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    • D Offline
      davidlouis
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      TIG

      I have replaced an archaic version of the Mirror tool with your new one and see that the right mouse context choice is now gone and only the icon in the toolbar is there. Could you please re-intoduce the necessary lines in the code to enable it to appear in the context menu....

      Sorry but i am a creature of habit and the use of the icon interrupts my usual workflow...

      Thanks in advance.

      Dave

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      • TIGT Offline
        TIG Moderator
        last edited by

        @davidlouis said:

        TIG
        I have replaced an archaic version of the Mirror tool with your new one and see that the right mouse context choice is now gone and only the icon in the toolbar is there. Could you please re-introduce the necessary lines in the code to enable it to appear in the context menu....
        Sorry but i am a creature of habit and the use of the icon interrupts my usual workflow...
        Thanks in advance.
        Dave

        Sorry about that...
        I disabled it temporarily whilst I was doing something else!
        Here's v3.5 that has it reintroduced...
        http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=276512#p276512
        πŸ˜’

        TIG

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          budz
          last edited by

          thanks for sharing a great plugins like this sir,..

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            LannorMov
            last edited by

            Tig: Thanks for that gift so beautiful. I'm using a lot and it works well.

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              Dominance
              last edited by

              thanks for your sharing

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                derei
                last edited by

                @TIG: Could you make some loader for this ? I would like to have a folder with "MI.png, Mirror.rb and toggleWindows.rb" and a Mirror_loader.rb (or similar). Win32API.so I thinks it's best to stay in Plugins folder, as it is used by more plugins.

                Thanks a lot.

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

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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  @unknownuser said:

                  @TIG: Could you make some loader for this ? I would like to have a folder with "MI.png, Mirror.rb and toggleWindows.rb" and a Mirror_loader.rb (or similar). Win32API.so I thinks it's best to stay in Plugins folder, as it is used by more plugins.

                  Thanks a lot.

                  If you want to move files you need to rewrite the menu/toolbar part of their code to ensure the files are found in the new sub-folder.
                  A loader is a simply a file in the ../Plugins/ folder called perhaps myloader.rb containing this line of code
                  load "mysubfolder/myscript.rb"
                  The line can be repeated for multiple files to be loaded...
                  Where mysubfolder is a folder in ../Plugins/ containing the script myscript.rb that you want loading...

                  TIG

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                    dedmin
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                    Today I noticed when I mirror a component the mirrored copy gets "Scale definition" active. When click to reset it rotates 180 degree, when choose to scale the original now gets "Scale definition"?

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                    • TIGT Offline
                      TIG Moderator
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                      @dedmin said:

                      Today I noticed when I mirror a component the mirrored copy gets "Scale definition" active. When click to reset it rotates 180 degree, when choose to scale the original now gets "Scale definition"?

                      The component instance will be scaled '-1' in the selected direction[s]. Resetting the scale should revert to the original scaling... πŸ˜•

                      TIG

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                        dedmin
                        last edited by

                        And may be this is the cause of my troubles with the components getting unique! I did a lot of models with the Mirror Selection - now I just copied instead of mirror and components don't convert to unique!

                        2010-12-04_225028.png

                        2010-12-04_225223.png

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                          paddyclown
                          last edited by

                          hello

                          maybe i've missed something, but I tried mirror 3.5 with sketchyphysics and it won't do the mirror operation... Once the sketchyphisics has been removed no problem... I had thought I had understood that 3.5 fixed this (amongst other things)... shame as it's a great tool.
                          (using v7 on a vista platform)...

                          thanks anyway to TIG for all the time & trouble.

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                          • TIGT Offline
                            TIG Moderator
                            last edited by

                            This is a known bug caused by SketchyPhysics rewriting the code of some of the API's own Group class, which is used by Mirror. I'm not sure what the issue is.
                            Perhaps if you bring pressure to bear on the SketchyPhysics side they could fix their code to stop the problem!
                            AS SketchyPhysics loads after Mirror could you try renaming 'Mirror.rb' as 'zMirror.rb' so it loads afterwards -perhaps what SP breaks will stay OK this way and hopefully SP will still work... πŸ˜•

                            TIG

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                              paddyclown
                              last edited by

                              @tig said:

                              This is a known bug caused by SketchyPhysics rewriting the code of some of the API's own Group class, which is used by Mirror. I'm not sure what the issue is.
                              Perhaps if you bring pressure to bear on the SketchyPhysics side they could fix their code to stop the problem!
                              AS SketchyPhysics loads after Mirror could you try renaming 'Mirror.rb' as 'zMirror.rb' so it loads afterwards -perhaps what SP breaks will stay OK this way and hopefully SP will still work... πŸ˜•

                              Thanks for yr speedy reply... I tried the workaround, but alas to no avail ! I guess you're right, we have to ask the SP guys to fix there stuff ! Thanks anyway, & meantime their stuff is out & yours is in as totally indispensable (I don't understand why the gogol people haven't put in a mirror command as a basic standard tool like in any other cad program !).

