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      CalypsoArt
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      I'm a long time SU user and I'm trying to help a friend who is learning. I gave a her a few plugins that we put in the plugins folder. However, I'm not familiar with the MAC interface and I can't find how to access the plugins. There was no "Plugins" on the menu bar, and plugins that have icons are not visible. On my Win 7 machine plugin icons show up when the program opens. Where should I be looking.

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        Dave R
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        With SketchUp open, click on the SketchUp menu--to the left of File--then on Preferences>Extensions. Tick the boxes and you should be good to go.

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          TIG Moderator
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          To find the Plugins folder for this MAC SUp installation just type or copy+paste this into SUp-Menu > Window > Ruby-Console

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            Sketchup.find_support_file('Plugins')
            There are some pre-loaded 'examples/utility' scripts in Tools that are auto-loaded from there and need activating from Window > Preferences > Extensions.
            Any Plugins that you add should go in there or for complex zipped sets extract into there keeping any files that are in subfolders in the zip file in the same subfolders in Plugins etc... Read each script's instructions... Some Plugins also come as Extensions and will need a one off activation. Others might not appear in the Plugins menu but under perhaps the Draw or Tool menus, some have a Toolbar [activated under View > Toolbars] to run them either in addition to a menu item or sometimes as the only means of running them; whilst others only appear in the right-click context-menu when a suitable select has been made. A few others are 'helper files' - like 'progressbar.rb' - and only add functionality to other scripts whilst never appearing separately as themselves, or tools are used so rarely that you type a command into the Ruby Console to run them, rather than have any menu entries..........

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