[Plugin] SketchUcation Tools
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Not sure about Win8 exactly but on all recent/earlier flavors of Windows these are the fix steps...
By default Windows sets limited permissions to all subfolders within the 'Program Files' folder tree - irrespective of your status as an admin etc.
This compromises manually adding, or later on, 'managing' Plugins in the main Plugins folder in all PC versions of SketchUp [typically v8/v2013, but hopefully some future SketchUp version will relocate the Plugins folder to a more 'user friendly' location
]You need to reset permissions etc.
First close SketchUp.
Do the next steps as an admin [if you are not one give yourself that power in the Users Control Panel]...
Find the main Plugins folder.
If your Plugins folder has a 'custom icon' please remove it - having one can subtly compromise that folder's permissions, even when they appear to report as being 'FULL' !
Select its icon > Right-click > Context-menu > Properties > Customize > Change Icon > Restore Default...Now fix its permissions...
Select its icon > Right-click > Context-menu > Properties > Security > Edit...
Give FULL read/write permissions [top tick-box in listing] to every user and group listed in the dialog.
[Note that is not just 'Everyone' which might be one of the Group names]
Apply/OK to save changes.Next, find the file SketchUp.exe [which is in the folder that contains the Plugins folder]
Select its icon > Right-click > Context-menu > Properties > Compatibility
Tick the check-box near the bottom 'Always Run as Administrator'... [or similar wording]
Apply/OK to save changes.Open SketchUp and now try Managing some Plugins...
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Thanks Tig,
I stopped at the permissions edit stage and all is now fine. I realise my mistake was thinking selecting full permission for the top tab, (all applications packages),was going to do the trick when I needed to do that for all the listings as you suggested.
By the way; thanks for your great plugins that I'm using - coords tag, height from datum and triangulate points,etc. they're really usefull.
Cheers, Gary.
@tig said:
Not sure about Win8 exactly but on all recent/earlier flavors of Windows these are the fix steps...
By default Windows sets limited permissions to all subfolders within the 'Program Files' folder tree - irrespective of your status as an admin etc.
This compromises manually adding, or later on, 'managing' Plugins in the main Plugins folder in all PC versions of SketchUp [typically v8/v2013, but hopefully some future SketchUp version will relocate the Plugins folder to a more 'user friendly' location ]You need to reset permissions etc.
First close SketchUp.
Do the next steps as an admin [if you are not one give yourself that power in the Users Control Panel]...
Find the main Plugins folder.
If your Plugins folder has a 'custom icon' please remove it - having one can subtly compromise that folder's permissions, even when they appear to report as being 'FULL' !
Select its icon > Right-click > Context-menu > Properties > Customize > Change Icon > Restore Default...Now fix its permissions...
Select its icon > Right-click > Context-menu > Properties > Security > Edit...
Give FULL read/write permissions [top tick-box in listing] to every user and group listed in the dialog.
[Note that is not just 'Everyone' which might be one of the Group names]
Apply/OK to save changes.Next, find the file SketchUp.exe [which is in the folder that contains the Plugins folder]
Select its icon > Right-click > Context-menu > Properties > Compatibility
Tick the check-box near the bottom 'Always Run as Administrator'... [or similar wording]
Apply/OK to save changes.Open SketchUp and now try Managing some Plugins...
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I've installed 2.0 and any edits I do to the list, particularly sets, are not accepted. If I make changes to the loaded/disabled plugins, then close the manager and re-open, the previous settings are re-applied.
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@ben ritter said:
I've installed 2.0 and any edits I do to the list, particularly sets, are not accepted. If I make changes to the loaded/disabled plugins, then close the manager and re-open, the previous settings are re-applied.
Please read the previous few posts about setting your Plugins folders security permission up properly so that you can manage your Plugins [much of this is PC oriented BUT MAC is similar - just set FULL permissions from from the 'More Info' dialog [ensuring the option is chosen to trickle the changes down to apply to its contents]]. It's easiest to set FULL read/write permission for all users listed... Also if you are on a PC setup SketchUp.exe to always run as admin etc... Without FULL permission you will not be able to make enduring changes to the state of your Plugins...You haven't told us your OS or SUp version in your user-profile [it's there for a reason...]
However, I guess it's MAC with probably v8 ?
On a MAC you probably need to use the toggle option to see the hidden Library folders like Plugins...
If you use 'More Info' on the HD Plugins folder icon to give yourself FULL read/write permissions, then you must choose to apply this also to all of the contained folders and subfolders etc... It's an option ?
I guess it's this... because if you could not add new files to the Plugins folder at all you would be warned ?
BUT if you have left its original contents as read-only then you can't manage them ! You can probably manage new additions because they'll take the folder's current properties
So reset the FULL permissions with the option to apply that to its contents as well...
On v2013 I think the MAC defaults to the user's Plugins folder, which already has FULL permissions, so there shouldn't be an issue with adding new files OR managing any of them - however if you are using the HD Plugins the permission issue applied just like v8.
On PCs, because of Windows protective nature of anything inside the Program Files tree, the Plugins folder always needs changing to FULL read/write, but by default these new permissions filter down and should automatically apply to the folder's contents too...
Hence my MAC+v8 guess ??
Please let us know what the issue is/was, or if you need further help... -
TIG,
Thanks. I'll look at my permissions.
Using Windows 7 Professional, SU 8.
Ben
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The little check box that appears when you select "My Plugins": Shouldn't it say "Check to show plugins that need updating"?
If it shows only "updated plugins", of what value is that? -
It is meant to mean, 'Check [my-plugins] for [available] updates'.
