Housebuilder

John Sayers

Here you go Kris.

Krisidious

Awesome John, never know when it might come in handy.

Robxm

Cannot install HB on Mac (OS 10.6.8) in SU8.01.
I have downloaded HB folder on my desktop containing garage_tour.skp (no model in scenes), HouseBuilder.rb and HouseBuilderTool.rb

I open SketchUp > Preferences >Extensions and Install extension.
I navigate to the HB folder > open and all contents are GRAYED out preventing installation.

I am thinking I should manually install HB and I cannot find any SU plugin folder to place HB into. There is no SU plugin folder in the folder I purchased from SketchUp and I cannot find any SU plugin folder on my Mac.

Any help is greatly appreciated. The HB plugin looks enormously useful.

Dave R

I guess you haven't read through this thread. The correct installation process has been give multiple times here.

From your description it sounds like you downloaded the ZIP file but it got unzipped automatically by your OS. You really ought to set it so that doesn't happen. It would make things easier.

Install Extension requires that the extension be packaged as a zip file whose file-extension is changed to .rbz. The reason Install Extension didn't work for you is you have no .rbz file to point it at.

Try again.

As for the Plugins folder, in current versions of SketchUp it does exist but it is in a hidden directory. There's no need for you to access it directly if you have files structured correctly and install them properly. Your profile indicates you're still using SketchUp 6. Is that correct?

HouseBuilder_extension.rbz

Robxm

Thank you Dave for the HouseBuilder_extension.rbz file.
I was wasting time with the rb files and the rbz installed and worked in SU8 after reopening.
HB appear in my Draw menu.

Dave R

Most plugins/extensions anymore are .rbz files and can be installed automatically with the Sketchucation Plugin Store (and the Extension Warehouse if you ever decide to update SketchUp to the present) but there are some out there still that will come as ZIP files. It would probably be worth your time to disable auto-unzipping so that zip files remain intact when you download them.

jjmormon

Does someone have the US version for HouseBuilder they could put up for download? I'll throw you a few $$$

Dave R

Here you go. That'll be $10.

You could have just looked three posts up from yours.

gphillips

I successfully installed the Housebuilder metric extension using the rbz file provided on this thread, and it works OK so far (Thanks) EXCEPT:
When selecting lumber size using the drop down menu arrow (e.g. for walls or roofs), the selection arrow must be held down, not clicked, or the options disappear. A bit of a nuisance.
I wonder do other versions do this (e.g. Imperial version)?

TIG

This is a known annoyance of the UI.inputbox drop-down list.
It can be overcome.
If you know the start number for the size...
Click in the drop-down box to highlight it - on long lists you can't see all entries.
If your size is off the list...
Start to type in the start number.
The list selection jumps down to it highlight the first item starting with that number.
Use the up/down arrows to move to the desired size which will now be nearby.

The only other way is to make a webdialog to do this in html/js, but that's another story

gudio83

click and hold mice left button when selecting lumber size. thats it.
It will be great someone to add some new features in this plug-in (like add OSB / divide by panels...). its best plug-in for timber constructions for now. However it have many issues with windows and doors, but i make it manually.

Kiwi007

Thanks so much!!! This took me hours to solve - and then found your solution, wish you could upload this to the Ruby library - I am sure it would save a lot of pain for a lot of people.

gudio83

it's on the server. See page 1 of this post

TIG

I made a separate thread linking to the metric and imperial versions - go here - http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=564448#p564448

Redranger

@dave r said:

I guess you haven't read through this thread. The correct installation process has been give multiple times here.

From your description it sounds like you downloaded the ZIP file but it got unzipped automatically by your OS. You really ought to set it so that doesn't happen. It would make things easier.

Install Extension requires that the extension be packaged as a zip while whose file-extension is changed to .rbz. The reason Install Extension didn't work for you is you have no .rbz file to point it at.

Try again.

As for the Plugins folder, in current versions of SketchUp it does exist but it is in a hidden directory. There's no need for you to access it directly if you have files structured correctly and install them properly. Your profile indicates you're still using SketchUp 6. Is that correct?

I will say there was some amusement to reading through the entire 3 pages of comments.......but it wasn't till this post that I figured out the issue I was running into. Ended up being the auto unzip in safari preferences.

anyhow thank you everyone for the good laugh and the end result of me finally getting to use this sweet plugin!

chate

Just installed HB V1.2 edited and fix by TIG,and it works fine. Thank you very much. The Imperial version can be download from http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=188

Dave R

@chate said:

Just installed HB V1.2 edited and fix by TIG,and it works fine. Thank you very much. The Imperial version can be download from http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=188

No! The imperial version of Housebuilder at the link you provided has not been updated. The updated version is available in this thread right here.

TIG

No, No. NO !
As Dave says get the updated versions from these links http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=570235#p570235
Or even more directly http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=564448#p564448

You can take a horse to water but a pencil must be lead...

chate

Sorry for the confusion!

Drumsetc

Guys, I followed the above link after assuring I had the up to date version of Sketchup Make.
The install extensions link fro "Preferences" found and installed the plugin fine.
I'm on a Mac, OSX 10.9.3

Thank you for all the help folks...
Shawn