Only result is important!

First, there's no point in opening .rbz files when you download them. Use Install Extension in SketchUp's Extension Manager window to install them. Better yet, download the SketchuCation Extension Store tool from Resources at the top of this page and install it using Install Extension. Then use the Extension Store tool to find and install extensions for you. Doing it that way will help you keep the extensions up to date and any extensions you install with it get saved into a bundle which makes them easier to install on another machine or in a new version when you upgrade.

@box said: Many tools in sketchup will repeat the last action by using a double click. Thanks!

You should contact the author and see if they can help you with this ancient old plugin. From your error message it does look like you installed it into the wrong directory. Maybe it would help if you put it in the right one which should be User/App Data/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/SketchUp/Plugins. You shouldn't be installing extensions into the Program Data directory.

Hi @renderiza, So I downloaded a trial and I'm checking out how CompoScene works. It's actually way more than what I initially asked for, and even better. It might actually make me stay in Sketchup for final rendering rather than moving everything to blender. I'm still considering my options. The challenge I have with the way CompoScene works is that I have a lot of scenes in a file and I'd like to render out (with various layer options) and I could do without the step of creating each layer into individual scenes. I'd like to just go straight to exporting the render layers as PNGs. In my SU projects, I can have anywhere from 5 to 50 scenes that I might want to export as PNGs. Plus, they would all need multiple layer options (line, shadow, clay etc). Any way to do that? Also any way to export a set of selected scenes? These are the limits I am hitting as I dig deeper into the prototyping stages of my interactive graphic novel. I will have thousands of renders to make. Thanks for any and all answers and help! Justin

Sure thing, good luck and stay safe.

Ahoi, as some of you already realized, project Ropefall has closed doors. This means no new licences will be given away. Maintenance support will remain available in the maintenance period (a year after purchase). Thanks for your support so far! Balazs

If you write the model to mxs, then reference that mxs in another skp with all the various scenes, you can use this one-liner to quickly write out an mxs for each scene: Sketchup.active_model.pages.each { |p| Sketchup.active_model.pages.selected_page = p; puts "Exporting #{p.name}"; MX::Util.set_output_property('output.scene_name', p.name, true); MX::Export.export('mxs') } You will want to disable scene transitions and set delay to 0 in window > model info > animation, since it appears ruby does not wait for the transition to complete between scenes. Then, you can use the network render button to set up a batch job for rendering all the mxs files. Other ways are possible as well, since each scene is written as a camera into the mxs -- e.g. you can write one mxs, and use a python script to open it and render out each camera. But the way given above is probably easiest.

@sjs66 said: Yes there is. Just wondering if your still using Xfrog or if anyone else is these days? zombie post, almost 6 years

Can you share the .skp file? It's hard to tell exactly what you've got from your screen shot but most likely it is a situation where the edges of the two faces are very close together but not coincident.

@Maria When you download an extension from the PluginStore, using your browser, there are several possible outcomes, depending on how you have configured your browser's options... The RBZ file that is downloaded when you click the button can be handled by the browser in several ways. For example if RBZ files are incorrectly set up to open with SketchUp, or any other app - like a decompression software, the the download will fail. Of if the browser is correctly set up to save the RBZ file onto your computer, then there are two possible alternatives. It might auto-save it to your Downloads folder, or it might prompt you in a dialog to choose a folder in which to save it... In both of these cases you should now have an RBZ archive on your computer. You now need to install it into SketchUp. In SketchUp use the menu item to open the built-in Extension Manager dialog, then use the [red] button to Install... Find the RBZ file and SketchUp should now install it for you automatically - extracting the files from the archive and copying them into the correct location[s] in your Plugins folder... If you have problems like this, it can be down to incorrect permissions, and these usually result from SketchUp being incorrectly installed... It's possible to Repair the installation [without first uninstalling and starting again]... To do this - login to Windows as your normal user-account. Ensure SketchUp is not running. Find the SketchUp installer's exe file - usually in your Downloads folder. Select this exe file's icon, right-click > context-menu > "Run as administrator" When prompted choose "Repair". When it completes restart SketchUp. This operation should reset SketchUp and your user-account to have the correct permissions. Installing any complex app in any other way will lead to weird and unpredictable problems. So never double-click on an installer's exe file to 'Run' it - even if your user-account has admin powers it is not the same as using 'Run as administrator' as exampled above...

