Sketchup 2014

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I have just installed Sketchup 2014 and there is an error on my screen.
(see attachment)
The word "Plugins" does not apear between "Window and Help"
I cannot find the pluginsfolder in the 2014 version.

Can somebody help me please ?

Regards, Willem.

Prt Scr SU 2014 (1).JPG

Jim

That's the Draw Metal plugins - have you contacted the author to see of they have an update for SU 2014?

http://www.drawmetal.com/contactus

TIG

Sketchup v2014 uses a newer [better] version of Ruby.
This has meant that in anticipation of the release, over the past weeks authors have been doing a lot of reworking of Plugins, discreetly in the background.

Your older Plugins will probably cause issues with v2014.
Do not copy them across.
It's highly recommended that you install fresh versions from the PluginStore etc.
Many of these are already updated to work with v2014 [as well as earlier versions].

There may of course be issues with some older plugins that haven't been updated [yet]...
Please report these in each Plugin's thread [or directly to the creator], so that the author is made aware of an issue and hopefully a v2014 friendly update will be forthcoming: sometimes there is major recoding needed, but often the .rb file just needs its "encoding" changing to "UTF-8 without BOM" rather than "ANSI", which can be easily done in Notepad++...

Clayton49

To all,

Just downloaded SU Pro 2014, installation was swift without any problems, o.k. so far. However some of my extension that I've become reliant on for work, has flagged up as "INCOMPATIBLE" on my extension warehouse, these are:-

1001 BIT TOOLS
2014 DIBAC
LAYER MANAGER
PROJECTION & GUIDE TOOL

I've therefore reverted back to SU Pro 2103 in the meantime.

As for SU Pro 2014, I'm not too sure what everyone was expecting, but the upgrade list seems a tad light to me...

I would have thought as there's so many extensions available, some would have made it into SU as hard wired. Perhaps an idea would be that SU HQ could offer an incentive for extension writer "GURUS" as a sort of cash prise for voted good ones to be included in future upgrades.

I think these would have to be improved utility ones, as this would assist all SU users. For me, I just can't live without "LAYER MANAGER"...... so back to SU Pro 2013.

Over & out,
Clayton.

pbacot

I suppose with yearly updates less can be expected, but, yes, I didn't see anything that had "wow" or "at last!" (sic) flavor to it. The speed improvements probably make it worth my while to go on from v.8, but I don't want to lose 1001bit tools just yet. The 3d warehouse and webgl are looking good, though that's not something I spend much time with myself.

Maybe Ruby 2.0 is a big deal for developers. IDK.