Start SketchUp 8 without plugins

jwall04

This is in a school environment where users double-click the shortcut I provide them, if that shortcut can disable plugins before opening SketchUp it'll save them, and me, a lot of trouble.

jeff hammond

temporarily rename or move the plugins folder?

(on mac, you could make a little automator action or service which could do this automatically.. probably something similar on windows?)

[probably not the best solution.. but from a user pov, an easy way to see it happening]

TIG

On a PC you can make a pair of .cmd files to switch off Plugins and switch on Plugins.
By renaming Plugins as Plugins!, and back again...
Along the lines of:
rename "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins" "Plugins!" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google SketchUp 8\SketchUp.exe"
and then again:
rename "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins!" "Plugins" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google SketchUp 8\SketchUp.exe"

The executor will need enough security permissions to rename the folder...

jwall04

I have started on a vbs to move the plugins out of the plugins folder but simply renaming the folder is much easier, thanks for the suggestion.

thomthom

@jwall04 said:

This is in a school environment where users double-click the shortcut I provide them, if that shortcut can disable plugins before opening SketchUp it'll save them, and me, a lot of trouble.

Add /DisableRubyAPI as argument to the link.

TIG

Thanks thomthom - I suspected there was an undocumented/unsupported flag like /DisableRubyAPI but couldn't find it... Do you have a list of these ?

thomthom

No, I don't remember where I got it from either. I just had it on my desktop.

thomthom

Notice how quickly SketchUp starts up without the Ruby API... o_O

TIG

I know of Sketchup.exe -RubyStartup "c:\path\to\My Script.rb" but that's about it

thomthom

@tig said:

I know of Sketchup.exe -RubyStartup "c:\path\to\My Script.rb" but that's about it

Interesting! Does that start the given script in addition or instead of?

TIG

That starts Sketchup, loading [and potentially running, if it contains self-running code] that Ruby before, any others...

jwall04

Thank you thomthom, that's exactly what I was looking for

@thomthom said:

Add /DisableRubyAPI as argument to the link.

Jim

@tig said:

Thanks thomthom - I suspected there was an undocumented/unsupported flag like /DisableRubyAPI but couldn't find it... Do you have a list of these ?

See here:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=454478#p454478