[Plugin] SketchUcation Tools 2.6.1

TIG

That last part sounds like a Filewall issue.
Make sure SketchUp 2015 is set to allow it to make changes and access the Internet...

Can you download an RBZ from the PluginStore page - linked above.
Then install it using the Preferences > Extensions > Install button in v2015.
Does its file[s] appear in the Users Plugins folder.
Does it then appear in the Plugins Manager and My-Installs ?

This is weird...

leminilab

@tig said:

That last part sounds like a Filewall issue.
Make sure SketchUp 2015 is set to allow it to make changes and access the Internet...

Can you download an RBZ from the PluginStore page - linked above.
Then install it using the Preferences > Extensions > Install button in v2015.
Does its file[s] appear in the Users Plugins folder.
Does it then appear in the Plugins Manager and My-Installs ?

This is weird...

I enabled Sketchup in Windows Firewall.
The "More infoé and "Donate" buttons work. But Autoinstall doesn't.
The install tab is blank.

Frederik

@leminilab said:

The "More infoé and "Donate" buttons work. But Autoinstall doesn't.
The install tab is blank.

Donate a little and see if that fixes it...

TIG

You have a 'Download' button in the page - I did NOT mean the dialog [which has the AutoInstall button]...

Or is something blocking your browser and its ability to access the Internet and 'Download' files too - are you using Internet Explorer to access sketchUcation.com ?

It's also affecting the PluginStore downloads and the related download and AutoInstall via the dialog within SketchUp, which uses Internet Explorer [incidentally, what version do you use?].

Try and reset your IE Internet Options to use the default settings, perhaps they are too strict ?

Have you also emptied the IE cache as I suggested previously...

leminilab

@frederik said:

@leminilab said:

The "More infoé and "Donate" buttons work. But Autoinstall doesn't.
The install tab is blank.

Donate a little and see if that fixes it...

@tig said:

You have a 'Download' button in the page - I did NOT mean the dialog [which has the AutoInstall button]...

Or is something blocking your browser and its ability to access the Internet and 'Download' files too - are you using Internet Explorer to access sketchUcation.com ?

It's also affecting the PluginStore downloads and the related download and AutoInstall via the dialog within SketchUp, which uses Internet Explorer [incidentally, what version do you use?].

Try and reset your IE Internet Options to use the default settings, perhaps they are too strict ?

Have you also emptied the IE cache as I suggested previously...

I did download the .rbz and installed it from the Window/Preferences/Extensions Menu.
I'm using Firefox but the plugin seems to be able to connect to internet because I can see the list of plugins when I click the Sketchucation Plugin Store button.
IE version is 11.0.9600.17358. I did empty the cache.
I really don't think it's a browser-related issue: it works fine with my SU 8 version.

I really don't want this to take too much energy from anyone: I can still install my plugins manually!

TIG

The dialog can receive data from the server, but downloading the file seems to be the issue [which then fails to AutoLoad through the dialog].
If you try the AutoLoad download with the Ruby Console open are there any error messages.
You ought to get some useful error-dialogs but maybe the unforeseen peculiar set of circumstances is not calling those...

Can you also try this in the Ruby Console [copy/paste+<enter>] - it will open the temporary destination folder for the downloaded RBZ file...
UI.openURL("file:///#{SCF::TEMPDIR}")
It should open the temp folder, pathed something like:
C:/Users/Leminlab/AppData/Local/Temp/SCF

Try to AutoInstall a Plugin from the dialog.

If that folder shows no RBZ being added to it [perhaps very briefly], then the download is failing.
But if it shows an RBZ arriving [even fleetingly] then the installer is failing to process the RBZ.
If it leaves an RBZ in that folder... then can you rename it with a .ZIP suffix and try opening it - are its contents OK, or is it 'corrupted' ?

leminilab

@tig said:

The dialog can receive data from the server, but downloading the file seems to be the issue [which then fails to AutoLoad through the dialog].
If you try the AutoLoad download with the Ruby Console open are there any error messages.
You ought to get some useful error-dialogs but maybe the unforeseen peculiar set of circumstances is not calling those...

