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    • C Offline
      CodyV1
      last edited by

      Also haven't tried this myself either. But, how about equalizing the hight of components placed. Like if you have windows and their everywhere, just enter a hight or chose a component that you want to be adjacent to the others? πŸ‘ πŸ‘Ž ❓

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
        last edited by

        It would be a different plugin, but it would be an interesting way for bulk adjustments.
        An align tool, where you specify bottom/center/top etc. and then just make a sweep across the comps/groups you want to adjust.

        I do like this way of choosing entities - I want to explore further ways other than the traditional pre-select or click-click-click select.

        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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          agamemnus
          last edited by

          I (think) I always wanted something like this; downloading it now! πŸ˜„

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          • A Offline
            arjunmax09
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            @unknownuser said:

            About the glue πŸ’š

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            LOL!!! πŸ˜† πŸ˜† πŸ˜† ultimate man..TINTIN IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE CARTOON SERIES..used to watch it everyday on cartoon network when i was in class VI πŸ˜†

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            • pilouP Offline
              pilou
              last edited by

              I have find a use of Super Glue πŸ˜„
              and at last understood the use πŸ’š
              punchy1.jpg

              Frenchy Pilou
              Is beautiful that please without concept!
              My Little site :)

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                Fletch
                last edited by

                @gaieus said:

                @thomthom said:

                @unknownuser said:

                HAve you a little animation of what must the glue's pot must do?

                A video of the plugin in use? Yes I'll make one once I make v1.1.0.

                Here you go sir (especially, with the annotations it is pretty fast so pause it when needed):

                OH! Thanks so much Gaius, I was very confused what the point of this plugin was... so now, when I copy lights on the ceiling and they don't cut the opening in the face, the "Superglue" will "fix" it so that they DO cut the opening... BRILLIANT! β˜€

                Thanks for sharing, ThomThom!

                Fletch
                Twilight Render Cross-platform Plugin for SketchUp on PC or Mac

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
                  last edited by

                  @fletch said:

                  OH! Thanks so much Gaius, I was very confused what the point of this plugin was... so now, when I copy lights on the ceiling and they don't cut the opening in the face, the "Superglue" will "fix" it so that they DO cut the opening... BRILLIANT! β˜€

                  Provided that the axes are correct for the component you try to glue on - if the axis isn't aligned to match the face you try to glue on it won't do anything.

                  Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                  List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                  • pilouP Offline
                    pilou
                    last edited by

                    No more need glue for the plug Component Punch!!!
                    Tig found just add a # at the line 186 and all works fine! πŸ‘

                    My bottle of glue will be full at the end of the week πŸ’š
                    Sorry Thomthom πŸ˜†
                    Edit Ah damned , this modify works only on the same face!

                    My bottle of glue will be empty at the end of the week πŸ’š

                    Frenchy Pilou
                    Is beautiful that please without concept!
                    My Little site :)

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                      pilou
                      last edited by

                      Edit Curious this morning all works fine! 😲

                      http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=54488

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                        free agent
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                        hey thom thom just tried this ruby and works great. thanx alot πŸ‘

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          Sean! πŸŽ‰
                          Long time no see. How are you?
                          What have you been up to? Are you completely Max person now? Got some new work to show off?

                          Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                            free agent
                            last edited by

                            Im good, you? and nope, i speak max and sketchup πŸ˜„ sketchups just too easy to completely throw out of ones workflow.

                            check out the company blog http://www.constructmedia.co.uk/news πŸ˜„ will post some new stuff soon

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                              ellen_leung
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                              i dont understand how to use it, can anyone help explain to me?

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                              • GaieusG Offline
                                Gaieus
                                last edited by

                                Hi Ellen,

                                Here is a short video with captions:

                                YouTube - Superglue Plugin for SketchUp by ThomThom
                                [flash=480,385:22ve9z34]http://www.youtube.com/v/VS8-tjYTPXM?fs=1&hl=hu_HU[/flash:22ve9z34]

                                Gai...

