This gave me fits for a while. I couldn't figure out why I could get some components to glue and cut and not others. It seemed that when component axis was at a face, the cut would work, but when I tried to move the axis to the middle of the component, it wouldn't.

Then I read Thom Thom's post:
It's all about having a closed loop of edges on the red & green axes of the component. The blue axis must be pointing upwards.

That is it in a nutshell. To get a component to cut through the face it's glued to, there must be a continuous edge around the component at the component's axis, which is where it will glue itself to the face.

Thanks TT.

Check out the attachment.

Component glue cut.skp

Gaius, you're a Godsend! I have struggled with this for years actually, but haven't persisted because until now, I haven't really needed the facility.

Thanks a million! 😄

I think this is a fab idea, i too ave a trackpad which is gathering dust from lack of use ut it sure would be great to use for SU, i too would like to back this idea and see some sort of plugin

If you're just trying to scale an object within the model, like a tower, you use the scale tool. S is the shortcut key.

And if your inserting something from the 3d warehouse, its not an import really. I was imagining you were importing an autocad dwg file or something.

So just use the scale tool.

For paper layouts, SketchUp pro comes with a page layout utility called "layout" which does a good job of this. You might try the free pro trial once you get more familiar with the software.

I hear you with PlusSpec, we are working on it bigstick,we will get there, hopefully sooner Tehran than later. I was hoping that Ruby 2.0 would help but unfortunately not.

Looks good so far. I did notice a few things though.

There are a few extra lines lying around. 2 inside the main component, then 1 inside the board component. Maybe more I didn't see, but those stuck out at me.

When I scale to me them longer, they jump and resize incorrectly. If its on typical span, then they shrink down to really small.

Good luck, they look great!

Chris

Thanks for the responses! Doesn't look the easiest of things to do though. I do think that there is a lot of demand for this sort of thing however.

Scott is quite right in that for something like tiles, a texture would be better for performance, but for things like panels, where the joints and setting-out are critical, you do need a component like this.

Also single linear arrays with the same property. Stuff like copings, kerbs, ridge tiles and that sort of thing.

@bigstick said:

I have just updated to the latest OSX 10.5.6 and yup, the graphics problems are still in evidence.

heard this too, but for ATI Radeons...

Norbert

I didnt get it either, you might just have been unlucky bruce.