[Plugin] Superglue
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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...
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Great little plugin!
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!
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@brewsky said:
It would be great if you could add a "glue" option to the context menu(below the standard "unglue" option).
Good idea!
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Though... not quite sure how to work out what face to glue it to...
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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...
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@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? -
@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!
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Wonder what performance that has. ..but I guess it doesn't need to be fast...
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You don't need to iterate every face in the array from:
faces=instance.parent.entities.grep(SketchUp::Face)
The loop canbreakwhen a face with a matchingnormal&&classify_pointmatch 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... -
True that. Will give it a bash. Thanks.
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