add a native mirror tool for mirroring along point/axis/plane to the transformation tools of the edit toolbar.

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Personally I like the stretch tool way of mirroring: I find it really intuative to start dragging a node and type in “-1”. (Tip: If you hold [ctrl] while starting to stretch, it will flip about the centre of the selection.) The only down side is that you have to “copy”/“paste in place” to have a du…

For many years, there has been an Extension that does this SketchUp Plugins | PluginStore | SketchUcation

I know but core transformation tools as a mirroring should be avail as a native tool of SU.

MANY things aren’t built-in… Why choose just one omission ? I can think of lots, but then we start getting an AutoCAD or Word app, which we mainly agree is not what we want…

Hi sketch3D_de, hi folks. Click in sequence on the scene tabs of this SU file for ideas. Jean Mirroring_relative_to_a_plane.skp (42.5 KB)

sketch3d_de: add a native mirror tool for mirroring along point/axis/plane to the transformation tools of the edit toolbar Right clicking on an axis enables you to adjust the drawing axes numericable. Or by using ‘Axes’ icon → “Move or reorient the drawing axes.” Thus enabling to creating th…

‘ease of us’ is the key asset of SketchUp. The “less simple” workarounds described above as well as the existence of the plugin and also the recent Skill Builder video concerning mirroring seems to show a need for the feature requested. Every application targeted to Computer Aided Design should in…

I agree that ease of use is what SketcUp is really about. However I don’t know if I would consider mirror a core transform concept. It’s just a specific case of scaling. In programs where you can’t type in exact scale factors and scale doesn’t snap to -1 a separate tool is very much needed but when …

[image] eneroth3: …I don’t know if I would consider mirror a core transform concept. It’s just a specific case of scaling. mirroring (flipping around a point/axis/plane) is scaling (changing geometric dimensions keeping the orientation)? huh

Mirroring is just scaling by -1. It is not a different concept. Also I don’t know what you mean by scaling keeps orientations. When scaling a vector that isn’t orthogonal to the scale axis its direction changes. If you scale by a factor less than 0 all vectors parallel with the scale axis will also …

RfE: native Mirror Tool

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SketchUp3D_de March 1, 2023, 6:12pm 19

done… only 7 years later.

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RfE: native Mirror Tool

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