Mirror Function!!!!
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I love Sketch Up, and use it for all of my architectural renderings, but my one criticism: no mirror function. Many of my designs are symmetrical in nature, and I could save so much time if there was a mirror tool. Is this something that could be included in the next version of sketchup? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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You can already mirror/flip with tho native SU toolas and then there is TIG's Mirror ruby as well: http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/em_edi_page.htm
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Gaieus is right. simply right-click the object in question and choose "Flip along...", then you can decide along which axis you want to mirror it.
or you select the component, and use the scale-tool to scale it to -1. that does exactly the same.
if you press Control+C before scaling to copy the object and after you did the canges you choose "Edit>Paste in Place" you have both sides of your symmetrical object.
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@plot-paris said:
...if you press Control+C before scaling to copy the object and after you did the canges you choose "Edit>Paste in Place" you have both sides of your symmetrical object.
This is a cool trick, Jacob!
I use copy(then do whatever) and paste in place quite often but would have never thought of this trick (although I even presented about this in BaseCamp
)Thanks!
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I have to admit, that I didn't know of "paste in place" at all five months ago.
then I assigned a shortcut for it ("Ctrl+Shift+V"). and it is one of the most often used functions by now. especially when I try to keep the tree structure of groups tidy and find a group that is supposed to be within another for example - its just Ctrl+X, enter the group, Ctrl+Shift+V...
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Yeah,I also do that all the time but never used (for some reason never thought of using) it with the scale/mirror function.
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