Add-on extrude / sweep mesh edges along mesh edges?

cekuhnen · December 25, 2020, 3:12pm

Hi

anybody maybe aware of an add-on that allows Blender to extrude / sweep a mesh selection along mesh edges?

I know one could use the curve tool - but this adds more steps and complexity than needed for some basic quick mesh modeling …

RSEhlers · December 25, 2020, 5:50pm

Have you looked at Poly-Sweeper? Not sure if this is what you are looking for…

cekuhnen · December 25, 2020, 7:56pm

I did but it seems very cumbersome to use.

I am looking for something like Sweep 1 or Sweep 2 Rail like in Rhino (standard nurbs tools) or how the follow me command works in SketchUp.

This is for my interior design students and they are spoiled but some of the rather very well designed tools in SketchUp

Hologram · December 25, 2020, 9:10pm

If I recall correctly Miratools may have such a feature: MiraTools

cekuhnen · December 26, 2020, 1:18am

I don’t think Mira had it either - I just read their manual today.

Too bad such modeling abilities are not part of blender

Rastart · December 26, 2020, 9:34am

Have you tried the polysweeper free version?
It has Just the essential operator.
I m working right now at a new release of the free version and If you have any hints about I would be happy to try to implement !

jachtarfranko · December 26, 2020, 10:53am

Can polysweeper make sweep along only chain of edges ?

Rastart · December 26, 2020, 11:32am

No, but It would be easy to implement, i m re-writing the free version like a separated addon more straigth forward use, without a dedicated Tab, so every hints would be usefull.
If the result Will be very solid maybe I could send It to be included in official.

here a simple use case (Just the first 10 seconds):

For profile sweeping I use also “angle tool” addon and “curve lib” addon

cekuhnen · December 26, 2020, 1:56pm

I did look at it but found it a tick confusing to use and I get many error messages.
It would be nice if the sweep could use only an edge selection too.

If you want I am more than happy to help with testing.

And I fully agree - it would be nice to integrate this into blender offcial.

Rastart · December 26, 2020, 2:26pm

Very good! I’ll send you the new version soon!

cekuhnen · December 28, 2020, 5:00pm

Perfect - I just checked Hexagon one more time.
It has some of those poly modeling tools.

But what ideally would be the best is being able to sweep while in edit mode

Rastart · January 15, 2021, 8:46pm

Polysweeper 0.1.0 released
now we can think about single edge loop sweep ecc…

thajmul_hussain · January 18, 2021, 6:35am

i followed your video but I did not get sweep along my profile.
it appears message “profile not suitable for sweeping” why? kindly explain.

Rastart · January 18, 2021, 7:03am

Can you send me the blend file?

thajmul_hussain · January 18, 2021, 7:05am

thanks for the reply.oktest.blend (817.5 KB)

Rastart · January 18, 2021, 7:47am

Thanx! Just some profile issues to fix
the profile obj also has to be 0 rotation.
I can easily fix this by code, tutorial on profile creation added on the todo list.

test_fixed.blend (827.1 KB)

thajmul_hussain · January 18, 2021, 7:54am

thnk for the reply.it works fine. thanks for your effort

bkjernisted · January 18, 2021, 10:20am

Give this a try. Works great. Indispensible. https://blendermarket.com/products/crown-molding-pack?ref=2 Stephen Leger also has an addon for this. https://gumroad.com/blender_archipack?recommended_by=search Thanks

cekuhnen · January 20, 2021, 2:41am

the sweep scale is based on the size of the edge loop faces?

Rastart · January 20, 2021, 12:32pm

yes, if you keep the “normal scale” parameter to 1 the profile scale is proportional to edge ring length, the scale parameter is just a multiply factor on the normal vector.