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                                • dereiD Offline
                                  derei
                                  last edited by

                                  It seems to not work for me 😞

                                  I made a component that makes a hole in a face, when I take the component from Components window, it cuts hole, if I copy it from model ( + Ctrl), it doesn't cut hole. I used Superglue on it, it doesn't cut hole. Am I misusing the plugin? Why that components don't cut hole when I copy them?

                                  DESIGNER AND ARTIST [DEREI.UK](http://derei.uk/l)

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                                  • thomthomT Offline
                                    thomthom
                                    last edited by

                                    @unknownuser said:

                                    It seems to not work for me 😞

                                    I made a component that makes a hole in a face, when I take the component from Components window, it cuts hole, if I copy it from model ( + Ctrl), it doesn't cut hole. I used Superglue on it, it doesn't cut hole. Am I misusing the plugin? Why that components don't cut hole when I copy them?

                                    Can you post sample model?

                                    Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                    • dereiD Offline
                                      derei
                                      last edited by

                                      can't explain myself. I saved the model as new file, it worked there. In the original one doesn't want. I copied the model in a new sketchup window, it doesn't work.
                                      It looks like is a sketchup glitch, rather than model-related.

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                                      • thomthomT Offline
                                        thomthom
                                        last edited by

                                        Are you trying to clue the component onto a face directly, or is the face wrapped in a group/component?

                                        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                        • TIGT Offline
                                          TIG Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          When you place a component from the Component-Browser it is put onto your cursor at that component's origin, this is necessary because the origin [axes] must be put down snapped onto a face so that the instance will be assigned that face which it can then 'glue' and 'cut'.
                                          If you copy an already placed instance using Move+Ctrl you need to pick a point on the face that the instance is glued to [or a corner of the instance that is on that face]; then when you pick a new face the component will again find a face to glue/cut. BUT if you pick a point that's off the original's glued face then you won't be able to snap the copy onto another face because it'll always be placed non-planar to a face.
                                          Similarly, if your cutting component has geometry [like a frame/surround or a projecting-sill] that projects in front of the plane of the wall face [and therefore the cut hole] when you use Edit>Copy and then Edit>Paste the cursor that's locked on to the copy is placed NOT always at the copy's 'origin' BUT sometimes at its bounding-box minimum extents, which isn't then going to be the component's 'origin' [especially if the source instance is itself not glued to a face] - so when you snap it onto a face it will not find any face that is coincident with its origin, so there's no gluing and therefore no cut. I suspect that SuperGlue - like other '[re]gluing' tools - looks for a face below the instance's origin and if it can't then find one then there's no gluing and therefore no cutting. A component that's located with its origin a few mm away a face is just as 'unconnected' to that face as if it were placed meters away in empty space.
                                          Conversely, if you have a 'flush' cutting component with no projections in front of the wall face it will Copy/Paste quite satisfactorily, as in this case the cursor will be in the same plane as the component's origin [even if it's perhaps not on the origin itself] and so subsequent snapping of it onto a face will this time find that face coincident with the origin, and which it can then use to glue/cut...
                                          Hence you can get seemingly odd behavior across different types of gluing/cutting components when they are copied, IF you fail to appreciate what is happening with the object's geometry and the cursor...
                                          To see it in action try making a completely flush cutting component and also another version with very large projecting sill [500mm!], use the Component-Browser to place instances of both into a wall and then watch where the cursor is located during subsequent copy/paste operations and the success/failure to glue/cut for the copies, and copies of copies, or copies of non-glued instances etc πŸ€“

                                          TIG

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                                          • dereiD Offline
                                            derei
                                            last edited by

                                            My last thought is that in original model was some small deviation from "coplanar" ... because as i said before, I wrapped everything in a component, I saved as new file, then opened and it cut hole by copying and by placing from Component Browser.
                                            In original model it did not cut hole by copying, just by placing new component from Component Browser. When I copied I was on face with the cursor. I tested that by exploding the component and it merged with the face.

                                            DESIGNER AND ARTIST [DEREI.UK](http://derei.uk/l)

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