[Plugin] Superglue

[Gaieus]

YouTube itself has these annotation tools. The video was simply captured with CamStudio but I did not edit anything in it.

[thomthom]

Ah cool. I'm about to produce the videos for Vertex Tools now. Never uploaded to YouTube before.

[Gaieus]

Let me know if I can help (although I myself am not a great YT'er either). Also, annotations/annotating can be shared so when you get to there, I can also help with doing that part.

[EscapeArtist]

Very useful. Saves the time of having to align things with the rotate tool when they're slightly off kilter.

Thanks!

[Ben Ritter]

Thank you Thomthom.

[thomthom]

Version 1.1.0
Merged into one tool. Use Ctrl to toggle between Superglue and Solvent.

[Rich O Brien]

Thanks Thom

@gaieus
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@thom
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[pilou]

Sorry I am in total fog
I believe that you must make another video more explicte
(where are the axes of glue at the start and in which volumes...
I am waiting the Doh revelation

As you can see these 2 components have at the start no special Glue plane between them
They are just aligned
After glue no changement... so...foggy mood

[thomthom]

The components must already be defined as Glue to components. If they don't have this property they won't be glued.

The tool doesn't turn components into GlueTo components - it just glue/unglues existing ones.

[thomthom]

Here's my test file.

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Superglue.skp

[thomthom]

It's a wee bit tricker to define an arbitrary axis that yields predictable result.

[CodyV1]

I can't illustrate this, but I can try to explain it.
You can rotate (using SU's native rotating tool) components on a specific glue line. Basically so that components are angled at something other than 90, 180, 270, 360 degrees.

[pilou]

hehe this was not implicite!
Now I more understand!

So next version must create the new Plane Glueing when any don't exist!
and maybe also very useful

[Gaieus]

@thomthom said:

Version 1.1.0
Merged into one tool. Use Ctrl to toggle between Superglue and Solvent.

Works like charm!

[thomthom]

@codyv1 said:

I can't illustrate this, but I can try to explain it.
You can rotate (using SU's native rotating tool) components on a specific glue line. Basically so that components are angled at something other than 90, 180, 270, 360 degrees.

Sorry - I'm still not understanding this. "rotate one a glue line"?

[CodyV1]

You basicaly rotate the glue, and every component stuck together with the glue. Like making a group of those components, and then rotating the group.

[thomthom]

@codyv1 said:

You basicaly rotate the glue, and every component stuck together with the glue. Like making a group of those components, and then rotating the group.

Isn't that just selecting the components and using the rotate tool?
I can't get a grip on what this "glue" is.

[CodyV1]

Nevermind

[thomthom]

[honoluludesktop]

Very clever tool. Didn't try it myself, and the illustration looks like it cuts a hole in the face. How about a wall made up of two faces? Don't program much, but can the api provide a way to find all the faces that a component intersects?