Start SketchUp 8 without plugins

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