Installing Store 2.6
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Ok, I have decided to take my daughter's laptop to Base Camp. Don't wish to lose the work laptop. Her HD went out and I replaced the HD and did a new install of Windows Home Premium.
So, I wanted to install 2014 on the laptop. I did that, no problems. So then I wanted to install store so I could use the bundle option to set up this 2014 like my 2014 on the deck top.
OK, so if you don't have the store installed, how do you install the store?
This is how I did it. I downloaded the plugin. Now it is in your downloads, you copy and paste the file to your 2014 plugin folder, way down in the deep depths of the computer. Now, you have a RBZ file. Now I know I can change the RBZ to a Zip and extract. However when you do that the files are not loaded in the correct locations. Re-arranged the files in the correct location. Have store working now.
So, I got it done. However, if you wish for the RBZ file to be easy and fool proof to install, it looks to me, they should be someway to install the "store" on a brand new setup without going though all this.
Or, have I missed something?
Ken, puzzled in SC
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SketchUp has 2 ways you could have installed the .rbz.
First, in the Preferences > Extensions dialog there is the "Install Extension" button. You browse to the downloaded file and select it to install.
The second way would be for SketchUcation to make the Store plugin available in the Extensions Warehouse...
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Option 2 was done but refused
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Jim and Rich
Thanks for the reply. I did find install the extensions option, however, it was at a directory which I knew I didn't want to install those files. However, I didn't think about changing to another directory. So my bad.
Re-installed the "store" from the extension install option. It did work. Now I just need to clean up my plugin directory, as I have a directory I need to remove.
And thanks for the replies.
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As Jim says - there is no need you this depth of complexity.
Indeed there are far safer ways...So, just download the tool's v2.6.0 RBZ to your Downloads folder [or Desktop], then use SketchUp's Preferences > Extensions > Install button...
Find the RBZ, select it and it'll be automatically extracted and all of its contents installed into the correct Plugins folder for you [it will always install things into the User's default Plugins folder - irrespective of where the RBZ itself is located].
Now just restart SketchUp and open the SketchUcation Plugin Store dialog - log-in [once only] as yours SCF alter-ego...
Then use My Setup > Bundles to list all of your installed files for all computers or SketchUp versions where you have used the PluginStore ...
To ensure other computers are included in the list you'll need to at least open the PluginStore v2.6.0 on them once: then your installed plugins for that computer/version are listed in subsequent Bundle drop-downs...
You can then use the Bundle data to bulk-AutoInstall matching sets of Plugins on the new computer...SketchUcation is not magic
so while it might know what you have installed for each computer/version it has to filter the list to include only plugins available from the SketchUcation Plugin Store itself...
That means that a few Plugins that are only available from the Extensions Warehouse or Smustard or Didier's Depot will not be listed...
You will need to manually get/install those yourself - although the EWH does have tools to help you see your previous downloads etc if you login and look for them... -
@rich o brien said:
Option 2 was done but refused
And this was not because of 'non-compliance issues', like the loader rb naming doesn't match the subfolder's name [which could be easily resolved], but because the entire project was seen as a 'rival' to the Extension Warehouse itself - which of course it predated...
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@unknownuser said:
but because the entire project was seen as a 'rival' to the Extension Warehouse itself - which of course it predated...
and outperformed...
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