If I had a cube like object with 6 main faces:
and I added some detail to one side:
How can I copy what's on that one face to the 5 other faces? I know I can mirror to have a copy on the opposite side, but what about the other 4 faces?
While taking screenshots for the question, I managed to figure out how to make it work for uniform/regular shapes. I'm still interested anyone who has an answer for how to do this when the faces are not in regular locations.
This method only works for objects derived from uniform/regular shapes:
First select all vertices you want copied:
Then Shift+D to duplicate, P -> Separate by selection to separate new that part.
Go back into object mode, select the new part and rotate 90 degrees (if its a cube) to the face you want it on.
Duplicate rotate the new object to other positions you want it on.
Select the original object, go into edit mode and delete the faces that are now occupied by the new objects
Back in object mode, select everything and press Ctrl+J to join them back into one object.
Now press A to select all, W -> Remove Doubles to remove the duplicated vertices and join new faces back together with the original object
And you are done!
