Project a plane onto another plane
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I have a box flying in 3D space in custom orientation, which has a color texture. I'd like to make a sticker for it, so I created a rectangle, applied an image texture to it and now the question: how to project or align the rectangle (move and rotate) so that it's orientation is exactly the same as the orientation of one of the box faces?
By the way, is it the right way to apply a sticker to an object? I wanted to just apply an image texture to the whole box without creating a separate rectangle object, but I found out that Sketchup always tiles image textures, so the whole box would be covered while the sticker must be very small and only on one side of the box.
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Make that rectangle into a component which glues to "any" face (and cuts a hole, too, to avoid Z-fighting). Make sure to set the component axes so that the red and green axes are lying on the face.
Now whenever you pull one from the component browser, it will try to self-align itself to any face you snap it to. You may still rotate the component on the face but that should not be an issue.
See attached file.
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