Can you also try this in the Ruby Console [copy/paste+<enter>] - it will open the temporary destination folder for the downloaded RBZ file...
UI.openURL("file:///#{SCF::TEMPDIR}")
It should open the temp folder, pathed something like:
C:/Users/Leminlab/AppData/Local/Temp/SCF

Try to AutoInstall a Plugin from the dialog.

If that folder shows no RBZ being added to it [perhaps very briefly], then the download is failing.
But if it shows an RBZ arriving [even fleetingly] then the installer is failing to process the RBZ.
If it leaves an RBZ in that folder... then can you rename it with a .ZIP suffix and try opening it - are its contents OK, or is it 'corrupted' ?

Here's the Ruby Console message when I try an Autoinstall:
Error: #<NoMethodError: undefined method downcase' for nil:NilClass> c:/users/leminilab/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2015/sketchup/plugins/sketchucation/scf_dialog.rbs:442:in block in custom_plugins'
c:/users/leminilab/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2015/sketchup/plugins/sketchucation/scf_dialog.rbs:439:in each' c:/users/leminilab/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2015/sketchup/plugins/sketchucation/scf_dialog.rbs:439:in custom_plugins'
c:/users/leminilab/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2015/sketchup/plugins/sketchucation/scf_dialog.rbs:461:in autoinstall_dlg' c:/users/leminilab/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2015/sketchup/plugins/sketchucation/scf_dialog.rbs:405:in set_autoinstall_choice'
c:/users/leminilab/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2015/sketchup/plugins/sketchucation/scf_dialog.rbs:73:in block in new' SketchUp:1:in call'

No rbz downloaded in the C:\Users\leminilab\AppData\Local\Temp\SCF folder.

TIG

That error report is very helpful.
It is failing on this:
pd = Sketchup.find_support_file("Plugins")
Can you then try this:
pd.downcase
Can you try it in the Ruby Console a report back...

It seems strange that your SketchUp cannot find your Plugins folder ?

leminilab

@tig said:

That error report is very helpful.
It is failing on this:
pd = Sketchup.find_support_file("Plugins")
Can you then try this:
pd.downcase
Can you try it in the Ruby Console a report back...

It seems strange that your SketchUp cannot find your Plugins folder ?

pd = Sketchup.find_support_file("Plugins")
C:/Users/leminilab/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins
pd.downcase
c:/users/leminilab/appdata/roaming/sketchup/sketchup 2015/sketchup/plugins

I should have mentioned I have created a symbolic link for C:\Program Files\SketchUp\SketchUp 2015\Tools pointing to a folder on another hard drive. I thougt this Tools folder was containing the rubies. Could this be the cause of all this?

leminilab

Yep, the symbolic link was the cause! I deleted it, repaired the installation and it's working now!
Sorry for the trouble...

But making a symbolic link from C:\Users\leminilab\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2015\SketchUp\Plugins to another location doesn't work anymore though...

Thanks a lot TIG!

TIG

Aaargh!
The SketchUp/Tools folder just comes with a few files that SketchUp needs by default.
It should never contain your own files.
It also has limited permissions by default.
Your User's Plugins folder [in the AppData path] is where all Plugin files are installed by default.
Your symbolic link messing on might have messed up something...
If you have messed around with the folders, then little wonder that SketchUp can't find it in the SCF dialog code...
Although weirdly using the snippet in the Console seemed to work as expected.
In the rbs code it's 'Nil' so it fails...
Is your User's Plugins folder an ordinary folder or a 'link' ?

leminilab

@tig said:

Aaargh!
The SketchUp/Tools folder just comes with a few files that SketchUp needs by default.
It should never contain your own files.
It also has limited permissions by default.
Your User's Plugins folder [in the AppData path] is where all Plugin files are installed by default.
Your symbolic link messing on might have messed up something...
If you have messed around with the folders, then little wonder that SketchUp can't find it in the SCF dialog code...
Although weirdly using the snippet in the Console seemed to work as expected.
In the rbs code it's 'Nil' so it fails...
Is your User's Plugins folder an ordinary folder or a 'link' ?

