[Plugin] Mirror

patchso

TIG,

Thank you very much for posting this extension. Incredibly useful!

Best Wishes
Patrick.

Dave R

@pjb said:

Great tool, use it every day. Can't wait for the 2014 version.

Why are you waiting? It is already SU2014 compliant and it has been since December. See this.

Krisidious

Yes, TIG has been diligently updating all his stuff. Thanks TIG!

PJB

@dave r said:

@pjb said:

Great tool, use it every day. Can't wait for the 2014 version.

Why are you waiting? It is already SU2014 compliant and it has been since December. See this.

I could not find it in extension warehouse, so now i used a copy from SU2013 and put it in the plugin folder from SU2014. It works! thank you

TIG

NONE of my Plugins are in the EWH !
They are ALL in the SketchUcation PluginStore.
They should all be compliant with v2014.
You should NEVER copy ANY plugins across into v2014 from older installation of SketchUp. unless you cannot get a current version.
Most authors have updated their Plugins to be compatible with v2014, so you need to install the latest version.

Krisidious

You should use the Plugin Store and or the SketchUcation Tools that will search and install plugins for you. Many authors here in the forums are not on the EWH.

jiminy-billy-bob

@tig said:

NONE of my Plugins are in the EWH !

Why not?

Krisidious

Cuz he's SCF O-G Baby!

Rich O Brien

Fo' shizzle my Krizzle. It's the big T.I double gizzle.

Krisidious

lol

TIG

A "bit of a falling out" in the pre-EWH days... while SCF PluginStore was already being setup...
A loooooooooooong story...
I might forgive them one day

TIG

Here's an updated v4.2, in the PluginStore http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=Mirror
I have adjusted the description in the tool's page to explicitly say it's PC & MAC compatible, for all SketchUp versions ! Some users were misunderstanding and assuming it was PC only !
I have also adjusted the script so that now it only installs the additional toggleWindows script [now loaded from .txt] and Win32API.so if the computer is a PC AND the SketchUp version is old [<v2014] - this workaround was introduced to sidestep rare Outliner crash issues, in older SketchUp versions on PCs. This is not needed for newer SketchUp versions, or on any MACs at all - so now if the files were previously installed they are now deleted to keep things tidy.

Rich O Brien

Mucho gracias

kaas

Great plugin. Thanks for the update. I use it quite often. Quite strange this function has never been added to the native SU tools.

josephkim626

Probably this is a single plugin I use most often.

On that note TIG, I have a small request to make. Can you change or allow us to change the settings to have the newly generated object/geometry to be selected after the mirror command?

TIG

@josephkim626 said:

Probably this is a single plugin I use most often.

On that note TIG, I have a small request to make. Can you change or allow us to change the settings to have the newly generated object/geometry to be selected after the mirror command?
I'm not changing the established selection staying with the retained original.
BUT it's quite easy for you to adjust your own RB file yourself.
Use Notepad/Notepad++ [PC] or TextWrangler[MAC] to edit it - NEVER use a Wordprocessor with Ruby files.
The existing code at line #392 needs a new line of code adding - just before the 'commit_operation' -

 @ss.clear; nents.each{|e|@ss.add(e) if e.valid?}

Now the selection always passes to the copy, whether or not you have chosen to keep the originals.

seasdes

Will this plugin work with SU2015?

Dave R

It works fine with SU2015. Do you have some reason to think it wouldn't?

seasdes

Thanks for your reply. The reason that I ask is that SU 2015 is not listed in the Sketchucation store.

TIG

@seasdes said:

Thanks for your reply. The reason that I ask is that SU 2015 is not listed in the Sketchucation store.
Currently the choices offered for 'compatibility', to authors when they are setting up their PluginStore entries are <=v8, v2013 and v2014.
If there were a v2015 it'd be used.
I've PM'd Gábor about adding that choice - OR changing to ">=v2014".

The good news is, if a Plugin is compatible with v2014, then it is almost certainly going to be compatible with v2015.
The big changes in coding came at v8/v2013 and then the biggy at v2014, as that used a newer version of Ruby which handles a few things slightly differently, and is less forgiving of sloppy syntax etc, so there were potential issues stepping up versions.
However, most authors updated their Plugins to suit the new Ruby when v2014 came along around a year ago.
The main outstanding incompatibility was with Dider Bur's tools - but with his permission I have recently finished updating those to be compatible with the newer SketchUps - now available in the PluginStore.
A v2014 compatible tool is almost certainly going to work in v2015, but it might have some issues when used in v2013 or even more likely <=v8, particularly if it now relies on some of the new features only available in the newer Ruby version etc, and there the author has included no workarounds for the earlier versions.***
There are a few new methods now available in v2015, but that is more likely to mean that a v2015 based tool will not work [or be restricted] in earlier versions, which lack that new functionality.

***For example the SCF PluginStore toolset itself makes use of several of the new features available in the newer Ruby [v2014/v2015], but it is written to find the version of SketchUp running it, and where needed it runs alternative code - this may be slower, more clunky etc, but at least the user still gets most of the toolset's functionality, even when they have an old SketchUp version...