RoundCorner 2.1 performs the rounding of the edges and corners of 3D shapes along a 2D profile, in 3 modes: Round corners, Sharp corners and Bevel. RoundCorner also supports concave corners (always rendered as Round) and non-orthogonal edge faces. Corners can have 2, 3, or more edges.
- Language: English, French, Spanish, Chinese, German (thanks to all kind translators). Thanks to Christophe Plassais for the French user manual.
- Menus: by default, it is installed in Tools > Fredo6 Collection > RoundCorner
- Icon toolbar: by Default ‘RoundCorner’. 3 icons are available, but you can configure which ones to display (menu Default Parameters…)
- The plugin is free, for private and commercial usage. There is a donation menu however.
1) Download and Open the archive
2) Select All (Ctrl A)
3) Extract into the Sketchup Plugin Directory
4) Answer YES to overwrite all existing files if any
The footprint in the SU Plugin Directory must be:
On Mac the SU plugin directory should be:
Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/plugins
CAUTION: NEVER rename or move files from their folders. If you are unsure of your unzip operation, do it in a neutral folder and check that you reconstruct the right footprint. Then transfer the folders and files to the SU Plugin Directory.
DOWNLOAD RoundCorner 2.1c – 11 Nov 09
IMPORTANT: Requires to download LibFredo6 3.3 or higher if not already installed
Additional language files: to drop into ROUNDCORNER_Dir_21 subfolder
German (by eichenherz)
Chinese (by diweiman)
- Select geometry (edges, faces) and click on one of the 3 icons. Edges are highlighted in Red and the offset borders in green. For convenience, you have several selection modes which can be activated via the buttons in the left part of the palette (or via Ctrl and Shift keys)
- You can add / remove edges from the selection by clicking on a single edge, on a face (include all edges of the face) or double click (include all connected edges)
- Adjust the Offset parameter by typing the new value in the VCB or clicking in the small field in the button palette. This will be reflected in the preview.
- Adjust the number of segments for the rounding (default is 6). Click in the button palette or type a new value followed by ‘s’ in the VCB
- You have other parameters which you modify. See documentation.
- Click in the empty space or on the checkmark icon to generate the model
- Note: you can save the parameters across Sketchup session by using the small icons with a disk and letter. See documentation
- It is always a good idea to check the contextual menu to see available options
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.
Note: there may be some limitations and issues for some complex geometric configurations.
RoundCorner 2.1c - 11 Nov 09: Stable version
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