Installation of .rb plugins in 2014 and 2015

sfto1

I placed a .rb file in each of the appropriate plugin folders for each of the versions, and in either instance the plugin does not show up in any menu.

It is a scene rename plugin by Todd Burch

Thoughts?

Dave R

What do you mean by "appropriate plugin folders"? Which folder, actually? And how did you put it there?

sfto1

I pasted the .rb file in C:\Users\Dave\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2015\SketchUp\Plugins

Dave R

OK. It looks like this plugin has the same issue as some of the tools by Didier Bur. There's some editing required to the end of the file. I'm looking for the exact text but it was covered dozens of times in threads about didier's plugins.

Dave R

Try the following:

Edit the plugin's .rb file using Notepad.
At the end of the code it says:
.unpack("m").to_s
change the end part to read
.unpack("m")[0]
Save and restart SketchUp...

Dave R

I installed the plugin after editing it and it showed up for me and it seems to work just fine. Did you edit the text exactly as shown and restart SketchUp after saving the file? What program did you edit in?

sfto1

No luck, It's not that critical either. Thanks for the help.

Dave R

Check your PMs.

sfto1

Notepad

Dave R

Hmmm.....

Box

@dave r said:

Check your PMs.

It's about defcon two at the moment and if I don't cook her dinner soon who knows where it will end up..

Dave R

I knew you'd be along.

TIG

I also confirm that making that simple change to the end of the code should make it load [under the View menu !] and it works fine...

sfto1

Thank you to all. Dave R helped get it straight.

DDK

trying to figure out how to add this rb file, its not showing up in the install list but is in my downloads .... I don't know code so im not changing it.. can anyone help with newb terms?

Dave R

What rb file?

driven

@ddk said:

trying to figure out how to add this rb file, its not showing up in the install list but is in my downloads .... I don't know code so im not changing it.. can anyone help with newb terms? :?

there is no 'auto-instal' for any .rb files, only .rbz...
notice the 'z', it's stands for 'zipped', so if you 'zip' any .rb then rename it's extension from .zip to .rbz, it will appear in the add extension list...

john