Newbie Sketchucation plugin store question

Danwhite

Hi People id like to introduce myself to this site.
My name is Danny, I've been looking in on SU sites and users over the last few years , having a go with the free version on and off , and am now committed to learning SU fully, but im a slow learner.
I work within the Upholstery sector in the UK and prototype new products for Branded furniture. Making upholstery is my profession, and have used Solidworks and lectra , both have taken up more of my time than id have liked ,enjoyed, but both a given me a insite to cad software albeit via work constraints.

Anyway i am getting to grips with SU love all the free vids tutorials can see a large vibrant community with lots of new things to learn and play about with.
SU just feels like the right horse to back.

I recognize the attraction for some of the Plugins and have downloaded some manually in to suv8 and trial pro

I also tried trial pro 2013 then went back to v8,

Installed the plugin store and have failed to add pluggins via the store interface,

looks like they are downloading because im asked for install permissions but don't seam to
see them in the v8 plugins folder or show up in SU . im sure it worked on the trial pro version i had running and now suspect some file save error .

Any way any help is appreciated ! I have allot to learn .

Getting a pro version ASAP need to play with solid's and dynamic components.

A most humbled babbling newbie
Danny

solo

Welcome to SCF Danny.

It's always interesting to hear about how folks use SU, if I may ask how would you be using Sketchup, furniture modeling?

If you need any help just ask, besides the one above that I belive Rich or Gabor will have an answer as that is above my knowledge.

Box

Usually it is caused by not having full permissions to the plugin folder.

Go to the properties of the plugin folder and in the security tab set full control for all users.

Danwhite

Hi thanks for that Box I'll give it a go tomorrow I'm looking to use sketch up for showing my own furniture and offering bespoke cad patterns through the warehouse, big dreams small budgets Solo!

Danwhite

Yep changing the permissions on the plugin folder did the trick many thanks Box !

Just tried out the Flatten Vertices plugin , amazed !

I have all ways wanted to unfold cloth from sofa's to dxf could this be done? , there is software that can but i dont have 20K