Sketchup 2014 Plugins Folder in Windows7 Professional
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I'm new to Windows 7 Pro. I am having a hard time locating the plugins folder. I followed info on the net and in forums that point to C:/user/username/application data or some say Program Data. On my system I see no such directories. I get users/user name/thunbnails, contacts, desktop, downloads, favorites, links, mydocuments, etc. but no application data and I also cannot find any folder called "Program Data. I'm trying to learn how I can install plugins manually. Any help is appreciated.
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The easiest way to find it is to install the extra feature the backroom boys have added to the Plugin store.
Find My Plugins Folder.
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Thanks for that but when I installed it said it did successfully but I do not see it in my plugins tab. This is why I stuck with XP at home. Life is so much simpler with earlier stuff.
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I found it! I had to show hidden files. For me it's Username/AppData/Roaming/Sketchup2014/Sketchup/Plugins. Now I have to figure out how to get Kerkythea to launch automatically from using the plugin...
Thanks.
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@tig said:
The C:/Users/UserName/../Plugins folder is the default Plugins location for each user.
The Preferences > Extensions > Install button always puts Plugins into that folder, for that user.
You cannot change that.
This means that when that user starts SketchUp, it loads Plugin from that folder for them.
Other users on that PC do not get that Plugin loading - unless of course they have also installed their own copy of it into their own C:/Users/OtherUserName/../Plugins folderYou only need to make the Plugins folder in the C:/ProgramData../Plugins location if you want to share Plugins between several users on the same PC.
You cannot use the Preferences > Extensions > Install button to place Plugins into that folder.
I recommend that you do NOT have this secondary Plugins folder at all, UNLESS you have several users on that PC... AND you want them all to share the same Plugins...Unlike the native Installer, if you install and use the SketchUcation 'Plugin Store', its dialog's AutoInstall function offers you the alternative installation folder, if it's been created..
If you already have the file in RBZ [or ZIP] format, then you can also use the SketchUcation 'Archive Installer' [SketchUcation submenu item] - this works in a similar way to the dialog, and offers you the alternative installation folder, if it's been created.open up am instance of Su. Go to windows, extension warwhouse, select the one to want to load and follow instructions . That will load it for you
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Can anyone explain why this is hidden? The new plugin system doesn't seem conducive to maintaining my plethora of plugins (hacked up functionality) across different versions of SU....
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@ashscott said:
Can anyone explain why this is hidden?
You may thank Microsoft for this. They automatically hide all sorts of folders these days, like it or not.@ashscott said:
The new plugin system doesn't seem conducive to maintaining my plethora of plugins across different versions of SU....
I would argue that making it easier to maintain your plugins is exactly why we created the extension warehouse and moved the plugins folder to the location where it should have been all along.Here's my advice though. Don't worry about where your plugins live. Go to the extension warehouse and install new copies. Be blissfully unaware of where they live on disk. Just use the plugins and go about your business. This is the way we intended the feature to work.
Andrew
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Ok, so the issue is me hanging on to the old system
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If you have SketchUcation PluginStore Toolset then this add-on will add a submenu item to find and open the default Plugins folder for you [any version]
http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=SCF-openPluginsFolder
It will be packaged with future updates, but for now its distributed as an 'extra'... -
To be fair, there are older plugins that do not have the "rbz" extension at the end or they are not located through the store and so will not install automatically. That means they have to be installed manually thus we have to find the plugins folder. I for one like to dig and know exactly where things are on my PC.
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Dear Mistro,
I'm not too sure if this will work, but you could try it.
Put all your <file>.rb plugins in a folder and then zip it get <plugins>.zip. Then, change the .zip file type name to .rbz and install through Windows>Preferences>Extensions in the usual way. I sometimes use the reverse procedure to manually install plugins that download with the .rbz file type.
Regards,
Bob -
"Window > Ruby Console":
Sketchup.find_support_file('Plugins')Norbert
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@ashscott said:
The new plugin system doesn't seem conducive to maintaining my plethora of plugins across different versions of SU....
I would argue that making it easier to maintain your plugins is exactly why we created the extension warehouse and moved the plugins folder to the location where it should have been all along.[/quote]I also think you have slightly messed things up by when it is no longer possible to copy the old scripts through explorer and just run them. Sure, It is more maneageable on the small scale, but when you wanna install 20+ plugins or so it is not easier to install them one-by-one.
And maybe this is just some user interface-obstacle one has to overcome as a one time dealy, but I think it pretty clear that you guys at T just want more info about what plugins sketchup-users are running. Maybe you should just be frank about this. It would lower an unfortionate brewing sense of hostility in me against the new versions of sketchup.
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@sellberg said:
I also think you have slightly messed things up by when it is no longer possible to copy the old scripts through explorer and just run them. Sure, It is more maneageable on the small scale, but when you wanna install 20+ plugins or so it is not easier to install them one-by-one.
You've missed a very important point. You can copy plugins for your old installation to SU2014. It isn't advised because Ruby 1.8 is no longer supported, SU2014 had to switch to Ruby 2.0 and a large number of plugins weren't written to meet the Ruby 2.0 standards. Simply copying from your old installation would have created many problems. It's easy to find examples here of people who did just blindly copy over plugins and then whinge about them not working. Ruby isn't an invention of Trimble nor of the SketchUp team so it isn't proper to lay the blame on them.
I for one am happy for the Sketchucation Plugin Store and Extension Warehouse and Install Extension. They have reduced somewhat the number of posts from users who can't figure out how to install plugins or can't get their plugins to work because they installed them incorrectly. There's a number of us who have spent countless hours helping others to get plugins installed correctly. You can go back and look through the Plugins forum and easily find example after example. The problem hasn't been eliminated because there are still people who insist on installing plugins manually and can't manage to do it correctly, but it is fewer than it used to be.
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