where i can get it??? and what you recomend for landscaping????
What do you mean it didn't work? Did you follow the link in the description?
TheSketchUpEssentials. I did but i don't have idea what its not working... And sometimems when i open a 3d interior with a lot of decorations and all that take for ever to open and said ( not responding) i got a gamer computer...should be fast :(
I want to learn this but you go way to fast for me. Is there anybody out there than can build an airport terminal for me that I can put into Xplane? If so, that would be great. Let me know and I will say what airport. It's really small but I can't figure out this program.
I can build anything ...message me
It is very good, the instructions are so fast that it is difficult to understand.
Sorry about the speed on this one, but glad you found it helpful!
The link to the website you shared is paid and it doesn't allow me to register
Since this video was made 4 years ago, a number of Fredo's extensions have become paid (though at a very reasonable price in my opinion). That's a developer decision that I have no control over
@@Thesketchupessentials The thing is that when you register to the website they ask you to pay a yearly subscription of 75$ and I decline to pay and it says that I will have only free access without the premium which is fine. But then it doesn't recognise that I even registered and says that I don't have an account. It seems to me that you can access the website's content only if you pay the premium.
I am happy to pay the developer a couple of dollars but don't want to pay a full subscription to the website. I just can't get access. It is a shame that you can't get it from the Extension Warehouse.
@@todorv.todorov5055 No, you definitely do not need to pay the premium to get access to the plugin store. As to the registration issues, I don't know what's causing those as it would be a server side thing with SketchUcation. Maybe try a different email address?
@@Thesketchupessentials I tried with a different email, but it still for some reason doesn't want to give me access I even stopped my antivirus thinking that it might block the access...the same story.
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Hi there!