[Plugin] ExtrudeTools - Full Set

TIG · 6 Oct 2013, 09:52

How did you get the toolset?
If you have tried to install this manually you may have files in the wrong places, remove them and do it properly...
Download it from the SketchUcation PluginStore as RBZ, then install the archive's contents using v8's Preferences > Extensions > Install... button.
If you don't have that button then upgrade to the latest version of v8, early versions are missing the auto-installer feature.
Everything should now be auto-installed correctly, using the correct subfolders etc.
Restart SketchUp to ensure everything loads OK.
Now activate the tool's Extension if needed and also its Toolbar...
Look for its menu entry too...

If it's still not working perhaps you have limited permission to add files to your Plugins folder and that is messing things up...
To fix this...
As an administrator [if you are not one already give yourself this capability in the Users Control Panel]
In Windows Explorer find the Plugins folder.
Select its icon.
Right-click > Context-menu.
Properties.
Security.
Edit...
Give every user & group listed FULL read/write permissions.
Apply/OK to complete changes...

Also, in the folder that contains the Plugins folder, find the SketchUp.exe file.
Right-click > Context-menu.
Properties.
Compatibility.
Tick the check-box near the bottom of the dialog 'Always Run as Administrator...'
Apply/OK

Restart SketchUp and reinstall the toolset, now retry as n the initial paragraphs above...

Aris · 20 Oct 2013, 06:25

hello everyone!

I have the strangest problem.

I install Extrusion tools manualy, everything works perfectly, but the next time I open the program, it's gone! (some of the rb's are missing from the plugins folder.
I checked the antiviruse's log and didn't find anything so it's not that.
Does anyone have any idea what it could be?
(SU pro 13)

TIG · 20 Oct 2013, 11:12

Check that you have FULL security permissions to the Plugins folder.

If you have a custom-icon for the Plugins folder revert to the default because that can affect things oddly...

Next set permissions correctly...
As an Admin [if you are not one, then give yourself this power under the Control Panels > Users dialog]
Select the Plugins folder's icon...
Right-click > context-menu >
Properties > Security > Edit...

Ensure every user/group listed has FULL read/write permissions.
Apply/OK

If you had limited permission Windows can make it look like you have successfully installed files in the 'Programs Files' tree, but in fact you have not. It has put them in a VirtualStore, where SketchUp can't load from !
Having a button/link in the top bars of the Plugins folder's Windows Explorer window saying 'Compatibility Files...' is a sure sign of this...

Also set SketchUp to always run as admin...
Select the SketchUp.exe icon...
Right-click > context-menu >
Properties > Compatibility
Tick the check-box near the bottom 'Always run as administrator'

Since you have v2013 and an RBZ archive... why not use SketchUp's Preferences > Extensions > Install... button OR the 'SketchUcation Plugin Store' toolset 'Archive Installer', OR in SketchUp use the 'SketchUcation Plugin Store' AutoInstall feature, which also checks folder permissions for you and tells you if you need to fix them - unlike a manual install when Windows uses the VirtualStore without expressly telling you !

Aris · 30 Oct 2013, 06:45

I still have a problem!
I made sure I'm an administrator, I gave full rights to the plugins folder, I set sketchup to "run as administrator" I reinstalled it 3 or four times and every time The contents of TIGtools file keep on disappearing upon starting sketchup! (the plugins are working, it's just that the toolbar is nowhere to be seen)

Dave R · 30 Oct 2013, 09:25

Try this: Enable the toolbar in View>Toolbars. Pull all of the toolbars off the top rows. Does the Extrude Tool toolbar show up in the upper left corner? If so, you have now found it and can place it where you need but you really ought to install the current version of SU2013. there was a bug in the first release that caused new toolbars to appear under the existing ones. It was fixed though.

Aris · 30 Oct 2013, 10:47

ok, I've installed it from plugin store

TIG: Extrude Tools v2.1
IMPORTANT UPDATE - A varied toolset for Extruding Edges into meshes etc... Now future-proofed...
Downloads: 6267 [ Version Updated: 2013/05/30 ]

-the plugin appears checked in preferences/extensions/Extrude tools
-It appears checked in view/toolbars.
-It does not even appear as a choice when I left-click the toolbars void space...
I did what you said with the top left toolbars still nothing...
could there be some conflict with files from older versions left in plugins folder or some other plugin?

Rich O Brien · 30 Oct 2013, 10:49

@aris said:

-It does not even appear as a choice when I left-click the toolbars void space...

You need to right click

Aris · 30 Oct 2013, 10:52

sorry, I meant right click...

Rich O Brien · 30 Oct 2013, 10:56

Put everything in your plugins into a folder named #plugins

now install the Extrude .rbz file again an see if it appears

You need to first rule out if there is a clash

Dave R · 30 Oct 2013, 11:00

@aris said:

I did what you said with the top left toolbars still nothing...

Did you move all of the toolbars as I said?

Aris · 30 Oct 2013, 11:11

Same story! I tried what you said, even relaunched SU and still it appears everywhere except
the toolbars...

Aris · 30 Oct 2013, 11:13

yes, I did move all the toolbars (before) and now that I removed everything, it still isn't there. (which I suppose is apparent since it doesn't appear as a choice in the right click menu...)

Rich O Brien · 30 Oct 2013, 11:14

That's is plain weird.

Do you have v8 installed? If so is this reproducible on that?

Can you post a screenie of your Plugins folder?

Aris · 30 Oct 2013, 11:17

yes I have it installed and there's no problem there

Aris · 30 Oct 2013, 11:23

here's the new plugins folder (I also gave it full rights)

Rich O Brien · 30 Oct 2013, 11:28

And you are running the very latest release of 2013?

What's inside the ExtrudeTools folder?

You've the extension enabled under preferences?

You have it enabled in the SketchUcation Tools Managers?

Aris · 30 Oct 2013, 11:31

That's weird!
after I checked and unchecked it from the toolbars dialogue and moving around the other toolbars, it finaly appeared but without a frame, so I cannot move it!

Aris · 30 Oct 2013, 11:34

yes, I told you, it is checked/visible everywhere

plugins manager, plugins menu, preferences/extensions, toolbars dialogue
it's only absent in the toolbar right click menu.

Box · 30 Oct 2013, 11:42

Double click on it now you can see it and it will come loose.

Rich O Brien · 30 Oct 2013, 11:42

@unknownuser said:

Try this: Enable the toolbar in View>Toolbars. Pull all of the toolbars off the top rows. Does the Extrude Tool toolbar show up in the upper left corner? If so, you have now found it and can place it where you need but you really ought to install the current version of SU2013. there was a bug in the first release that caused new toolbars to appear under the existing ones. It was fixed though.

Dave earlier mentioned this...

To me it looks like this is related to the bug Dave flagged.

What happens when you check for update under the Help menu?