It seems to be fixed now. Yeah! https://roundme.com/tour/567318/view/1842224 [image: VLc0_DEN2.jpg]

You'd probably get a better response by posting within that tool's thread... However, here's my thoughts... An OBJ contains the imported geometry definitions. Often the OBJ file has an associated MTL file [its path/name are set up in OBJ header], this file contains the definitions for the materials that the geometry in the OBJ file will use. Usually the MTL file has the same name as the OBJ file and is kept with it... Also the associated MTL file can contain references to image-files which are to be used in some of its materials as textures [the simplest material-type is just a 'color'], these image-files [JPG, PNG etc] are usually included with the MTL in a subfolder named something like 'Images' - the actual path/name to these images is also included in the MTL file... The OBJ and MTL files are written in plain-text, so you can open them with a text-editor like Notepad++ and read what is being set up...

To preserve the organization of scenes, close and reopen the scenes window before saving and closing SketchUp. This also works if you're having problems with toolbars and trays not holding position.

L i am, thank you for the suggestions and help. However, I figured out my problem. Or should I say remembered. It's been so long since I last used Raylectron that I forgot something important about lighting... ...emitters cannot be grouped with anything. Yep, that's all it was. I am somewhat embarrassed. Thanks again for responding and your help. I will be posting the updated renders of the living room and bedroom in the Gallery.

All SU major point releases (ie. SU2016 / SU2017 / SU2018 / SU2019 / SU2020) run independent from each other and can be installed on the same machine without the one influencing the other. I doubt that any versions of SU, apart from the current release, is available for purchase. You could communicate with SU though, but the cost won't be less than the current version if they were to meet you halfway. Don't go subscription, perpetual licence only - IMHO anyway.

@tig said: If you have just two Plugins loaded in the Manager when SketchUp restarts there will still be just those two Plugins loaded. The Plugins Manager lets you load/disable any Plugins you choose. Because of limitations in the way SketchUp loads Plugins you can't dynamically disable them - they will stay loaded during that session. However, if you disable a Plugin and restart SketchUp, then that disabled Plugin will not load at startup. But of course you can choose to use the Manager to load selected Plugins during a session. The orange button does a 'temporary load' - that is it loads just for that session, and when SketchUp restarts it is disabled once again... You can select multiple Plugins in one go, for loading/disabling/temporarily-loading by clicking on them in the appropriate column in the dialog - holding the +Ctrl key to pick them one-by-one, or holding +Shift key and clicking on the first and the last the selected ones, this is just like any other Windows app... Then you click the appropriate button [RGO] they'll move column and be re-colored to indicate what's just been changed... If you pick some items wrongly you can simply re-click them to remove them from the selected ones before clicking the button. If you've already moved them into another column you can move them back by highlighting them in that column and moving them across in the correct column... Please get to understand how the load/disable/temporarily-load [GRO] buttons work on selected entries in the loaded and disabled columns... Sets are an additional way of remembering your preferred collections of Plugins - for use during your different work-stages etc. Look at using those once you are comfortable with the manual operation... As explained, enabling manually or by 'set' is immediate, but disabling manually or by 'set' will require a SketchUp restart to complete the process. Splendid. I do thank you. Now its clear for me how to deal with the set features.

Actually this is the same question as in the first post. My wish is to have full control on curve points used for distribution of components (not only pipes). Picture is made with lines + pipe plugin (Green elements has to be profiles).This way is not suitable for big number of profiles and more complex curves. In your gif (with stringer plugin) we can not have full control on endings configuration (what I call "end-points curve"). [image: gIw9_Pdrking-.jpg]

Thanks everyone for the replies. I realize the way SketchUp recognizes solids means that adding these walls precludes the volume from being recognized in the SketchUp world as solid volumes, but had hoped there was some workaround here. What I have done is as suggested, modeled 2 separate solid volumes. I'll be talking to the guy doing the energy calculations today. He uses several different programs, as well so maybe there is an answer from his side. I'm also thinking that just because SketchUp see's things this way, doesn't necessarily mean his software will, if I use a single skin separating partition wall with openings indicated. Thanks again, and I'll let you know how this works out.

It sounds to me like pilot error. In order for the extension to be active you need to have a selected section plane. You can also run it from the Context menu when you right click on a section plane. If you go back to the extension's page in the EW, there's a video you can watch that clearly shows how to use it.