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                                xinxin
                                last edited by

                                Thank you!I have downloaded it.

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                                  Fletch
                                  last edited by

                                  Hi TIG,
                                  Thank you for sharing all of your wonderful talents. This + the imagetrimmer.rb 😲 are very nice.

                                  I haven't had time to read this whole thread, so sorry if this issue has been mentioned before:
                                  On my machine, when I have the toolbar for Mirror open, and I double-click a component or group to edit - it can take about 4-5 seconds to actually open the group or component. This was killing me until I tried just closing the mirror36.rb toolbar button. I downloaded the .rb file from this thread just tonight. I thought to close the toolbar and the problem went away. I would have no idea why. I have a shortcut assigned and don't need the toolbar anyway.

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

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                                  • TIGT Offline
                                    TIG Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    @fletch said:

                                    Hi TIG,
                                    Thank you for sharing all of your wonderful talents. This + the imagetrimmer.rb 😲 are very nice.
                                    I haven't had time to read this whole thread, so sorry if this issue has been mentioned before:
                                    On my machine, when I have the toolbar for Mirror open, and I double-click a component or group to edit - it can take about 4-5 seconds to actually open the group or component. This was killing me until I tried just closing the mirror36.rb toolbar button. I downloaded the .rb file from this thread just tonight. I thought to close the toolbar and the problem went away. I would have no idea why. I have a shortcut assigned and don't need the toolbar anyway.

                                    Make sure you have v3.6 installed...
                                    It might be because there's a context-menu too ?
                                    To stop the toolbar being made at all you can simply move the button file 'MI.png' out of the ../Plugins/ folder and then there will be no toolbar as it only gets made IF the button's png is found.
                                    To stop the context-menu item appearing you can open the 'Mirror.rb' file in Notepad.exe or another equivalent plain text editor [NOT a wordprocessor] and near the end of the code around line #376 there's this block of text

                                    UI.add_context_menu_handler do |menu|### v3.5 TIG
                                          #if Sketchup.active_model.selection
                                            #menu.add_separator
                                            menu.add_item("Mirror Selection"){Sketchup.active_model.select_tool(MirrorTool.new)}
                                          #end#if
                                       end#do menu###
                                    

                                    change it so the UI.add..., menu.add... and end#do... lines all start with a #, thus

                                    #UI.add_context_menu_handler do |menu|### v3.5 TIG
                                          #if Sketchup.active_model.selection
                                            #menu.add_separator
                                            #menu.add_item("Mirror Selection"){Sketchup.active_model.select_tool(MirrorTool.new)}
                                          #end#if
                                       #end#do menu###
                                    
                                    • now there'll be no context-menu.
                                      Having done this you'll only have the main Plugins menu item 'Mirror' to shortcut to.

                                    Incidentally if you'd like the tool to appear in say the 'Tools' menu and be named 'Mirror' you can simply edit line #370

                                    UI.menu("Plugins").add_item("Mirror Selection"){Sketchup.active_model.select_tool(MirrorTool.new)}
                                    

                                    to read

                                    UI.menu("Tools").add_item("Mirror"){Sketchup.active_model.select_tool(MirrorTool.new)}
                                    

                                    TIG

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                                      Fletch
                                      last edited by

                                      Thanks a lot TIG.
                                      I was in a (rather) large file, and perhaps it was just a glitch happening with the machine/RAM/etc.
                                      Everything seems fine today (with or without toolbar showing)... I do appreciate the info, however, as there are times I wish I could modify these things in some rubies. πŸ€“

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

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                                      • mariochaM Offline
                                        mariocha
                                        last edited by

                                        I confirm that circles get exploded in some cases.
                                        Not when they are free standing, but when they are part of a face, like on top of a cube, yes. 😞
                                        Pretty annoying.

                                        %(#008000)[Mario C.
                                        Every rule has exceptions, but some.]

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                                        • TIGT Offline
                                          TIG Moderator
                                          last edited by

                                          Mario

                                          I've tested what you say and can't get a circle or arc to 'explode' after mirroring πŸ˜•
                                          Are you using the latest version?
                                          Can you supply a skp where you do get this issue, so that I can test it...

                                          TIG

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                                          • TIGT Offline
                                            TIG Moderator
                                            last edited by

                                            Your gif doesn't auto animate ??
                                            A face with edges should copy and mirror OK, loose edges/arc == edges ?? πŸ˜•

                                            TIG

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