Developer needed to maintain Visualizer for Sketchup !!

Rich O Brien · 23 Dec 2016, 11:46

@thomthom said:

derei: did you ask them if they'd be interesting in open sourcing it?
For SU2017 the only change required should be to recompile the binary for Ruby 2.2.

They said they have proprietary code, so for that reason they wouldn't open source it. But from what I could understand, as long as their rights are preserved, they have no problem in letting someone to maintain the program (i guess an NDA or something will have to be signed)... so the one that would volunteer to make Visualizer work again should only release the compiled version, not the source.

Can you pass on the contact details?

derei · 23 Dec 2016, 17:19

@rich o brien said:

Can you pass on the contact details?

I will send the email address as private message to you.

Cheers!

thomthom · 23 Dec 2016, 22:41

Since I'm part of the SketchUp team I'm not sure if that complicates things legal-wise. Otherwise I'd offer to see how much it'd be to recompile.

thomthom · 23 Dec 2016, 22:42

I wonder if the proprietary part is confined to compiled code. Maybe that could be built as a static library and the Ruby code and Ruby C Extension layer could be open sourced?

driven · 23 Dec 2016, 23:58

@thomthom said:

I wonder if the proprietary part is confined to compiled code.

there's an app/exe that uses an installer to inject both an extension and a compiled swig plugin...

the extension is encrypted but seems to supply the GUI and access to the .bundle

the swig .bundle uses objc on a mac and I guess it a bridge to the app...

that's the property bit I believe they wish to protect...

john

ericschimel · 12 Feb 2017, 21:58

Any luck on this? I'd love to see this working again!

pilou · 12 Feb 2017, 23:29

Why not download an old version of su ?

ericschimel · 13 Feb 2017, 01:03

I do all of my work in 2017 Pro, I have 2015 installed still, but this is for quick renderings, having to save down and open in an older version is not only a pain, but there's stuff in 2017 SketchUp that I'll lose by going to 2015

pilou · 13 Feb 2017, 02:24

You can use one version for the speed rendering (2015 with Visualizer)
and another one 2017 in the same time for the modeling!

ericschimel · 13 Feb 2017, 12:45

For me I cannot open some of my models in 2015 anymore. Plus, 2015 will be starting to get deprecated soon anyway so it's not sustainable...