Glued imported images

[tomb85]

Hi,

I usuallly import images by simply drag-and-dropping them into my model. Then the image is automatically glued to a face.
When i copy and move the same image somewhere on the same plane, the image is no longer glued onto this plane, and is no longer visible.
Just like the same you get when I do rightclick on the image > unglue.

Is there a way to glue images back to a face, so it is visible agian on the plane? Once an image is unglued, i can't seem to glue it back on a surface.

thx

[TIG]

Unfortunately methods like xxx.glued_to=face are not accessible in the Ruby API for Images - although they are all versions of a 'definition' and gluing-Instances, Groups and Images can all be glued onto a face when they are first made/added [and can all be 'unglued' from the context-menu], BUT only an Instance can be 'glued/unglued' in Ruby code...

[tomb85]

Ok, thanks anyway TIG!

[Wo3Dan]

@tomb85 said:

...When i copy and move the same image somewhere on the same plane, the image is no longer glued onto this plane, and is no longer visible.
Just like the same you get when I do rightclick on the image > unglue.....

After "manipulating" the image it ends up unglued on the other side of the face.

A workaround to copy (instead of multiple imports) the image and have it still glued to the same or any other face is:

• isolate the image plus a small oversized portion of the face that it is glued to.
  So draw a rectangle around it, preferably starting at the image's origin and extending the other side(s) of the image. (you need to be able to select that small face and it's edges later).
• Select little rectangular face plus image, and copy to (on) any other face.
• select (double click) on the small face to get face+edges and delete.
• the remaining image has the same 'glue to' propertie as the original.

You could even save the small face+imageas a (not necessarily 'glue to') component for multiple use later. Both methods are simple and fast.