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    • Dave RD Offline
      Dave R
      last edited by

      Bruce, first, go to the Plugins folder and remove any files you've installed that are related to this plugin. Then find the ZIP file you downloaded and change the extension from .zip to.rbz. Next, in SketchUp, go to Window>Preferences>Extensions. Click on Install Extension... Navigate to the rbz file, select it, choose Open and all affirmative responses. Click OK to close Preferences and then look in the Extensions menu. It should be there. If not, quit SketchUp and restart.

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      • Dave RD Offline
        Dave R
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        FWIW, I just installed on SU2016 on my work computer and it works fine here, too.

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        • kuponoK Offline
          kupono
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          Same error as Bruce. I did as suggested for Bruce: removed files in the plugin folder, then renamed zip to rbz, installed, exited, restarted,and got the same error. I see grayscale in the Plugins Manager, but not a sign of it in Tools, Extensions, or context menu.


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          • Dave RD Offline
            Dave R
            last edited by

            Check your PMs.

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            • kuponoK Offline
              kupono
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              Jim, This is a fantastic! Thanks.
              Dave, Thanks for the help.

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                darospa
                last edited by

                what is a PMs? thank you in advance

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                • Dave RD Offline
                  Dave R
                  last edited by

                  @darospa said:

                  what is a PMs? thank you in advance

                  PMs = Private Messages

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                  • B Offline
                    Bruce Watt
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                    I have done as Dave has kindle suggested but I get the same error as Kupono.

                    Looked at PM nothing there, although the inbox states (Inbox(1)) but nothing shows.


                    PM box shows one message...but no message

                    SKUP PRO 2021 latest version / update
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                      Bruce Watt
                      last edited by

                      Thanks Dave and Jim

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                      • L Offline
                        lesourdsville
                        last edited by

                        I'm also getting that same error. Any advice?

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                          tex77903
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                          Same error for me as well. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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                          • Dave RD Offline
                            Dave R
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                            @tex77903 said:

                            Same error for me as well. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

                            Check your PMs.

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                              tex77903
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                              Thanks Dave!!

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                              • R Offline
                                RandyInLA
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                                Running SU Make 2016 on OSX El Capitan.

                                I too have downloaded the zip, renamed the extension to .rbz, successfully imported via the Extenstions section of Preferences but it throws that "Error: #<NameError: uninitialized constant JF>" error. Not sure why the solution isn't posted, but I'd like to request a PM as well, Dave. 😄

                                Thanks!
                                -=Randy

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                                • GMthompsonG Offline
                                  GMthompson
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                                  @utiler said:

                                  First of all I'll echo Dave_R's comments. Jim, you are a generous fella...

                                  For those of you who didn't see how this evolved, see http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=40%26amp;t=12226%26amp;p=88778#p88778

                                  Sometime, a schematic presentations seem to be best a little less 'in your face' in grey scale...

                                  I tried it out on a little modular house I designed...

                                  The only problem with it is that it doesn't act like 'face styles' in that changing from one scene to another it doesn't save with styles....

                                  Not complaining though!!! :sketchstatic: Would love to see it included in SU7.0 face styles...

                                  i 100% agree at times less is better i set up scenes/models very similar at times for LO

                                  you can learn something everyday by paying attention

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                                  • Bob JamesB Offline
                                    Bob James
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                                    @dave r said:

                                    Sepo, after making the model all grey, right click on a face containing the color you wish to show. Choose Revert color from the menu. 😉

                                    This extension, now called Grey Scale, is available at the Extension Store. Is there another, more capable, paid version somewhere?

                                    In my case, I have a modification to a large building, but some of the colors in the modification are also used in the original building and some of the surrounding equipment.

                                    The big problem with this extension is that if the color you are reverting is anywhere else in the part you want to stay grey, it will also revert, ruining the effect of having the part stand out.

                                    Is it possible to have the reversion limited to a selected group without affecting any of the other groups in the model?
                                    Or, maybe it could be limited to affecting only one layer.

                                    Another difficulty I'm having is that I can find no way to revert the entire model.

                                    In addition to the GreyScale Mode there is another option called "Front Face Mode". I couldn't figure out what that does. 😞

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                                    • Dave RD Offline
                                      Dave R
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                                      Bob, I don't know of another version of this extension, commercial or otherwise. Since it is working on the materials not on the geometry, I don't know how it could treat the material in one place and not another. I guess I would make new materials for the ones you want to show in gray. That's easily done in the Materials window. Maybe you then end up with Red Brick and Red Brick GS (GS for Gray Scale).

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                                        turbodizayn
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                                        Hello Jim!
                                        I cant disable grayscale mode=((( Revert does not work! Help!!!

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                                        • Dave RD Offline
                                          Dave R
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                                          @turbodizayn said:

                                          Hello Jim!
                                          I cant disable grayscale mode=((( Revert does not work! Help!!!

                                          So you don't have Revert in the context menu when you right click on a painted face?
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                                            Jim
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                                            Although I wrote it, I have an irrational dislike of this particular plugin. Lol.

                                            I will look into it this afternoon. Please send the faulty model before making too many changes- I'm afraid it may become unrecoverable.

                                            Hi

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