![]() I just watched a video of Curic’s Deep Select plugin for I believe the first time.Curic apparently recognized this need as well and beat me to it. I have wanted to create a tool for changing the axes of a component to preset locations for more than 10 years. The UI / UX is significantly more complex than SketchPlus although the tools share some functionality. I just now watched a video about the Curic axis tool. I am being accused of cloning the Curic Axis tool.You had similar goals for your plugins which is why we arrived independently at a similar design solution. The entire design premise for SketchPlus was to create all of the features as easy-to-use tools with a pleasing user experience and no input boxes. Later, I discovered there are similarities with the curic align plugin but this is purely coincidence because we both took the same approach to focus on “effiiency, high user navigability, aesthetics, and usability”. I remember the day I conceived the idea of the alignment box UX. I agonized for days for how to create an align tool in SketchPlus where all types of alignment could be performed with just one tool rather than several.In fact, the UX for our mirror tool is based on the Artisan active symmetry plane tool…from 2011! The curic UX for mirror is significantly different and more complex than the SketchPlus mirror tool. I just watched your mirror tool youtube video for the first time now. I have been accused of cloning the curic mirror tool.No code has been copied from any developer. All SketchPlus code is 100% written from scratch.You accused me of including ‘almost all of them’ (that’s 25+ free curic tools) in SketchPlus. ![]() The curic tools in question are align, mirror, axes, & deep select.It’s time for some actual facts rather than wild accusations. If another developer accuses me of stealing and insults my integrity as a developer on a public forum, this discussion is not over. I would appreciate it if we could drop it and not discuss this any further. Thanks again for your interest in my tools in one way or another. I apologize for any inconvenience and hope that you can understand my position as I was left with very little recourse and acted out of frustration. In hindsight, I have decided to be the bigger person and release an updated version that removes this message. It was a message to other developers, to say let’s be creative and develop to bring new and novel tools to the community instead of profiting off of an existing body of work from another developer. The pop-up message in the first release of Curic Face Knife was a response to what I initially felt was an injustice. I could not help but take that personally. Not only that but they are being marketed as the “missing tools” for SketchUp as if they never existed previously. I spent a lot of time and energy developing these tools and them for free to the community, only to see almost all of them included in a commercial extension by someone released I once admired. It is not just about another person creating tools that perform the same task as my tools, it is the replicating of the approach and design of the tool’s workflow. This is the same for many other top developers. I took a lot of time to create a new and unique workflow for each tool. This is especially evident in tools like Curic Mirror, Curic Align, and Curic Axis…. This is not an easy task, as it takes a lot of careful planning to develop tools that are both useful and fun to use. The goal is to free the end-user to create without obstruction from input boxes and complex settings. I focus on efficiency and high user navigability, as well as using aesthetic aesthetics, which brings freedom and natural usability. I use a similar architectural approach when designing my extensions. Another architect designing a building on the same street, which looks very similar to mine, would be considered taboo. My main background is as an architect, and in this field, intellectual property is inherent in design. I am not a professionally trained developer, so perhaps my understanding of the rules for copying, versus learning and developing a tool is a bit different than others. Regarding this issue, I have made an announcement on my official Facebook page, which I will post it here again for everyone to know. ![]() ![]() However, I see things have unfortunately gone off-topic. I was initially very happy to see all of the notifications regarding my post and assumed there was an active discussion about the usability of the tool. ![]()
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