[Plugin Library] LibFredo6 - v15.4a - 13 May 25

loujoe4 · 25 Jan 2013, 20:20

I've tried to get this to work for a few days now and I can't figure it out. I've removed the libfredo6 v34 from my plugins folder and added v47. Sketchup keeps giving me this error: 'Module RoundCorner requires LibFredo6 version greater than 37. Current version is 34'. I've even uninstalled sketch up, deleted my plugins folder & reinstalled a clean version. Not sure whats wrong here. Any ideas? Thanks. -Joe

Juuuust figured this out - for some reason my new OS was hiding my user library folder. Sketchup reads both the user and the HD plugin folders but it seems to favor the user folder when there is a duplicate file. I ended up consolidating into one plugin folder on my HD and now all my magnificent Fredos work perfectly.

Hope this helps someone making the same silly mistake.

-Joe

JFought · 31 Jan 2013, 16:16

Having trouble installing this. Says I have files in wrong place. followed example in the instructions or so I thought.

Dave R · 31 Jan 2013, 17:10

So you might want to hold off installing anymore plugins until you get this sorted out. Are you using Windows 7? If so, the most likely issue is a lack of sufficient privileges to that folder. Open the Plugin folder's properties and under Security, change the permissions you you have full read and right permissions. Then reinstall the plugin files making sure you maintain the file structure as shipped in the ZIP file. Restart SketchUp and we'll go from there.

shawnj · 6 Feb 2013, 17:28

all i get when trying to install is error
any hints

TIG · 6 Feb 2013, 18:17

@shawnj said:

all i get when trying to install is error
any hints
Yes... Read the last ten or twenty posts...
These kinds of errors are almost always because the OP has not installed the files/subfolders correctly, although it is quite clearly explained on the tool's download page... Check the files'/subfolders' "footprint" are as illustrated...
OR alternatively you simply can't add them to the 'plugins' folder because they haven't got sufficient permissions to add files to that folder - if so fix the permissions and retry...
If you do get 'error-messages' then it's pointless keeping them to yourself when asking for help [actually worse than useless because it annoys the very people who might be able to help you otherwise], the error-messages very reason for being is to pass on information, so that someone may have some clues about what's wrong... many error messages are so obvious that we look at them and say, 'do this to fix it...'; however, in this case even without the messages I'd bet money on it being one or both of the above causes

shawnj · 8 Feb 2013, 16:09

great intsalled properly (after i did it wrong) and working fine

Elensark · 13 Feb 2013, 19:53

until today all works fine.. but today cant' start SKP 8 ver. Crashes on startup. trying to off all plugins manualy (changing files name) and after each changing trying to start SKP. and crashes until i changing LibFredo6.rb to LibFredo6.rb1.. and then skp starts fine.

TIG · 14 Feb 2013, 09:16

@unknownuser said:

until today all works fine.. but today cant' start SKP 8 ver. Crashes on startup. trying to off all plugins manualy (changing files name) and after each changing trying to start SKP. and crashes until i changing LibFredo6.rb to LibFredo6.rb1.. and then skp starts fine.
Had you recently added another tool?
That could be clashing with this - which is stable in its own right ??

Elensark · 14 Feb 2013, 18:22

@tig said:

@elensark said:

until today all works fine.. but today cant' start SKP 8 ver. Crashes on startup. trying to off all plugins manualy (changing files name) and after each changing trying to start SKP. and crashes until i changing LibFredo6.rb to LibFredo6.rb1.. and then skp starts fine.
Had you recently added another tool?
That could be clashing with this - which is stable in its own right ??

didnt add anything...not install or something (but windows had updated self)
yesterday worked with default skp. without any plugins.
hm interesting but today after renaming back libfrerdo, skp start's fine,

RaySteve · 25 Feb 2013, 11:41

thank you. very much appreciated

Ralphxyz · 27 Feb 2013, 17:58

Lots of problems extracting from the .zip plus Adobe cannot open the documentation.

I finally got the extraction but Adobe is still Not Responding.

Windows 8 x64

Ralph

Dave R · 27 Feb 2013, 18:04

Ralph, what are you using for your ZIP extraction tool? The thing that came with Windows? If so, download and install 7zip and use that instead. It'll respect and maintain the file structure in the ZIP file when you extract the files to the Plugins folder.

what happens when you try to open the PDF documentation? Do you get any error messages?

