Flatterly plugin and sketchup 8 help please

mckinnell · 27 Oct 2010, 14:11

Hello to all,

       Simple question, why after following the guidline for locating said plugin within plugin folder, both the flatterly file and seperate .rb, it will NOT work no matter what i do.

       After looking over the site this plugin is taken from for a FAQ or similar, and finding nothing at all, i turn to all out their who hopefully, can help me to get this sorted............regards and thanks.


                           Tom......... :smile:

TIG · 27 Oct 2010, 15:26

I quote from the 'flattery' site http://www.pumpkinpirate.info/flattery/
Installation
To install Flattery, simply copy the file "flattery.rb" and the folder "flattery" into the SketchUp plugins folder.
On Windows, this folder is usually C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 7\Plugins.
On Macs the folder is usually /Library/Application Support/Google/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/plugins.
Once the files are copied, start SketchUp.
You should see the Flattery toolbar.
To check where your version of Sketchup is actually installed open
Menu > Window > Ruby Console
and type/copy+paste this
Sketchup.find_support_file("Plugins")
Typically you substitute '8' for '7' for a newer version of Sketchup.
'Flattery' is an Extension and needs switching on in
Menu > Window > Preferences > Extensions > Flattery
If the 'Flattery' toolbar is still not showing check
Menu > View > Toolbars > Flattery
is ticked...

mckinnell · 27 Oct 2010, 15:44

TIG,

   Cheers and thanks for a swift reply; will take a look later on this evening and, hope, all will work out fine........Regards to you and yours...............

                            Tom......... :smile:

tfdesign · 3 Nov 2010, 11:30

To be honest, I am finding this plug-in extremely difficult as well as baffling to use. It doesn't seem to behave in the way the instruction suggest- and they are not the best instructions either, especially as you can't even see the cursor on the animated gif's.

tfdesign · 3 Nov 2010, 11:33

Hmm- I think I've got it. Still baffling though!

sketchyarchitect · 14 May 2011, 05:16

Hi I am having the same problem. the plugin appears ticked in the system preferences (window tab) but it is not on the toolbars option (view tab), I tried changing my sketchup folder name from 8 to 7 but was not allowed. how'd you get yours to work?

kind regards,

mckinnell · 14 May 2011, 06:36

Hi all, well, i finaly got it to work, just re installed my O/S,(win xp pro sp3), and it loaded in first time; must have been an overall system O/S problem, and i got a clean system by doing this as well ..........

                   Cheeers all.

                      Tom...........

tvor · 20 Nov 2012, 03:16

@mckinnell said:

Hi all, well, i finaly got it to work, just re installed my O/S,(win xp pro sp3), and it loaded in first time; must have been an overall system O/S problem, and i got a clean system by doing this as well ..........
                   Cheeers all.

                      Tom...........

Oh surely not! I have Win7 and SU8 pro, hope you not suggesting to re-install OS every time some plugin will not show it's menu

I'm experiencing same issue as "sketchyarchitect" - plugin menu will not show

Dave R · 20 Nov 2012, 10:23

Pavel, is your problem only that the Plugins menu doesn't show? If that is the case, go to Preferences>Extensions and tick the boxes you find there. Then click on OK.

sdismukes · 21 Apr 2015, 01:18

Thank you so much! This was really helpful—I hadn't been able to figure out how to get this extension installed.

@tig said:

I quote from the 'flattery' site http://www.pumpkinpirate.info/flattery/
Installation
To install Flattery, simply copy the file "flattery.rb" and the folder "flattery" into the SketchUp plugins folder.
On Windows, this folder is usually C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 7\Plugins.
On Macs the folder is usually /Library/Application Support/Google/Google SketchUp 7/SketchUp/plugins.
Once the files are copied, start SketchUp.
You should see the Flattery toolbar.
To check where your version of Sketchup is actually installed open
Menu > Window > Ruby Console
and type/copy+paste this
Sketchup.find_support_file("Plugins")
Typically you substitute '8' for '7' for a newer version of Sketchup.
'Flattery' is an Extension and needs switching on in
Menu > Window > Preferences > Extensions > Flattery
If the 'Flattery' toolbar is still not showing check
Menu > View > Toolbars > Flattery
is ticked...

TIG · 21 Apr 2015, 14:21

@sdismukes said:

Thank you so much! This was really helpful—I hadn't been able to figure out how to get this extension installed.
I see you are on MAC with v2015.
This thread is somewhat old.
I recommend you get the latest version of "Flattery" from the SCF PluginStore...
http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=Flattery
It has been updated to work with >= v2014.
Auto-Install it into your Plugins folder using SketchUp > Preferences > Extensions > Install... button
Check that its Extension is ticked in the Preferences, then check that its Toolbar is active etc...

Lizartin · 17 Mar 2016, 15:13

Tried to add the Flattery extension in Sketchup and it isn't showing up...can't find it. Any suggestions?

Dave R · 18 Mar 2016, 02:02

@lizartin said:

Tried to add the Flattery extension in Sketchup and it isn't showing up...can't find it. Any suggestions?

Could you explain what you've done? Did you get it from the Sketchucation Plugin Store? Did you use the Plugin Store tool? If not, what did you do after you downloaded it?

Lizartin · 18 Mar 2016, 12:40

I actually figured it out finally....only took me 2 days! Thanks!

TIG · 18 Mar 2016, 18:03

@lizartin said:

I actually figured it out finally....only took me 2 days! Thanks!
Explaining what you actually did to avoid ignominy might have helped other users who might be similarly challenged...