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Hey Thomthom, I was just playing with VertexTools, when I thought of two possible improvements; actually one workflow improvement and one major (and possibly impossible) re-design. With SketchUp's native Move-Tool, you can translate an object in two different ways:.
click (object is attached to the curser), move it somewhere else, click again to release it. click-and-drag to somewhere else and release mouse button to release object Right now thats not possible with VertexTools. And because we all love continuity, it would be a tremendous joy to have the plugin behave the same way.
Use the VertexTools-Icon as a Toggle Button while VertexTools is active, it will intercept all the keyboard shortcuts for Move, Rotate and Scale. Thus it actually feels like using native SketchUp tools, only with the enhancement of soft selection. In theory it wouldn't even make a difference, once the soft selection is set to zero.
Plot-paris wrote:Use the VertexTools-Icon as a Toggle Button while VertexTools is active, it will intercept all the keyboard shortcuts for Move, Rotate and Scale. Thus it actually feels like using native SketchUp tools, only with the enhancement of soft selection. In theory it wouldn't even make a difference, once the soft selection is set to zero.
I'm not sure how you are expecting that would work where it differs from what it does now.? Once you jump into vertex mode and you have assigned the keyboard shortcuts then you stay in Vertex Tools until you exit the tool. Can you elaborate on how you'd like it to work? Ah yes, I didn't phrase it clearly enough: In SketchUp I have the following keyboard shortcuts: Q = Select W = Move E = Rotate R = Scale The VertexTools Plugin has a Select, Move, Rotate and Scale tool of its own. But when I make a soft selection and then hit lets say 'E' for the Rotate Tool, I will activate SketchUp's Rotate Tool, hence exiting the plugin. Instead I would like the plugin to intercept this keyboard shortcut, that usually activates SketchUp's Rotate Tool, and enable VertexTools' own Rotate Tool instead. Only after I exit / toogle off VertexTools, the letter 'E' will bring me to SketchUp's Rotate tool.
So I guess what I want, is to completely replace all of SketchUp's manipulation tools with the new ones as long as the 'Smooth Selection Mode' is active. So from a user's point of view activating VertexTools is similar to activating 'Show Hidden Geometry'.
It affects the degree of control you have over the geometry, but you do not have to use a new set of tools. Of course I am more than uncertain, that this is possible at all in SketchUp (intercepting shortcuts). But it would be such an awesomely integrated experience.