@elmo swart said: dire straits Money for nothing... Seriously though, howzit bru! Wanneer gaan ons braai?! I used SKALP as well in the past, ran into some issues that made me try the CURIC extension as well, sticking with that one for the time being even though I kinda miss the reverse line projection (dashed lines) of SKALP.

@unknownuser said: I cannot open the extension manager in any version of SKETCHUP. THE SCREEN IS BLANK AND THE INSTALLED EXTENSIONS DO NOT APPEAR NOR CAN I TRY TO OPEN OTHERS. My windows is 10 - pro 2004. On another computer the same version of sketchup opens and win 10 opens What do I need to update? There is no "pro 2004" - do you mean another version ? Your user-profile says v2018 ?? When you installed SketchUp you might have installed it incorrectly - this can lead to permission issues etc. You do not need to re-install it, but you can do a 'Repair'. Here are the steps... Whilst logged into Windows as your normal user-account, ensure that SketchUp is closed. Find its installer's exe file - usually in your Downloads folder. Select that exe file's icon and right-click > context-menu > "Run as administrator" When prompted choose "Repair". When it completes start SketchUp and see it that has improved things... Installing any complex application on Windows in any other way will cause unpredictable issues, usually involving permissions. Never double-click the installer to 'Run' it, even if your user-account has admin-powers it is not the same as running it as I have outlined. *Não há "pro 2004" - você quer dizer outra versão? Seu perfil de usuário diz v2018 ?? Quando você instalou o SketchUp, você pode tê-lo instalado incorretamente - isso pode levar a problemas de permissão etc. Você não precisa reinstalá-lo, mas você pode fazer um 'Reparar'. Aqui estão os passos ... Enquanto estiver conectado ao Windows como sua conta de usuário normal, certifique-se de que o SketchUp esteja fechado. Encontre o arquivo exe do instalador - geralmente na pasta Downloads. Selecione o ícone desse arquivo exe e clique com o botão direito do mouse> menu de contexto> "Executar como administrador" Quando solicitado, escolha "Reparar". Quando terminar, inicie o SketchUp e veja se ele melhorou as coisas ... Instalar qualquer aplicativo complexo no Windows de qualquer outra forma causará problemas imprevisíveis, geralmente envolvendo permissões. Nunca clique duas vezes no instalador para 'Executar', mesmo se sua conta de usuário tiver poderes de administrador, não é o mesmo que executá-lo conforme eu descrevi.*

Layers Organizer (paid extension) is based on Layers Panel (free extension). Thomas is still credited but it is no longer his extension. They took his base extension (which worked well, but had some bugs and was no longer being developed), with his permission, and developed it further. It has become an essential part of my SketchUp use. And thanks for the heads up, I have not noticed the effect you speak of as I have not modeled much in the last couple of months.

New version https://youtu.be/v8nyn8V0xdA

For some reason the top_LibFredo6 is listed as a separate extension and is unsigned, with no version of user info. This generates the message if the Loading Policy is not Unrestricted... I'm not sure why this top_LibFredo6 entry appears - can it not be avoided ? I don't see its entry in the extensions list when using older versions of LibFredo ?? Here are current entry PNGs... [image: LibFredo-signed.PNG] [image: Top_unsigned.PNG]

Still working fine. Thanks again for everyone's help.

That's kind of odd but as long as it works... What happens if you send to LayOut? Do those dimensions look right in LO?

Tim I have a three scaling option Toolbar. Opt #1, Scale-up by 25%, scale down by 80%. Notice the upscale and the downscale are different. As an example, if you scale up an object that is 100 inches long by 25%, your object is now 125 inches long. Now to get back to the exact size, you need to scale down by only 80% of the new size of the model. However, to scale up by 100% you only need to scale up by 2. And to recover your old size scale down by 50% or .5000 Opt #2 up by 100% down by 50%, to return to the original size. Opt #3 up by 1.001% down by .999000999. Now, this is exact enough for what I do, however after a while, you will notice the inaccuracies of the up and downscaling. trans=Geom::Transformation.scaling(center, 1.001) trans=Geom::Transformation.scaling(center, 0.999000999) When plugins where much easier to make, I could modify the plugins for my use. However, I can't or won't give out the plugins as they have been modified, and the original are not my creation. I just wanted to show you that your perception of scaling won't work. "A simple way around this would be a one-button plug-in that scales the model x1000 and centres it in the viewport. Then, after doing the modelling, clicking the button would scale the model by 0.001 and centre it in the viewport."

@MOTARD1980 To fix the ERROR_A0C you need to update your SketchUcationTools and reset your licensing cache. Update the SketchUcationTools: https://sketchucation.com/resources/plugin-store-download You can refer to the following instructions for installing plugins, in case you need help: https://antonsynytsia.github.io/manuals/ClothWorks/installation.pdf Reset your cache by following the steps in ClothWorks licensing manual, Known Issue section, #3 if using Mac OS X or #4 if using Windows: https://antonsynytsia.github.io/manuals/ClothWorks/license.pdf Thanks, Anton

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...