[Plugin] RoundCorner - v2.1c - 11 Nov 09

[Fredo6]

RoundCorner performs the rounding of the edges and corners of 3D shapes along a 2D profile, in 3 modes: Round corners, Sharp corners and Bevel. It requires you upgrade to LibFredo6 3.3a or higher. See that post at http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=17947#p144178.
Doc in English -->

Quickcard RoundCorner - English - v2.1.pdf

[Chinese version - 11 Nov 09 - 21:40 CET
Here is the LANG file for the Chinese version, produced by Diweiman and the SuBAR_CLT team at SketchupBar.
In the attached Zip file, there is a file RoundCorner_ZH.lang, which should go to the ROUNDCORNER_Dir_21 subfolder.
Do not forget to download the chinese version for LibFredo6 (see http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=17947&p=144178#p144178).

RoundCorner_ZH.lang.zip

RoundCorner 02.png

RoundCorner 01.png

[Upgrade - 08 Oct 09- 22:15 CET -> RoundCorner 2.1c]
Translation into Spanish by Gaonirico and Documentation translated to French by Christophe Plassais, also attached here.

Quickcard RoundCorner - French - v2.1.pdf

[Upgrade - 27 Aug 09 - 23:55 CET -> RoundCorner 2.1a]
Following a suggestion from Jim, this version keeps the parameters for each of the 3 tools across Sketchup sessions. As a bonus, you can also save parameters across Sketchup sessions in memory slots designated by letters and shown in the palette (2 per default, A and B, but you can have less or more via a setting in the Default Parameters dialog box).
IMPORTANT: You must upgrade to LibFredo6 3.3 or higher.

[Upgrade - 11 Jul 09 - 19:30 CET -> RoundCorner 2.0b]
Fix for the bugsplat in SU7 (thanks to TIG, PIlou and others for helping me on that).
Thanks to signal if this is OK.

[Initial Release - 09 Jul 09 - 23:30 CET -> RoundCorner 2.0a]
First release includes Round and Sharp mode, with uniform offset and profile based on an arc of circle. A big thank to Daniel S. for the icons!
To all users: Bugsplats have been signaled in SU7 when launching the operation (but seems to work fine in SU6). Thanks to advise and give information (and model) about circumstances when it happens.

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RoundCorner performs the rounding of the edges and corners of 3D shapes along a 2D profile, by default an arc of circle. It provides 3 modes: Round corners, Sharp corners and Bevel. RoundCorner also supports convex corners (always rendered as Round) and non-orthogonal edge faces. Corners can have 2, 3, or more edges. Note that there are some limitations and issues for some geometric.

RoundCorner screenshot.jpg

Here is a video to give some idea on how it works (sorry, quality is average!). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3LBWfLNopE



CAUTION: Round Corner mode is very greedy in generation of faces and edges. For a standard cube (8 corners), with rounding made of 6 segments, you would generate a minimum of 8 x 36 + 12 x 6 = 360 new faces (possibly 680 when faces are not orthogonal and corners must be triangulated). In contrast, Sharp corner would only generate the rounding edges, with no corner, and create 12 x 6 = 60 new faces.

Installation
The plugin requires LibFredo6 v3.3 or higher.
Unzip ‘RoundCorner 2.1.zip', by doing a Select All and then Extract in the Plugins directory of Sketchup, answering YES to all prompts for file overwriting, in order to make sure you reconstruct the folder hierarchy. NEVER change the name of files or move them from their folder. The footprint should be (Windows environment):

Footprint RoundCorner 2.jpg

Note: for those having problems of installation (usually coming from a wrong unzipping operation), here is a link to the detailed footprint for RoundCorner and LibFredo6: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=20485&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=105#p181297

On Mac, the right directory for unzipping is the same as where you put LibFredo6, in principle:
Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/plugins

NOTE: Although the script technically works in Sketchup 6 and 5, it is advised to use it with Sketchup 7 preferably: it runs faster, and it also cuts nicely existing coplanar edges on bordering faces.

Documentation is included in the Zip file (and also attached in standalone to the present message). It is always a good idea to check out the palette tooltips and the contextual menu to discover the options of the plugin.

Finally, you can keep my old Script RoundEdges (by Bezier). It is based on different code and can be run in parallel. It is a little bit better than RoundCorner for Sharp mode for corners with a big number of edges.

[thomthom]

I can't wait to try out this new version.

[DacaD]

Dear Fredo6:
this is getting to a point that it's getting hard to find new words to describe your work and what your doing for this comunity and sketchup itself...so i'll just have to say:

THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

sorry for my lack of originality

I'm feeling bad for not helping you with nothing since your plugins more than once have helped finishing my (personal or professional) projects, and you never ask nothing in return for this plugins, so if you need any help in any project of yours, (modeling, texturing , rendering etc), some tips, tricks, toturials, info on software or whatever or even just a good discussion, anything that i can help just tell me. i would gladly help you

Sketchup should raise a statue to people like you or at least mentione guys like you for keeping sketchup alive and at leas just suport high poly since the plugins are getting more and more sofisticated (sorry my english) and the only things "pulling them down" it's sketchup itself with their own limits

After all the plugins you released, and all for free (are you nuts?!?!) i don't know what more to do or say to show how gratefull i am. Again: thank you

David

[xrok1]

WOW!!

[TIG]

As always another tour de force...
The tools work very well... except the bevel/chamfer - which I suspect is the simplest of the three ? - which keeps bug-splatting me e.g. a 1m cube 100/150mm bevel to top or all edges... Sure it'll be a simple fix...

[utiler]

Legend Fredo..... you don't know how much time you have saved me....

[ely862me]

Another masterpiece!!Works like a charm!
Thank you very much!

Elisei

[Coronel]

If you came to Spain you are invited to take a "sangria", wine or whatever at the named "best natural beach" of the world: Cies Islands.

Thank you very much

[CadFather]

.....the Master!

..and that's how sketchup became open source

Thank You!

[utiler]

If you came to Spain you are invited to take a "sangria", wine or whatever at the named "best natural beach" of the world: Cies Islands.

Thank you very much

That goes for Queensland, Australia..... your more than welcome here Fredo; I'll look after you like a King!!!

[EarthMover]

Looks stellar. Should help add a new level of realism to Sketchup Rendering. Nothing like a nice round corner to catch those specular highlights!

Thank you kind sir!!

[•BTM]

Amazing as usual!

[su30]

It's great!
Thank you Fredo!
I have to say your rich production and hardworking spirit affect me very much!
-best wish from beijing

[Pilou]

Rondement mené!
Bravo!

Works fine in the V6
Bug Splatt in the V7

[chango70]

That is brilliant! Thanks