I tried both: ordinary folder works, symbolic link doesn't.

TIG

You can try making a Plugins folder somewhere else [linked à la Dropbox?]... and use Fredo's AdditionalPluginsFolder script [in default Plugins] to link it into the $:, so its files are loaded as SketchUp starts.

With a 'custom' folder you CANNOT use the Extensions Warehouse OR the Preferences > Extensions > Install... auto-installer methods on RBZs. BUT you can use either the SCF PluginStore dialog's AutoInstall OR the SketchUcation submenu's Archive Installer, which will process an RBZ [or ZIP] and when it spots the 'custom' plugins folder it asks you if you want to install into that instead of the default User's Plugins location.
Not sure how it fares with the 'linked' folder option... but it ought to work...

toddbg

I am having an issue with this new version.
I am logged in and it recognizes me on the profile tab. However when I go to installs, downloads or bundles all I get are blank windows.

This is in v2014 as I was going to try the bundles to migrate over to 2015

Thoughts?

Gábor

Did you install your plugins using the pluginstore plugin? It displays your installs only if they were installed by the tool.

toddbg

I believe I did. when I go to the profile tab it has my login and statistics listed there.

bimbachi

Hi Rich,
is 2.6.1 is done to working with SKP8?
i'm on skp8 and with 2.6.1 "updates" dont work?
regards

TIG

@bimbachi said:

Hi Rich,
is 2.6.1 is done to working with SKP8?
i'm on skp8 and with 2.6.1 "updates" dont work?
regards
SketchUcation toolset works with all versions of SketchUp from v2015 back down to v8,
BUT v8 must be the current version - the earliest version was not compatible with auto-installing...
You must have FULL security permissions to read/write/modify files in the default Plugins folder...

The PluginStore tool's 'My Updates' function only lists items if you have previously installed plugins using this tool, or you have downloaded RBZ files directly from the SCF PluginStore using the same SCF member-name that you are now logged in with...

johnwmcc

I've just downloaded and installed the current version of the Tools in SU2015 Pro 64 bit, on Windows 7 64 bit.

When I tried to AutoInstall TIG's Mirror 4.2 plugin, I get a window popping up saying I have a choice of installation folder - the default, and a custom folder.

Nothing happens when I click on either, or select either and press {Enter}. Does this version of the Tools not work on 64 bit SU?

After it first happened, I restarted the machine in case that might help. No difference.

I can install the Mirror plugin by download of the RBZ file, but I'm curious to know if AutoInstall ought to work, and if there's anything I can do to make it work.

TIG

@johnwmcc said:

I've just downloaded and installed the current version of the Tools in SU2015 Pro 64 bit, on Windows 7 64 bit.

When I tried to AutoInstall TIG's Mirror 4.2 plugin, I get a window popping up saying I have a choice of installation folder - the default, and a custom folder.

Nothing happens when I click on either, or select either and press {Enter}. Does this version of the Tools not work on 64 bit SU?

After it first happened, I restarted the machine in case that might help. No difference.

I can install the Mirror plugin by download of the RBZ file, but I'm curious to know if AutoInstall ought to work, and if there's anything I can do to make it work.
It's probable that your 'folder-choice' dialog has initially got made 'too small'.
This has been reported on a handful PCs - for a while, not just in this version, it tries to set a minimum height but on some setups it seems to balk.

In that dialog, as well as the top drop-down list of installation destinations - from which you can choose a folder other than the initial default of your user's standard Plugins folder - there should be a button at the bottom of the dialog, which you need to click to submit your choice - otherwise it thinks you have canceled !
Drag the bottom edge of the dialog down to reveal all.
Then it should work with a selection from the list [or leave the default highlighted] and then a simple button click...
Its new size should also be remembered in future usage...
Let us know if this works OR not !