If you do check it, then it does indeed show any updates that are available for 'my-[your!]-plugins'
But I know what you mean... Refinements are being looked at anyway...
The way it displays 'my-plugins' will hopefully get even more helpful soon - perhaps showing every plugin you have ever downloaded [which might include files you have subsequently deleted or perhaps have not yet installed on this current PC], the plugins you currently have 'installed' on this current PC [but enabled and disabled ones, but excluding 'uninstalled' ones] i.e. omitting those you have subsequently deleted etc, and then which of those plugins have updates available for you... -
Text changed to "Check for updates". After cache erase you should see the change.
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After clicking auto install for some plugins, they do not appear under my plugins tab but do appear under my sketchucation store > My plugins. How do I get them to appear/work. Thanks.
windows 7, SU2013
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Not all plugins are under the Plugins menu. Some are under Edit, Tools, Draw, File, Window....
It really depends on what you installed.
Read the 'More Info' page for each tool...Also you need to have permissions to write to Plugins folder which is covered ad nauseam in this thread already.
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I cant seem to find the INSTALL EXTENSIONS button on the extensions tab in preferences. it just isn't there. I know I can manually install these but is there a follow guide for this?
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You need to upgrade SU version - at least the latest SU8 version - in order to have that button and the additional features like AutoInstall...
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It was introduced in SU 8 M2: http://sketchupdate.blogspot.de/2011/12/another-important-update-for-sketchup-8.html
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I'm using SU8 pro (8.0.16846) with Win7x64.
Now I can't install any plugin by SUPS v2.0.0 with autoinstall.
I check that it could't extended the download file in %TMP%\SCF, Actually there's a "t999" file with 0 byte in the extended folder %TMP%\t.
At last I tried to use the old version "v1.2.0", that's works fine.
I've never install this plugin and any plugin before
I can only provide this information and I really love this work.
This is a bug or my problem? -
Is there a way to logout my account from the plugin store through sketchup? I logged in using my credentials on more than one computer and I'd like to logout and have that user use his own account...
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@halroach said:
Is there a way to logout my account from the plugin store through sketchup? I logged in using my credentials on more than one computer and I'd like to logout and have that user use his own account...
That's maby clear the cookies of IE under Win.
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@user2 said:
I'm using SU8 pro (8.0.16846) with Win7x64.
Now I can't install any plugin by SUPS v2.0.0 with autoinstall.
I check that it couldn't extended the download file in %TMP%\SCF, Actually there's a "t999" file with 0 byte in the extended folder %TMP%\t.
At last I tried to use the old version "v1.2.0", that's works fine.
I've never install this plugin and any plugin before
I can only provide this information and I really love this work.
This is a bug or my problem?
Do you get any error messages or dialogs referring to this ?
If you have the Ruby Console open are there any messages ?Do you have a non-ASCII character in your user...temp path ?
Like an 'accented' letter.
The folder is:
C:\Users\**USERNAME**\AppData\Local\Temp\SCF
This will break many Ruby based tools on PCs that will use that folder path [at least until SketchUp starts to use a newer version of Ruby... but we must wait for some future update for that to happen!]
To check the 'temp/SCF' folder exists it writes a temp-file (t999) and does a File.exist?(t999) check to see if the folder is writable, but that returns false even if it exists when there's as accent in the folder path!Also please double check that you have FULL security permissions to the
../Local/Temp/SCF/AND../Local/SCF/folders - it should be set automatically, but you never know...So if the issue is that there's an accent in the path try a renamed user-account without it [or wait until SketchUp gets updated...] !?
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@halroach said:
Is there a way to logout my account from the plugin store through sketchup? I logged in using my credentials on more than one computer and I'd like to logout and have that user use his own account...
Each User on a computer has their own 'Users' account.
Each User logging into the PluginStore through the dialog is asked to login once only [they just have to be a current SCF member and enter a valid password]; subsequent changes to the member's password on the main SCF site will not affect the PluginStore dialog's login, provided they are still an SCF member.
Their acceptable login data is stored in an encrypted cookie file.
On a PC this is is stored separately for each User:
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\SCF\cookie.dat
WhereUSERNAMEis your PC-user login name...
Note that isAppDatafolder might be hidden from you - but you can change your 'Folder Options' settings so that then you'll see it...
If that cookie exists and it is found to be valid, then the user is auto-logged-in to the PluginStore dialog every time they open it.So, if another User has their own Users account they will also be prompted to login once, and your use of the PluginStore dialog will be treated quite separately from theirs - their cookie is stored separately from your cookie.
BUT if you must let someone else use your PC's User account [
why ?] and you want them to be able to login to the PluginStore dialog in their own right as another SCF-memeber, then you will need to 'disable' your own cookie.datfile... go to the 'SCF' folder given above and rename itYFcookie.datso the dialog's initial check will no longer see it...
Now anyone [including you!] who opens the PluginStore dialog will be prompted to login [once], and if the data given is acceptable, then a new encryptedcookie.datfile is made.To revert to your login... just rename the current
cookie.datasXXcookie.datand rename your oldYFcookie.datascookie.dat. When you restart the PluginStore dialog you will be logged in again. -
I'll have to take a vacation to go through that explanation...
The reason I used my login on another computer was so I could check out which plugins and extensions I have installed on my original computer...
Basically I was hoping I'll be able to "sync" all my plugins on all computers I am logged on.Bottom line:
- There should be a login/logout feature for the plugins store.
- Suggest an option to sync plugins in the cloud!? (Apple iCloud style) or at least something similar that will help me install the same plugins on a few computers. (I know of the dropbox option which is not very straightforward for the average user).
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