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Rich O Brien

If you click your middle mouse button down does it allow you to scroll?

TIG

What are 'the error messages' ?
A BugSplat or something else ?
What is your MAC OS ?

Select its icon and right-click > context-menu > Run as administrator.
A dialog opens, when prompted choose Repair.
This will fix any incorrect permissions etc that can cause unpredictable issue.
Restart SketchUp to see if anything has improved.
Repair will not affect any customization.
Double-clicking

Rich O Brien

If it is crashing with Libfredo installed how are you running Window > Libfredo Settings > Fredo6 Plugins Information for Sketchucation Support command?

Or is it crashing if you double click a .skp to launch SketchUp?

Rich O Brien

@panixia said in SketchyPhysics 3.5.6 (26 January 2015):

@Dave-R said in SketchyPhysics 3.5.6 (26 January 2015):

Sketch Physics hasn't been updated in over ten years

Is that open source? Maybe in that case it can be updated to fit the new ruby/API rules?

We have chatted with Anton about it and it is a huge undertaking.

He is focussing on his career currently. I'll try raising the topic again.

Rich O Brien

Blender would by my suggestion.

Steep learning curve but tons of knowledge out there to learn from.

TIG

@euljoo
Did you check your spam folder ?
Did you check https://sketchucation.com/webshop/my-licences.php ?
This lets you download copies of any license-files you have purchased.
After downloading a file to somewhere safe you can then validate it in the appropriate tool's menu item.

Rich O Brien

I presume you want a block placed at 1219mm intervals with no overlaps. Along with the top row getting offset by half?

If so uncheck Max and uncheck At End on both component rows. That stops blocks overlapping .

Rich O Brien

Did you try toggling off the Place Component at End? For both 'stacks'

TIG

Version 5.0.6 is now available:
https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=SketchUcationTools

It's trapped for a very rare error [only one report to date!] which splatted the tool on loading, when it was checking an extension's version for the update report - if the user's installation of that extension's files is somehow incomplete - perhaps because of the use of su's migrate tool across versions glitch ? [Note: this principally affected just some of Fredo's and perhaps Thomthom's extensions, where Extension-Manager then lists it without a version etc and they were unloaded in the PluginsManager]

TIG

@rlgl

The error is currently a mystery to me.

It's showing an error for a missing file -
C:/Users/dvnj2/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2026/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_FredoSection/FredoSection.plugin

Checking I see that I do not get the same error message - everything works fine.
AND I also see that the .plugin file does exists in my Plugins folder.
If an extension is not loaded [when its version would be readily findable],
then because the version is not immediately got the ExtensionStore in checking your current extensions' versions has to try and get them in other ways.
A version is usually readable from an extension's registration xxx.RB file - even if it's been disabled using our Plugins-Manager.
But a couple of authors - like @fredo6 - don't set the version in that file,
but use a unique hash system to read their settings in from a xxx.plugin text file, kept in each extension's subfolder.
To the best of my knowledge all of Fredo's extensions use this method, as does this one.

I can force the same SketchUcation error as yours, by manually removing the FredoSection.plugin from its subfolder.

There are two cases:

FredoSection is set to be loaded in the PluginsManager - this error is sidestepped because the FredoSection extension is enabled in the Extension-Manager and its version is readable from the its properties. However, the Extension' properties all report as empty, and so no version etc could be read in. In this case the ExtensionStore defaults to thinking it's '0' and ignores its version.
FredoSection is set to be unloaded in the PluginsManager - this error is then thrown because the FredoSection extension is not now enabled in the Extension-Manager and its version is not readable from the its properties AND the .plugin file that would otherwise return the version is also not found. The error prevents the ExtensionStore from completing its version checking. This error could be sidestepped, but them you don't find out there's an issue with your FredoSection setup.

So this suggests to me that your installation of FredoSection extension is incomplete and the ../Fredo6_FredoSection/FredoSection.plugin is missing,
If you were not using the SketchUcation extension at all you would not get an error at startup, but just empty details in the ExtensionManager listing.
How did you install the FredoSection extension ?
If you have somehow copied files/folders from another Plugins folder this might have missed out vital files. Manual copying and the new su 'migration' tools can cause weirdness...

Please try reinstalling the extension and checking that ../Plugins/Fredo6_FredoSection/FredoSection.plugin file now exists, and the SketchUcation extension loads OK.
You can install from its RBZ using the Extension-Manager, download it from our PluginStore.
Alternatively you can close SketchUp, and find the file:
C:/Users/dvnj2/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2026/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_FredoSection.rb!
and rename it as:
C:/Users/dvnj2/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2026/SketchUp/Plugins/Fredo6_FredoSection.rb
i.e. without the ! at the end which was added to disable it.
After a restart this will allow SketchUcation's ExtensionStore to load and you can now use its dialog to reinstall the FredoSection extension, rather than using an RBZ.
See if the FredoSection.plugin file is installed properly and so on, and the the Extension-Manager now reports its proper details like author and version.
To stop even the currently faulty FredoSection file set from partially loading and tripping up the ExtensionStore you can use the Extension-Manager to disable the extension, rather than use the PluginManager.
A very remote possibility - if the .plugin file does indeed exist, but SketchUp can't find it, perhaps it is for some reason unreadable - so check its Security Properties.

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