Rounding Shapes in SketchUp with RoundCorner - SketchUp Plugin of the Week #13

This week&SketchUp extension of the week allows you to round and bevel the corners of objects. ----------------------------------------------------------- Short Intro SketchUp is a really good modeling software for creating shapes with polygons. However, sometimes, you need to take your polygons and round them out to make softer, more complete shapes. This week’s extension gives you the ability to bevel and round edges in your model. Plugin Name: RoundCorner Plugin Developer: Fredo6 How Much does it cost? Free! Please donate to your developer. Where do you get it? Tool Functions This tool is a plugin designed to help you create rounded and beveled corners. As with most Fredo6 extensions, it has a number of options that allow you to see what your changes will look like in real time. You can select all the faces in a group, or individual faces to round off. You can set the offset for rounding, and the plugin will provide you a preview of how large the offset is. You can also set the number of segments that are created in your round edges, allowing you to easily manage the number of faces created in your model. It has 3 basic functions – round corner in 3d, sharp corner in 3d, and bevel. Roundcorner and sharp corner are very similar. The difference is the way they actually handle intersecting corner geometry. Roundcorner creates a curve on the exterior corners, while sharp corner brings the corners to a point. Bevel will take the edges of the faces selected and create a...