Assign materials to both sides?

mirale999

Is thare a plugin that can let me assign a material in one go to both sides?
One click,two sides of the face. I think this function is good, when to build models for exporting into 3dsmax~
I've found Builder Boy's plugin
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=32839 Is there a plugin: one click two sides?

TIG

This "one-liner" copy/pasted into the Ruby Console makes all faces in the current selection have the same material front and back... BUT don't use it as an excuse for sloppy modeling

Sketchup.active_model.selection.each{|e|next if e.class!=Sketchup;;Face;e.back_material=e.material if e.material;e.material=e.back_material if not e.material}

If a face has a front-material then it's duplicated on its back, if it doesn't have a front-material the back-material [if any] is duplicated on its front.
It doesn't work on 'nested faces' unless you edit the group/instance and then 'select all', and then run the snippet...

mirale999

@tig said:

This "one-liner" copy/pasted into the Ruby Console makes all faces in the current selection have the same material front and back... BUT don't use it as an excuse for sloppy modeling

Sketchup.active_model.selection.each{|e|next if e.class!=Sketchup;;Face;e.back_material=e.material if e.material;e.material=e.back_material if not e.material}

If a face has a front-material then it's duplicated on its back, if it doesn't have a front-material the back-material [if any] is duplicated on its front.

It doesn't work on 'nested faces' unless you edit the group/instance and then 'select all', and then run the snippet...

Thanks for your advice~ I'm lazy I was drawing a concept model, so I thought that sort of plugin can make something easy...

Guillo_Ortiz

Hi, I know this is and old post, but could this be done keeping the orientation?

TIG

@guillo_ortiz said:

Hi, I know this is and old post, but could this be done keeping the orientation?
Please explain 'orientation'.

Do you mean flipping a material's texture so that the image aligns front and back ?

I think that there's separate thread about this...
I'll search...

TIG

After thinking a bit more...
https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=FixReversedFaceMaterials
[an oldie by me]
Has several tools.
It's primary aim is to reverse faces that have a texture on their back, and then move the texture onto the front - needed by most renderers.
But it does have tools to replicate a material on front and back faces...
Try it...

cotty

ThruPaint (part of FredoTools) can paint both sides with one click too...

jmartlncln

@tig said:

This "one-liner" copy/pasted into the Ruby Console makes all faces in the current selection have the same material front and back... BUT don't use it as an excuse for sloppy modeling

Sketchup.active_model.selection.each{|e|next if e.class!=Sketchup;;Face;e.back_material=e.material if e.material;e.material=e.back_material if not e.material}

If a face has a front-material then it's duplicated on its back, if it doesn't have a front-material the back-material [if any] is duplicated on its front.

It doesn't work on 'nested faces' unless you edit the group/instance and then 'select all', and then run the snippet...

This is very useful! Is there a way to make it run through nested groups and components too? Also I need to look up how to add this, but a single click undo?

j_jones

@tig said:

After thinking a bit more...
https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=FixReversedFaceMaterials
[an oldie by me]
Has several tools.
It's primary aim is to reverse faces that have a texture on their back, and then move the texture onto the front - needed by most renderers.
But it does have tools to replicate a material on front and back faces...
Try it...

This is awesome thanks so much!