[Plugin] Mirror

[kaas]

Anyone else has experienced crashes using the mirror plugin in V2020?

Mirroring nested groups and/or components several times have caused a crash of SU (bugsplat screen). Sometimes it goes ok, sometimes not.

Saving the file now before using the command. Pre 20 never had to do that.

[TIG]

I've tested it quite a bit in v2020, and do not see any BugSplats...

Anything specific in your case ?
e.g. scaled instances, Outliner open etc ??

[kaas]

@tig said:

Anything specific in your case ?

Strange, nothing specific (to me) although;

• outliner is always open - was never a problem pre v20
• the top part in the hierarchy is a component with axis at the origin
• nested in this main component are many groups.

Will keep an eye open next week for crashes and see if I notice a pattern.

[bik]

Same crash for me with Sketchup 2020...
Sometimes crash, sometimes not. Strange.
Thank you for your work.

[S1919]

HI, the circle issue again, but currently in V2021 your argument that circle can't be copied without a face is untrue. The circel stays now intact!

Can you correct this behaviour for mirror also?
For CNC work this would be great.... as you probably know.

Thanks in advance,

Searchie

@tig said:

It's the way that Sketchup itself works...

Try this manual test.

Make a circle.
Group it - including its face in the selection.
Copy the group.
Edit it, you find that the circle remains a circle.

Now make another circle.
Group it - this time excluding its face from the selection.
Copy the group.
Edit it, you find that the circle is now is pieces.

Because Mirror has to make a group and copy it to do the scaling/mirroring then it will fail to keep the circle-ness of the circle if it has no face[s] selected with it in the group - exactly as occurs when you do it by hand

It's a shortcoming in Sketchup not Mirror...

[joxenfe]

Help! I love this plugin (easily the best and my most used of all plugins).

However, my '21 SU (Mac) has been crashing when closing or switching files which, as I understand, is typically a plugin problem. I removed the plugin and it seemed to fix this issue. I tried downloading and re-installing the plugin with the latest version, but that does not seem to resolve the crashes.

Please help! I miss it so dearly.

specs:
2019 MacBook Pro, 2.4 GHz 8-core i9
32 GB 2667 MHZ DDR4
AMD Radeon Pro 5600M -8 GB
macOS Big Sur 11.2
SU 21.0.392

[TIG]

Mirror doesn't do anything to SketchUp's internal settings.
It works fine for me in v2021 [PC].
What's your MAC OS ?

So its use should not be connected...
Can you run it with the Ruby Console open and report any error messages...

[Einstein]

Hello,
I have an idea - it would be very handy to have an axis snapping feature based on keyboard arrows, similar to the one in the native line tool.
The exact behaviour I have in mind is:

1. Activate the tool,
2. Pick first point,
3. hit one of the keyboard arrows while guiding a "virtual line" to lock direction: X, Y or Z,
4. possibly repeat for the second line, so the two lines will quickly form one of the main planes: XY, XZ or YZ. Alternatively, only one line could be locked to a main axis, and the other would be drawn freely.

Sure, there is axis snapping for this tool already, and it works well. Though, in some situations using arrows to instantly snap the "virtual line" to axes would benefit for working speed.

It's just a suggestion, if you have time and will to further develop this tool

[0FRenZY0]

The Mirror extension doesn’t seem to be locking to any axis when arrow keys are pressed.
Sometimes its very difficult to lock to a particular axis with cursor(mouse) only.

Using arrow keys to lock to a particular axis would be a very helpful feature to this extension.
Just like native drafting tools in sketchup.

[JGA]

@0frenzy0 said:

The Mirror extension doesn’t seem to be locking to any axis when arrow keys are pressed.

Try adjusting your viewpoint in the model, then it works as well as the native line command.