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    Toposhaper fails installing on SketchUp 2026

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    • Dave RD Offline
      Dave R
      last edited by

      Illustrating what TIG described.

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      • Epix3DE Offline
        Epix3D
        last edited by

        Sorry,- but still not showing up...

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        • TIGT Offline
          TIG Moderator
          last edited by TIG

          This is a very strange issue...
          You haven't explicitly said it but I assume you've installed the other two extensions that I listed.
          If you download a brand new copy of TopoShaper RBZ from our PluginStore and manually install it with the Extension-Manager do you still get the installation error message ?
          https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=TopoShaper
          I just installed it and it's fine, BUT I did notice its reported as 'unsigned' after the install. so perhaps @fredo6 needs to fix that.
          Also, if your Extension-Manager Loading-Policy is set to anything other than 'Unrestricted' then that might be causing issues ?

          TIG

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          • fredo6F Offline
            fredo6
            last edited by

            @TIG
            This is strange that the rbz is unsigned. Is that the only one of my plugins?
            I can re-release it to see if this changes anything.

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            • TIGT Offline
              TIG Moderator
              last edited by TIG

              @fredo6
              Everything else seems signed OK.
              So something seems to have gone wrong with the TopoShaper RBZ ?
              But for me it load OK when 'Unrestricted' so it's not faulty - just something have changed within it to mess with the checksum ??

              TIG

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              • fredo6F Offline
                fredo6
                last edited by

                Ok. I will republish it....

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                • Epix3DE Offline
                  Epix3D
                  last edited by

                  Hi guys. Just for an update; Reinstalled SU2026, downloaded and reinstalled fredo6 with Sketchucation manager, downloaded and reinstalled Toposhaper. No change...

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                  • fredo6F Offline
                    fredo6
                    last edited by

                    I just repackaged the rbz of TopoShaper, published as v1.7b

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                    • TIGT Offline
                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by TIG

                      @fredo6
                      Sadly this new version 'v1.7b' [it's actually v2.7b ??] also reports as having an invalid signature in the Extension-Manager.
                      So whatever you've done hasn't fixed this weirdness.
                      v2.7b_invalid.png

                      TIG

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                      • Dave RD Offline
                        Dave R @TIG
                        last edited by

                        @TIG it shows as signed on my machine.
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                        • TIGT Offline
                          TIG Moderator @Dave R
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                          @Dave-R
                          This is even more weird !

                          TIG

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                          • TIGT Offline
                            TIG Moderator
                            last edited by

                            I did a complete spring-clean removing everything TopoShaper and manually installed the RB & subfolder again from its RBZ.
                            On a restart it then reported as 'signed'.
                            This meant that something was different from the signed copy ?
                            Checking the previously installed set I found that all of the RBE files had RBS duplicates - dating back to the early versions 6 years ago - but because the RBE load in preference to the matching RBS files they should not break the checksum for the signing. And with those duplicates removed it would not raise an issue either.
                            BUT somewhere in the past [about two tears ago] a full copy of the subfolder had been created within itself.
                            Because its files aren't getting referred to or loaded by the 'real' files I wouldn't expect the problem.
                            BUT with the duplicated subfolder removed all is reported as signed and OK - and IF I add that subfolder back in the signing breaks again ! So it IS the culprit.
                            I don't know where the duplicate subfolder came from, it's not in the older RBZs I have but the copies I have probably don't go back far enough.

                            In case @epix3d has a similar issue can I suggest the following house-keeping.
                            Close SketchUp.
                            Open your Plugins folder and find Fredo6_TopoShaper.rb and Fredo6_TopoShaper subfolder.
                            Move them out of Plugins.
                            In SketchUp use the ExtensionStore to install the latest version of TopoShaper.
                            Restart SketchUp and see if it loads and reports as signed in the Extension-Manager dialog,
                            Obviously if there are any error messages please let us know.
                            For completeness can you also check the old subfolder you set aside, to see if it contains any RBS files AND a duplicate subfolder copy of itself inside it...

                            TIG

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                            • Epix3DE Offline
                              Epix3D
                              last edited by Epix3D

                              Hi guys, -funny part is I have an identical machine at the office and it works fine ; )
                              However I have more issues with my original laptop, - something with the computer cannot find the GPU hardware anymore (Geforce RTX4090) so I have to repair it.
                              I will look into it later when this is done.
                              Thank you so far.

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