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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.

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      • TIGT Offline
        TIG Moderator
        last edited by

        If the component has non-coplanar parts you might get the cursor no longer being in the face when the copy is snapped.
        Can you save_as the component and post it so we can have a better idea of what's going on... πŸ˜•

        TIG

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        • brewskyB Offline
          brewsky
          last edited by

          Great little plugin! πŸ˜„
          Found it thanks to the new Extention Warehouse, should have seen this years ago!

          It would be great if you could add a "glue" option to the context menu(below the standard "unglue" option).

          Cheers!
          Jan

          Sketchup BIM-Tools - http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=299107

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by

            @brewsky said:

            It would be great if you could add a "glue" option to the context menu(below the standard "unglue" option).

            Good idea!

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

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
              last edited by

              Though... not quite sure how to work out what face to glue it to...

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

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              • TIGT Offline
                TIG Moderator
                last edited by

                The re-glue tool in my HolePunch tool works out the instance.transformation and gets the .origin and .zaxis and looks for a face in the instance.parent.entities that shares the same normal as the .zaxis and also that has a good classify_point result for the .origin ... So it is possible...

                TIG

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                • brewskyB Offline
                  brewsky
                  last edited by

                  @thomthom said:

                  Though... not quite sure how to work out what face to glue it to...

                  Checking every face in the active collection for a common plane with the component could probably get slow...
                  http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/geom.php#intersect_plane_plane
                  If that's too slow, maybe only check if a cutting component AND a face are selected?

                  Sketchup BIM-Tools - http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=299107

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                  • brewskyB Offline
                    brewsky
                    last edited by

                    @tig said:

                    a good classify_point result for the .origin ...

                    Didn't think of that, you are right, you need a classify_point otherwise it could glue to a face on the same plane a mile off! πŸ˜„

                    Sketchup BIM-Tools - http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=299107

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                    • thomthomT Offline
                      thomthom
                      last edited by

                      Wonder what performance that has. ..but I guess it doesn't need to be fast...

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

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                      • TIGT Offline
                        TIG Moderator
                        last edited by

                        You don't need to iterate every face in the array from:
                        faces=instance.parent.entities.grep(SketchUp::Face)
                        The loop can break when a face with a matching normal && classify_point match is found and you do the re-glue.
                        That means on average you only need to look at ~50% of the faces to get a re-glue.
                        On a bad day you need to look through all of the faces, only to find it's the last one == slowest possible re-glue; or there are no suitable faces at all == a "no-glue" !
                        On your lucky day you might look at the first face and find it's a match == instant re-glue...

                        TIG

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          True that. Will give it a bash. Thanks.

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

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