Sketchucation Tools 5.0...

[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.

[TIG]

@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.

[Gábor]

@kmead Does your Ruby console show any error messages when you try to install?

Could you try to Copy/Paste this script into your Ruby Console and press enter?

require 'open-uri'

url = "https://pluginstore.sketchucation.com/downloadtest.txt"
save_path = File.join(Sketchup.temp_dir, "downloadtest.txt")

begin
  # URI.open fetches the file, IO.copy_stream streams it safely to disk
  IO.copy_stream(URI.open(url), save_path)
  puts "✅ Success! File saved to: #{save_path}"
rescue => e
  puts "❌ Error downloading file: #{e.message}"
end

Do you get Success or Error result?