Sketchucation Tools 5.0...

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When you say 'this' please be clear. The RBZ for the SketchUcation toolset which also control the licensing and ExtensionStore dialog etc is easily installed using the native Extension Manager > Install... button. Restart SketchUp afterwards to sync everything. It appears in its own submenu under Extensions and there is also a Toolbar.
LibFredo6 is not needed for the toolset, but it is vital to all of Fredo's extensions.
If you have not installed SketchUp itself 'properly' then you do not need to Uninstall and Reinstall it, instead close SketchUp, then find the SketchUp Installer's exe file in your Downloads folder [or download a fresh copy]. Select the exe file's icon, right-click > context-menu > Run as administrator - a dialog should open, accept the 'Repair' option, this will reset all of the permissions properly so extensions can install and save preferences etc. In a few rare case with some of Fredo's stuff a further manual deletion of a badly permission-ed subfolder etc is occasionally necessary, but let's cross that bridge as we come to it !

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Version 5.0.7 is available soon watch this space.
Use v5.0.6 for now...

[B2Pi]

Because I was dropped on my head as a small baby, I am utterly unable to find a way to turn off the sketchucation tools menubar. There are two toggles that appear to be correct on the menu, but neither works permanently. I'm sure uninstalling it would work, but that does seem a bit drastic?

I'm at a bit of a loss as to why it doesn't work like every other plugin toolbar

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The toolbar can be switched on/off in the standard view > toolbars section.

Also there are 2 toggles in the menu,:

1. to switch off the toolbar [and on] AND ignore any subsequent updates-available notification [i.e. do not reopen].
2. to switch off the toolbar [and on] BUT to reopen the toolbar automatically if there's an updates-available notification.

[B2Pi]

Here are my steps:

1. Start Sketchup (in this case, my daily driver is 2023)
2. Notice the ExtensionStore toolbar.
3. From the extensions Menu, select Toggle toolbar ON/OFF 'off' update notification turns 'on'
4. The toolbar is gone
5. Exit Sketchup
6. Restart. The toolbar is there again
7. From the extensions Menu, select Toggle toolbar ON/OFF 'off' update notification ignored
8. Acknowledge the modal popup "Toolbar button automatic Update marker may show after restart..."
9. Select the same menu item again, and the toolbar is gone
10. Exit Sketchup and restart

You probably wouldn't be surprised to know that the (@*!!@$/#^) toolbar is back again.

I can't be the only one who just doesn't WANT the toolbar. Really, I can start up the extension any time I want from the menu.

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I have just retested it and I do see an issue.
With it set to ignore updates it's still reopening the toolbar on restart.
This is not correct.
I look into a fix...

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@b2pi
I have fixed the issue and there is already an updated version 'in the pipeline' - watch for its release...

[B2Pi]

Thanks so very much (it's good to know that I'm still somewhat vaguely sane)

[Rich O Brien]

v5.0.7 released.

• Improvement to licensing system to handle networked devices
• Improvement to toolbar handling
• Minor bugfixes

[kmead]

This is likely a problem resulting from working for a large, risk averse corporation with an IT department locking things down.

I am running the latest shipping version of Sketchup on the latest version of MacOS.

When I use SKTools to access the SK plugins store to download plugins, I get an error message. I can't find a place on MacOS to allow Sketchup/Sketchucation to be able to do so and the Sketchup Plugins Manager doesn't download plugins from Sketchucation. All around it is painful where prior to ver 5 of the Sketchucation plugin I basically ignored the Sketchup Plugin Manager.

Any tips on how to get 5.07 to download and install plugins like it once did?

Many thanks.

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@kmead

I'm sure @rich-o-brien and @gábor will chip in with more detailed advice - but in the meantime, your IT guys need to add sketchucation.com etc to their firewall white list etc ?
Remember you can always make a note of the extension in the ExtensionStore and download the very same one's RBZ from the PluginStore, then manually install it using either the native Extensions Manager > Install-Extension method, or the Extensions > SketchUcation submenu item Archive Installer... [which also installs ZIP as well as RBZ].

[Rich O Brien]

@kmead
Looks like an overzealous security policy. Hard to say for sure.

It’s a holiday here today but I’ll chat with Gabor about it tomorrow.