Of course, you can. Even though the tool works hand in hand with the bcs, it is
designed to work with any objects, as long as you specify a symmetrical object.
The command to open the UI is DPK_mirrorGeoUI.
No. This program will copy/mirror the positions of the points, not the
points themselves. The tool is designed to aid in modeling Blend Shape target or
BCS dataPoint geometry. For mirroring an object during creational modeling
(when you want the other half of the object to be created), there are several
tools in Maya you can use, e.g. the Mirror Geometry entry in the
Polygons menu (of the Modeling menu set).
No, the plugin does not work with initial states. It always finds the
correspondence of points using a symmetrical object. If you just have the
initial state and no symmetrical object, you can use the DPK_mirrorTool
script to create one. Just duplicate the object and mirror the duplicate from
left to right using the old script. This object can then be used as symmetrical
object.
This means that the object you have specified as symmetrical object isn’t
symmetrical. But it also says that for each left point a corresponding right
point has been found. However, it is not guaranteed that the correspondence is
accurate in all cases. This warning can also occur on symmetrical objects when
your current linear tolerance setting is very low (below 0.00001).
This means that the specified symmetrical object either doesn’t have the same
topology on both sides or that the points aren’t on corresponding positions. At
least one of the points couldn’t be mirrored and has been ignored (i.e. wasn’t
moved). You should undo and redo several times to see whether these points
should have been moved and correct the symmetrical object if possible.
Sure, you can. The actual work is done by the command DPK_mirrorGeo. The
command reference for it can be found in 11.4 DPK_mirrorGeo.