Greetings
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Just a quick "Hello" to everyone in the SCF. My name is Craig, aka "Nuclear Moose" and I live in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. I'm a GIS technician by day, and I am relatively new to Sketchup. I did many years of draughting work, mostly in a junior role for road building and similar projects. I have over 10 years of experience using MicroStation. I'm not very familiar with AutoCAD, other than translating DWG/DXF files for use in MicroStation or to the ArcGIS suite we use at work.
My interests in using SU are mainly for hobby work; woodworking and modeling for Google Earth. I've already joined the woodworking group here at SCF. I don't want to build fine furniture or anything, mostly I want to build cars and trucks and planes and such. SU is an obvious choice for working at the scale I want to build with.
I'm really impressed with the community here already -- lots of friendly, helpful folks. Cheers to you for giving your time and talents to help others.
One frustrating thing I've found is in regards to plugins. It's really hard to find them and really hard to follow the threads where plugins are announced and then updated. I'm surprised that there is not a repository of some kind along with a plugin developer wiki where the plugins are documented. A forum thread is a really hard place to manage stuff like this.
An example of how I think plugins could be managed comes from the WordPress blogging engine world, where they have an SVN repository along with a developer wiki powered by TRAC. Version control is automatically managed by SVN, and it's a lot easier to find a plugin and send feedback to the author.
The WordPress plugin site is hosted at this location. and the free, Open Source software used to manage the site is located here.
Anyway, thanks for putting together a great resource for Sketchup users of all levels!
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Hi, and welcome.
Excellent idea for plugins... Indeed it's kind of chaotic right now, and something similar to Ubuntu's "repositories" would be nice. (A Google plugin warehouse?) However, right now there is an index with a search function:
http://www.sketchucation.com/
It is far for complete, but a good start. I'm also making an effort to link to every plugin I mention in my posts. -
Unfortunately Google is not very interested in a Google Ruby Warehouse. They feel that too much harm can be done through ruby scripts and they don't want to be responsible in any way. So instead of trying to find a good solution, they just kill the idea
Chris
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Google search and Google Chrome alert me of potentially dangerous sites.
Gmail performs a virus scan on all attachments.
YouTube has duplicate content/copyright content detection systems.They simply don't see the "Ruby Repository" as a priority and gave you a lame excuse, Chris.
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I'm sure its a bit of that. But I think it comes from higher ups than just the SU development team - I think. The SU team is part of Google, but they do not necessarily get all the Google love that Google has to offer. They are a pretty small team.
All of Google's extra resources are going into Wave right anyhow
Chris
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Admittedly, an SVN-based repository is not without its own challenges; there is a learning curve for the administrators as well as the plugin authors, not to mention the end-users. As much as it a success with WordPress, it's not exclusively used by all plugin developers, either. Thanks for the links and comments, everyone.
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