.rb vs .rbz
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Howdy,
I'm updating to SU8 and was wondering why i can't load any of my .rb ? It allows me to load .rbz only, which i have none of. I've searched a bit and not found anything, but i barely use sketchup so i probably am missing something here. It appears people are updating there ruby scripts to work in SU8 but none really have the .rbz extension. Is this just because i have to update to pro?
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.rbz is a .rb file that is zipped and the .zip extension is changed to .rbz
this allows you to install .rbz files from the preferences panel
to install .rb files you need to place those in your plugins folder manually
.rbz works in both the Free and Pro version of SketchUp
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If you prefer the RBZ way, you can always right click on an RB file and send it to a ZIP file then rename the ZIP extension to RBZ and you can use the preferences installing way. Similarly, if you have a ZIP'ed plugin already, just rename the extension.
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I guess this is a more specific question for thomthom then as i am unable to specifically load one of his rubyscripts.
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As explained the lone RB/RBS files are effectively unchanged by the newer version, but more complex toolsets come in ZIP archives that need extracting properly into the Plugins folder keeping subfolder structures intact - this has been the source of many user misunderstandings and errors. Recent changes to SketchUp v8 have introduced a special RBZ archive file format - basically it's a ZIP archive with a renamed file-type extension - that SketchUp recognizes and auto-installs when you click on the appropriate button...
Even better than that... thomthom has made a 'Simple Plugins Installer' that works in these more recent versions of SketchUp v8.
You can download it from the 'Plugins Index' here.
Once you have that installed - and as it's an RBZ archive you can easily installed it from the Preferences > Extensions button +restart - it can then be used from its new Plugins menu submenu...
It allows you to browse to and auto-install/load tools/extensions from RBZ & ZIP archives AND also install individual tool's from RB & RBS files: auto-extracting them as necessary and placing them and any subfolders of files etc correctly into your Plugins folder[ without you worrying that you might have mis-installed something or have chosen the wrong folder etc...EDIT: PS:
The issue with the TT Lib seems that you have not extracted/insatlled it properly.
I suspect that the subfolder+file that is needed to be directly inside Plugins are actually inside another subfolder of that same name, made when you unzipped things...
Move things out of this containing folder into Plugins, remembering to keep all of the Lib sub-subfolder's files intact within it... OR much more safely why not remove the whole lot and restart - using the archive itself - with the 'Simple Installer' as explained above
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