Using Render Plus products with SketchUp 2013

Al Hart · 21 May 2013, 21:15

SketchUp 2013 has been released

The Free version of SketchUp has been renamed to SketchUp Make and is no longer available for Commercial Use.

SketchUp Pro is for Commercial Use

Render Plus Add-ons

To use IRender nXt, ArielVision, or other Render Plus Add-ons with SketchUp 2013, you will need to download the latest version from:

Downloads

It will automatically install into the new SketchUp Plugins folder.

Older Versions and other Add-ons

If your license is over 12 months old, you will need to renew it in order to download and use the latest version with SketchUp 2013.

See: Renewals

If you do not renew your license and have a an older version you want to use, or for any Add-on which does not have a new version on the Download Page (ME17 or later), you can copy things from the SketchUp 7 or SketchUp 8 Plugins folder to the new Plugins folder:

Navigate to the old SketchUp Plugins folder

Probably C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins, or

     C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins

Copy Win32API.so to the new Plugins page

Probably C:\Program Files (x86)\SketchUp\SketchUp 2013\Plugins

or C:\Program Files\SketchUp\SketchUp 2013\Plugins

Copy the entire Render Plus subfolder to the new Plugins page:
Copy the .rb files for any add-on you want to copy over:

ArielVision_loader.rb
IRender_Nxt_loader.rb
NprTools_loader.rb
Rp3DPdf_loader.rb
RpTools_loader.rbRpTreeMaker_loader.rb
RpWallMaker_loader.rb
SpaceDesign_loader.rb

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