![]() ![]() (Often this is the case for non-English names.)Īlthough the Mac did not have issues in this regard, SketchUp still had to wait until Ruby caught up to the Unicode world, before it could fix things under MS Windows. Ruby just could not handle path strings that had special characters in the users name. That meant that things would break if the username had unicode characters in it. SketchUp had to use the 1.8 Ruby branch before the 1.9 & 2.0 branches were available. Besides, why should lay people mess around with the program structure of a Program File?!īut why was it ever that way, and what took so long to move the scripts, plugins & extensions into the USER path folders ? This path is only loaded to the $LOAD_PATH array if the folder exists when on the user’s machine when SU starts. On Windows, we also load plugins from a user-independent support directory.Ĭ:\ProgramData\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\SketchUp\PluginsĬ:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\SketchUp\Plugins Plugins on Windows have now been moved outside the SU Installation folder.Ĭ:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\SketchUp\PluginsĬ:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\SketchUp\Plugins The new one doesn’t even show a “Plugins” Folder.īecause it was moved, since SketchUp 2014,… viz: ![]() Some people just go on to other things in life.Īnyway, … things just do not happen automatically. Quite a few old, yet still useful scripts, have been abandoned. ![]() Or they may be a “hobbyist” and not have the knowledge to bring the plugin code up to date, in order to meet the minimum requirements of the Trimble Extension Warehouse. The original plugin author may not even be involved in writing SketchUp plugins anymore. Lastly it also requires a developer to actually set up the extension store page, and pass the EW critical review. Listing on the Trimble Extension Warehouse requires applying to become a EW Developer, and adhering to a Developer Agreement, and packaging extensions in a certain technical way, including instantiating a Ruby SketchupExtension object for the extension. Likely because the original author (and copyright holder,) wrote this old and ancient plugin script, back many years before the SketchUp Ruby API had a SketchupExtension class, and long before the Extension Warehouse was even an idea, much less a reality.ĭoes anyone know why this House Builder Plugin, which could certainly be one of the most widely useful & popular of Plugins for Sketchup, does NOT get listed on the Extensions Warehouse?īecause we live in a free society and we do not force people to join a web service. MAKE IT SIMPLE AND EASY TO USE PLEASE.ītw, why is it not showing up on what appears to be the “simple & easy to use” method which is that Extensions Warehouse website? Does anyone know why this House Builder Plugin, which could certainly be one of the most widely useful & popular of Plugins for Sketchup, does NOT get listed on the Extensions Warehouse?ītw, why is it not showing up on what appears to be the “simple & easy to use” method which is that Extensions Warehouse website? ![]() Like I said at first, this whole process of trying to get House Builder to load into Sketchup is way too geeky and the solutions offered simply don’t work. Besides, why should lay people mess around with the program structure of a Program File?! The new one doesn’t even show a Plugins Folder. On the other approach of copying & pasting the unzipped files directly into the Sketchup Program – The House Builder actually came with a diagram of where to put the files into the (Sketchup 5) files tree, but that tree of files doesn’t look anything like the Sketchup 2015 files. Sketchup then opened up that folder and there was nothing there, it just said No Items Match Your Search. Sketchup then saw that Folder (it has a whole lot of files in it) but did not seem to do anything. Well I tried the option of trying to re-zip the folder (could not find anywhere in Windows to stop it from auto-unzipping) and then adding the rbz extension. You simply place the plugin file(s) in the Plugins directory, restart SU, and rock and roll. You don’t need to install Ruby to run Ruby plugins in SU. Renaming and copying files is something any garden variety computer owner/user should be able to do on his system. It seems to me that you’re setting the geek bar a bit low. Read the following article (which you should probably have already done): Installing Ruby plugins. skp too, if you like–into the SU Plugins directory. Open housebuilder.zip with WinZip or equivalent (realizing you haven’t told us your Preferences > Extensions installer again. Rename housebuilder.zip to housebuilder.rbz and try using the You can install it in either of two ways: Housebuilder is an older plugin, dating from before the extensions installer was added to the Preferences menu. ![]()
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