TIG · 27 Feb 2013, 20:13

@Ralphxyz

Alternatively... you have v8... so get Thomthom's SimplePluginsInstaller tool [from the SCF Plugins Index] - needs v8M2+... install that from its RBZ and then you'll get a new Plugins menu tool that lets you auto-install any ZIP/RBZ/RB/RBS archibes/files without such issues - unless of course you have other problems with security=permission on the Plugins folder [should be 'FULL' - so check and fix those if needed]...

emage · 4 Mar 2013, 09:04

@unknownuser said:

@tig said:

@unknownuser said:

until today all works fine.. but today cant' start SKP 8 ver. Crashes on startup. trying to off all plugins manualy (changing files name) and after each changing trying to start SKP. and crashes until i changing LibFredo6.rb to LibFredo6.rb1.. and then skp starts fine.
Had you recently added another tool?
That could be clashing with this - which is stable in its own right ??

didnt add anything...not install or something (but windows had updated self)
yesterday worked with default skp. without any plugins.
hm interesting but today after renaming back libfrerdo, skp start's fine,

Elensark, how have you been able to solve this problem?
today my windows updated itself, and now sketchup crashes on startup.
removing plugins one by one showed that only removing LibFredo will enable sketchup to run.

nursill · 4 Mar 2013, 13:01

i have this crashing problem too( today

sket · 12 Mar 2013, 12:43

Same here. I reinstalled Sketchup, and then started adding plugins one by one. I've even downloaded the latest versions of some plugins that i didn't update before thinking it may solve the problem.

It is definitely a problem with Fredo6 plugins

Dave R · 12 Mar 2013, 13:04

If it was a problem with Fredo6 plugins as you assert, everyone who uses them would be having the same problems. I use them on several machines, both PC and Mac and don't have issues with crashes.

Do you get the crashing with only Fredo6 plugins installed?

What operating system? Do you get a Bug Splat? What exactly are you trying to do when the "crash" occurs? What is the geometry you're trying to use the tool on? How big? Post an example SKP file that crashes when you run the tool.

Just saying it crashes without supplying useful information is a worthless report.

sket · 12 Mar 2013, 13:55

I appologize Dave R, you are right...

I'm using Win7 and SUPro8, and i think more people will be experiencing this problem, because untill today i had no problems with any Fredo6 plugins at all. But today when i wanted to open the file i was working on yesterday, it crashed. I tried again and again with same results. Bug Splat pop-up everytime.

I tried to copy the file to a different location - it crashed. Renameing it - it crashed. Then i even tried to open the .skb file but got the same result. I then tied a new, blank file but it too crashed on startup.

Next step was to reinstall Sketchup. It didn't help. So finally i removed SU and all plugins. Reinstalled SU again and started installing plugins. After each plugin was installed i started Sketchup just to test it. Vray and Artisan worked fine.

Then i installed RoundCorner 2.3a. Started SU, saw the RoundCorner toolbar but got a notification about the library missing. Installing LibFredo6 4.7a was the next step. I didn't start SU immmediately, but installed the BezierSpline 1.4f. Ran Sketchup and it crashed.

I removed and installed Fredo6's plugins back and forth trying to figure out which was the one actually causing the problem. In the end it was this one.

I don't know why it started causing problems today, but i sure hope a fix is found soon.

p.s. If it's of any help, i just remembered that the check-for-update pop-up for Fredo6 plugins was giving me errors since a while back. It couldn't connect to the database or something. I didn't pay much attention since i checked for new versions on the forum from time to time and the the older versions of some plugins (i updated today) worked fine so i wasn't in a rush to update.

Dave R · 12 Mar 2013, 14:45

@unknownuser said:

I'm using Win7 and SUPro8, and i think more people will be experiencing this problem, because untill today i had no problems with any Fredo6 plugins at all.

Why don't you add your operating system and SU version to your profile?

So from your statement, you think more people will be having this problem since you are?

I gather that you haven't done as I asked before and tried with only Fredo6 plugins installed. I suspect it isn't Fredo6 but rather the Vray plugin that is causing the problem you have. At least humor me and try it without Vray installed

thomthom · 12 Mar 2013, 15:11

VfSU is known to be potentially unstable.