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      youemailme
      last edited by

      Success! For some reason, when I copied and pasted the ImaginationVisualizer folder and .rb, the pasted folder didn't contain all the files and folders in the origin location. So I copied the contents of the origin folder and pasted them into the destination folder, which included the iv_localization file that the load error kept citing. Well, there went THIS day! Thanks again for your help.....

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        ZahariStoyanov
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        @willanie said:

        Hi pilou,

        Im pretty sure the original request was related to layering with an alpha channel but until the person chimes back it remains a mystery.

        Your diagram is very neat. What software do you use to make such illustrations ... sketchup?

        Also the cast shadow toggle is an interesting hidden gem in Visualizer which can be used to emit light from geometry in a limited fashion. It can take quite a while to render a noise free image. Here is a test image.

        Dude, I've been wondering how to create light sources for quite a while now ๐Ÿ˜„ Thanks for the tip!

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          ct200224
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          Hey, I'm having a lot of trouble locating Visualizer plugins on my SketchUp.... It doesn't seem to be showing up at all. Here's a picture of my plugins folder in SketchUp 2015 with Visualizer installed:
          http://puu.sh/pZQ0t.png
          at path /Users/[yourname]/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp
          SketchUp 2016 folder (w/o visualizer, duh):
          http://puu.sh/pZQ5X.png
          at path /Users/[yourname]/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2016/SketchUp
          Can someone help me at least locate the file?

          Maybe someone could just upload the files so that I can manually download them? Please?

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            driven
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            @ct200224 said:

            Hey, I'm having a lot of trouble locating Visualizer plugins on my SketchUp.... It doesn't seem to be showing up at all.

            if you run this in 'Ruby Console' it will move a copy for you into the v16 User/Library...

            If you read through the thread, you should have seen that the v15 path is for the HD/Library...

            v15_folder = "/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/ImaginationVisualizer"
            v15_extension = v15_folder + '.rb'
            
            v16_folder = File.expand_path("~") + v15_folder.sub('5', '6')
            v16_extension = v16_folder + '.rb'
            
            command = 'ditto ' + v15_folder.inspect + ' ' + v16_folder.inspect + ' && ' + \
            'ditto ' + v15_extension.inspect + ' ' + v16_extension.inspect
            
            system(command)
            

            john

            learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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              Fred*1
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              Hello

              I'm still trying to install Visualizer 1.3 on a Mac running El Capitan 10.11.5 with SketchUp v. 16.1.1451

              Can anyone give me step-by-step instructions? Or point me to some?

              Thanks!

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                driven
                last edited by

                Visualizer will not install in SketchUp v16 without tricking it to do so...

                temporarily renaming SketchUp 2016 folder in Finder to SketchUp 2015 will allow the download to make the the v15 files...

                once downloaded, change the name back and run the ruby code posted in the post above...

                john

                learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                  Fred*1
                  last edited by

                  Thanks, driven, for this help. I find, though, that I don't have a folder called "SketchUp 2016" on my Mac. Do you mean in the applications?

                  I had SU 8 until now and recently upgraded to SU 2016, in case that makes a difference.

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                    Fred*1
                    last edited by

                    Quick clarification: the folder SketchUp is in on my Mac is just called "SketchUp".

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                      driven
                      last edited by

                      Applications/SketchUp 2016 is the one I refer too...

                      john

                      learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                        Fred*1
                        last edited by

                        Got it. Thanks!

                        I was able to install it. Thanks for your help!

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                          willanie
                          last edited by

                          Hi Fred,

                          Just so its clear, because I didnt think it was possible. You managed(with John's help) to get Visualizer installed on a Mac with only Sketchup2016 installed.

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                            Fred*1
                            last edited by

                            Hi willanie

                            Yes, that's correct, and I was glad to see that Visualizer works fairly quickly on my MacBook Pro Retina 13" 2014, with 2.8 GHz Intel Core i5 and 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM.

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                              ste7ana
                              last edited by

                              Does anyone know if there is a 32bit Visualizer version available? Thanks

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                                willanie
                                last edited by

                                There is no 32bit Visualizer version

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                                  ste7ana
                                  last edited by

                                  ๐Ÿ˜ž thanks willanie

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                                    tmt0009
                                    last edited by

                                    Hello,

                                    I have installed Visualizer 1.3 and it works with 2015 (on MAC OS). However there are two issues.

                                    The first, is that anytime I close out of the program while modeling it generates a crash report.

                                    The second issue is that it doesn't appear in the Library/Application Support/SketchUp2015/SketchUp/Plugins folder which means I can't copy the Visualizer folder or the ruby file over to the SketchUp 2016.

                                    Anyone have any ideas? Anything would help. Thanks in advance.

                                    T.

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                                      ct200224
                                      last edited by

                                      @driven: Thank you! Thank you so much! It's now up and running nicely!

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                                        AristosOntwerp
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                                        Hi Pilou,
                                        Quoi faire, si je n'ai pas 2015 comme voi de migrer. J'ai une installation frais de 2016 et installer Visualizer c'est impossible (Vous n'avez pas SketchUp 2013, 2014 ou 2015).
                                        Est-ce que tu a un trick pour cela aussi?
                                        Merci en avance,
                                        Aristos

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                                          AristosOntwerp
                                          last edited by

                                          Hi,

                                          Does something like that work on Windows 7 as well? I tried with renaming the 64-bit program directory from SketchUp 2016 in SketchUp 2015 - but that was apparently too easy... Still the message: You need 2013, 2014 or 2015....

                                          Aristos

                                          @driven said:

                                          Visualizer will not install in SketchUp v16 without tricking it to do so...

                                          temporarily renaming SketchUp 2016 folder in Finder to SketchUp 2015 will allow the download to make the the v15 files...

                                          once downloaded, change the name back and run the ruby code posted in the post above...

                                          john

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                                            willanie
                                            last edited by

                                            Im pretty sure you must at least install 2015 with windows OS.
                                            Here is a link to sketchup forum posting for getting 2015 Make.

                                            Link Preview Image
                                            Link to download SketchUp 2015 Make

                                            hello everyone, does anyone have a link to download sketchup make ? i kept searching but only found sketchup 2015 Pro.

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                                            SketchUp Community (forums.sketchup.com)

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