Advanced Surface Modeling in SketchUp with Curviloft - Plugin of the week #4
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- Advanced Surface Modeling in SketchUp with Curviloft
Plugin of the Week #4
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This week’s Sketchup Plugin is designed to help create surfaces in SketchUp.
Plugin Name: Curviloft
Plugin Developer: Fredo6
How Much does it cost? Free! Please donate to your developer
Benefits
In SketchUp, there are a few ways you can create surfaces. You can push/pull a face. You can manually draw in your faces. You can even extrude a face along a path with the follow me tool. However, what happens if you need to create a shape that transitions into another shape, like a box that turns into a circle? Curviloft gives you several different tools designed to help you create more advanced shapes.
Where do you get it?
You can get it in the extension warehouse or from the SketchUcation store.
Cost of Plugin?
Free!
Tool Functions
This extension gives you the ability to create surfaces in several different ways.
The first is Loft by Spline. This tool is very powerful, and allows you to create a surface that runs between different shapes. You can use this to create very complex shapes.
In addition, Loft by Spline will also take multiple different lines or contours and create a surface that runs along them.
The plugin also offers options to adjust the way that surfaces are created, allowing an even greater range of customization for your surfaces.
Loft along path allows you to create a surface between points through a path you dictate.
Skinning is very powerful - it will create a surface between 3 or 4 contiguous contours, allowing for easy creation of these surfaces.
Ratings
Usefulness/Functionality - 5/5
This extension borders somewhere between useful and magical. Some of the functions are probably more advanced than the average user needs, but it allows you to do things that you wouldn’t ordinarily be able to do. Plus, with the addition of these tools, you may start modeling things that you never would have thought to before.
Value - 5/5
It’s free, and it’s amazing. Go download it now!
Ease of Use/Documentation - 3/5 -
I struggled to follow the workflow of this plugin. Even watching some of Fredo’s videos on his youtube channel, I’m still struggling with the Loft along Path function. However, the Loft by Spline function works well, and it’s really easy. I’d recommend stopping by the Curviloft post in the SketchUcation forums for more info.
Description
Overall score - 13/15.
Overall
Overall, this plugin is probably more for SketchUp power users. If you’re using this, you’re likely venturing more into the organic modeling space. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give it a try. Download it, install it, and see what you can do with it!
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Hi man, thanks for the tutorial and I mean by all of them. your tutorials are all helpful and easy to understand by the important content you arrange for your tutorials. keep up the good work !
I'm really glad they're helpful. Thanks for watching!
HI, I went looking in you video list for a tutorial on tangent and came across this one - looks like a pretty powerful and fun tool. At a more basic level, would you suggest this plugin for something as basic as drawing a straight line tangent to 2 circles or is there a simple or better way to do this. For example, I have a 200mm circle and an 80 mm circle, to which i am trying to accurately draw a tangent line on both 'sides' of the circles.
Seems like you could achieve something like this with something like that protractor tool, line tool, and circle tool - am I missing something?
@@Thesketchupessentials I don't think you are missing anything. My high school technical drawing lets me use the protractor etc - guess I was looking for a plug-in for sketchup to give me a less mechanical solution. Hoping for a magic click and click solution - lol. thank you :-)
I also still have problems understanding some functions of Curviloft. Documentation is missing :( Do you know what "generate the junctions as SU curves" does? It is sub-option of Skinning, that blue horizontal-vertical lines icon on the right. I cannot see any difference between this and standard options but it sounds like it should create Bezier curves in between.
Lol - I have no idea what that one does...I'm sure that's not quite what you were looking for, but I haven't seen any information on what that does. Sorry about that
Thanks .. it was really helpful