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All of the previously loaded' error-messages suggest that somehow you have duplicates of those extensions installed in different locations, both of which SketchUp loads from.
Several of those causing errors are by other authors and are from other sources than SCF, and even some su_ shipped-extensions...

How are you installing your extensions ?

If you are copying files from one SketchUp version's Plugins folder into another. then it's a recipe for chaos.

If you download them from our PluginStore as RBZs and then use the Extension Manager to install them, then they automatically install in your default Plugins folder, from which SketchUp loads any extension .RB files it finds at startup. In your case it's
C:/Users/MSonmez/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2026/SketchUp/Plugins

If you use the ExtensionStore's dialog to auto-install them, that works without the need for the RBZ step, but they default to install in the same default Plugins folder.
However, you can opt to have your own personal destination folder, chosen and remembered with the ExtensionStore's Settings > Paths option. It's really only useful for those with a centralized folder used across SketchUp versions - you need to set up this alternative path using Fredo's AdditionalPluginsFolder tool.

An alternative path offered might be the Plugins folder in the ProgramData path, but this is only used for extensions shared between several users on the same computer, unlike your own user's Plugins folder personal to your login: it's typically used by more complex extensions like renderers etc. It does load its .RB files before the default Plugins folder so it could explain the duplication, but why all of your extensions seem to have arrived in there is a very unlikely mystery. It's not normally listed unless some previous installation [like a renderer] has made the Plugins folder for its .RB and subfolder...

If you can check for multiple Plugins folders and their duplicated contents it will help. Try to ensure only one version of each .RB and it's matching subfolder exist in any likely-to-be-loading Plugins folder.

Running this text in the Ruby Console will give you a list of all file-paths that are loaded from - BUT only the default ../AppData../Plugings would be normally listed in the ExtensionStore's Paths, never put extensions into another of these folders, unless you are really sure of what you are doing -
$LOAD_PATH
Please report back...

fredo6

What is the message about the subfolder missing? I don't see it
Which plugins of mine do you have installed?
If you can start Sketchup with LibFredo6, could you invoke the menu Window > LibFredo6 Settings > Fredo6 Plugins Information for Sketchucation Support... and send me the output text which is displayed in the Ruby console.

Thanks

Dave R

I want AI to mow the lawn, shovel the snow, do the laundry and the dishes. Leave the creative stuff to humans.

fredo6

Top level geometry cannot be assigned patterns directly via mouse. Instead, they use the pattern 'Toplevel geometry' in the Special Defaults

fredo6

Is your geometry within a group or component?

TIG

Step by step questions...
Can your IT guy get a cmd script to run at user's login ?
Can your IT guy then make that cmd script copy the license files from an admin-account's folder-structure into an equivalent folder in the user's account - e.g. '../appdata/local/scf licenses' ?
If this happens why can't the user then see the expected license files ?
I'm no cmd script guru. but surely your IT guys have some helpful ideas ??

e.g. If you manually copy over the license files from an admin-account's folder-structure into an equivalent folder in the user's account - e.g. '../appdata/local/scf licenses' - does that then work as expected ? If not, then why not ?

TIG

@ntxdave
The magnifying glass button is the first of the four icons at the right-hand end of the topmost title bar of the forum itself, NOT in the the title bar of the first post in a thread to the left of the 'Reply' button...

TIG

You've already learnt that you don't need to project the shadows of every element forming the building, or every plane that might catch a shadow.
Before you use the tool make a new tag to ultimately be an isolated set of geometry with the rest of the model 'off' - probably making two to reflect the original and modified forms.
then make a group that is assigned the appropriate tag.
Edit it and add simple faced 'box' shapes that follow the main external form of the building [used as a temporary underlay].
Only add in any wall, floor or roof faces etc, that will cast useful shadows.
You can probably ignore window-openings for a study this simple.
Do not include any 'rear' facing elements that won't cast meaningful shadows.
Do not include any wholly internal faces as they won't cast any useful shadows.
It should be relatively straightforward for you to work out which parts are needed - but the algorithm will look at everything.
Every superfluous bit of geometry which might not cast any meaningful shadows should be avoided -
because each one will still be pointlessly considered and processed before finally being ignored -
all of this only bloats the processing time exponentially and can lead to crashes as SketchUp becomes overwhelmed.
Perhaps an uploaded screen shot of the form, or even a simple skp showing what you've done so far, could elicit more useful advice...

TIG

Following on from @fredo6 's comment...
If each user logs in separately then surely a simple cmd script [written by your IT guys] auto-running at their login, could copy the needed license files over into their '../appdata/local/scf licenses' directory. Having this consistent location set up for everyone's folders/files should ease the license reading / validation ? Perhaps a logout cmd script could also run to tidy up and remove the no longer needed files, if thought appropriate ? ...

fredo6

I understad that users have access to my plugins when they start Sketchup.

If so, then the problem is with the licenses.

License files are supposed to be located in the localappdata directory, which depends on the login account.

So, if the students log with their own account, I guess the license files are not found since they are in the localappdata of the admin account.

Currently, the localappdata directory is hardcoded in SCFLicense. So, it would require a modification to enable a custom directory.

Are you on Mac or on Windows?

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