SketchUp Command Line Switches

[Jim]

From this topic, here's a few command-line options for SketchUp.

$ Sketchup.exe [opts] [file.skp]

Where [opts] are:
-DisableRubyAPI -RubyStartup "/path/to/ruby.rb" -template "/path/to/template.skp" -notemplate -page "Scene1" -timing

These may be options, but I haven't been able to verify they work:

-DisableAutoSave -DisableWarnIfReadOnly -thumbnail -thumbprefs

[driven]

cheers Jim,

on a mac, because of the ridiculous Google Folder you need to use, unless you add it to the ~.profile

/Applications/Google\ SketchUp\ 8/Sketchup.app/Contents/MacOS/SketchUp -DisableRubyAPI

anyway, that one works...

EDIT: it seems to work [as in it starts SU], but when you actually click SU, it continues loading, including the Plugins...

john

[Jim]

Oh, that one might use a / (slash) instead of a - (dash)

[Aerilius]

-lang ru
where the language is exactly the name of the localization folder in the resources directory. For example create a new folder of your favorite dialect (pfl) and load it with %(#000000)[-lang pfl]. It seems that eastern asian languages need also a special SketchUp.exe binary.

[driven]

knew I'd seen it before, needs a boolean

%(#BF4080)[cd /
Applications/Google\ SketchUp\ 8/SketchUp.app/Contents/MacOS/SketchUp -DisableRubyAPI YES]
john

[TBoy]

Is it possible to start Sketchup with different location for plugins folder. For example - a thumbdrive or "disk name/MyFavoritePluginsFolder" ?

[TIG]

SketchUp always includes its own Tools folder [and the nested Ruby folders] and your user Plugins folder in it load-path [ $:]
You can include addition plugins folders in the load-path array, and any scripts in there will load as SketchUp starts.

Fredo wrote a clever extension to do this for you.
https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=000_AdditionalPluginFolders

Read its More Info... pages for usage etc...