Trouble loading plugins

jlourenco

I am running Sketchup 7.1 on two machines, Mac OS X one Leopard and the other on Snow Leopard. First off, the Snow Leopard install has lots of problems. Installing plugins is a close second place to just getting performance issues on a brand new iMac Core i7 with 8GB of RAM.

I have tried to install SubSmooth and Bool Tools (which I bought from smustard) I can't get either plugin to appear on either a Core2 duo iMac running 10.5.8 or an Core i7 running 10.6.

Here is what I have tried so far:
I have pulled out all other extensions and tried installing only one plugin at a time to see if any would show up and I can't get these two and several other free ones to load either.

I can get some plugins to work on both machines, but not these two. Also Freeform Distort is wonky on both systems. Does anyone else have these issues with plugins like I do? Are there any solutions? Thanks in advance.

jeff hammond

do you have podium installed by any chance?

bool tools & sub/smooth have complications with podium but it can be sorted out..

jlourenco

@unknownuser said:

do you have podium installed by any chance?

bool tools & sub/smooth have complications with podium but it can be sorted out..

I don't have podium. Here are the plugins which I have tried that also just don't show up in Sketchup on either Mac:
-btm sculpt tools
-bool tools
-subdivide and smooth
-extrude tools
-round corner
-clf shape bender
-draw helix
-offset
-tools on surface
-unfold tool
-Fredo Scale
-sketchy bevel
-sketchy FFD (seems to have trouble working like expected)
-soap skin bubble (works only if i force it to load using Plugin Ruby resources)

There are more plugins which will not load either. It seems to be about 70% won't load. The other 30% show up in Sketchup, but only half of those seems to work right.

OS X's Sketchup has two plugins folders that I could find. I tried both. I tried just adding one plugin at a time. I tried repairing permissions. I tried the trial pro version, I tried praying to the dark Gods of 3D…okay i didn't really try that last one, but I'm really stuck—maybe i should.

I do have some plugins that DO work:
-curve stitcher
-weld
-bezier
-tube along path
-FFD (kinda works, i can't load any toolbars for it only right click options work)
-Soap Skin Bubbles (has to be force loaded by Ruby Resources plugin—each time i launch Sketchup)
-uuhhhhh… i guess thats all I am able to use right now.

This is my contextual menu (right click)

draw menu

plugins menu

jeff hammond

there's one plugin folder you should be concerned with and that is:

MacintoshHD/ Library/ Application Support/ Google SketchUp 7/ SketchUp/ plugins

i'm assuming the other plugin folder you found is inside the app itself (Applications/ Google SketchUp 7/ SketchUp.app/ Contents/ PlugIns)... stay away from there with ruby plugins as that's where google puts all of the exporters..

So there are a few things that could be going wrong here.. most likely is an incorrect install or maybe you're just not turning the plugins on after a correct install..

let's try subdivide and smooth first.. the download comes in as a zip.. unzip and you will have 1 folder (i believe it's called 'subsmooth' but i could be wrong as it's been a while since i bought it).. open that folder and you will have two files -- a folder named Subsmooth and a file named subsmooth_loader.rb... place those two files inside the plugins folder at the path shown above..
the install will look like this:

click pic for larger view
*note- the folder named Subsmooth should contain a few gif icons as well as a .rb and .rbs file.. leave those inside.

the second thing that you might not be doing is activating the plugin within sketchup:..
launch sketchup then go SketchUp-> Preferences-> Extensions and click the box called Subdivide and Smooth which will turn the toolbar on (if it's not already on when launching SU)

try that and report back

here's a link to post i made last week helping with installing FredoScale on mac..
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=229326#p229326

good luck

chrisjk

Just to add a small rider to Jeff's excellent reply. SU only needs one plugins folder and that is the one here:-

MacintoshHD/ Library/ Application Support/ Google SketchUp 7/ SketchUp/ plugins

I suuggest you move all plugins from the other user level folder to the one above and remove the user level plugins folder completely.