Sketchup start / load time
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Hello,
Is there a way to log how long different plugins take to load at startup? My office machine takes ages for sketchup to start, while my home pc loads sketchup files rather quickly.....and the home pc is an old i5, office is an overclocked 6 core i7.
I figure the culprit is most likely a rogue plugin...I use a lot of plugins. Any advice (other than loading each plugin one a time and restarting sketchup to test each one) would be greatly appreciated.Thanks,
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For my Plugin, you can check the time in Window > LibFredo6 Settings.... > Performance.
I am interested to know what time you have on your two machines....
....of course, if you installe any of them.
Fredo
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A slow plugin is certainly a possibility. Do you have the same suite loaded on both machines? Any differences would be the place to start looking.
SketchUp itself does not provide any log of extension load times, so unless the author has programmed something (as Fredo6 does) there is nothing to help you other than trial and error.
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SLB - Thanks so much for the reply! I've been too busy to even think any more about it, but once I get some free time I'm going to compare installed plugins and try to get to the bottom of it.
Fredo - Of course, I have ALL of your plugins installed....I don't think sketchup would be much use to me without them! Thanks for all your brilliant code!
(your plugins grand total at 836 milliseconds...so don't think they're the culprit) 
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@gd3design said:
Fredo - Of course, I have ALL of your plugins installed....I don't think sketchup would be much use to me without them! Thanks for all your brilliant code!
(your plugins grand total at 836 milliseconds...so don't think they're the culprit) 835 ms seems ok. I have 764 ms average on my machine. Thanks for the info, as actually you are the first one to report about this.
Fredo
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I have all SKP file associated with Sketchup Viewer. As I have so many iterations of the same file for different designs, I find it so much quicker to load up in Sketchup viewer and find the correct file. Then once found just right click on the file and click on 'open with Sketchup 2018'.
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Thanks to everyone who responded and gave me recommendations for troubleshooting!
I just wanted to give an update for anyone experiencing the dame kind of issues. First of all, its been about month since I got the problems sorted out, so my memory is little hazy. Secondly, I had so many things going wrong at the same time that I'm not sure what problems were preexisting and which I caused myself while troubleshooting the original problems while stressed out and running on no sleep with deadlines looming. Anyway, I do remember a huge performance boost after reinstalling Sketchup again. Since I'd already done this recently during the trouble shooting process, I think a big source of the slow down was due to somehow not right-clicking the .exe and choosing 'run as administrator' to reinstall sketchup. Big lesson - not matter what kind of seasoned sketchup veteran you may think you are, you can still make dumb mistakes. Anyone have problems like I described, try doing the right-click, 'run as administrator' and choose 'repair'. So I must have mistakenly installed sketchup improperly by not running the installation exe as admin while troubleshooting my original problem (original problem was a failing drive).Another issue was sorted out by disabling all plugins, then enabling them a few at time as I needed them and restarting often to see which caused problems. I'm happy to say that the latest Vray 3.6 update solved the plugin conflicts.
There were some other problems, but I completely cant remember them now...it's been a long month. I'll update if they come back to me...@bruce watt said:
I have all SKP file associated with Sketchup Viewer. As I have so many iterations of the same file for different designs, I find it so much quicker to load up in Sketchup viewer and find the correct file. Then once found just right click on the file and click on 'open with Sketchup 2018'.
Thanks, Bruce! I had never heard of Sketchup Viewer before. It's definitely great for opening huge files quickly to find the version you're looking for..seems it will open any size skp really fast. (specially good for those of us who use tons of plugins and have files with a lot of Vray data or Skatter objects!)
Cheers!
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Didn't know about Fredo6 Performance report, so took screenshot. Hopefully it might be helpful.
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