Upgraded to windows 10 Pro
SU 2016 PRO (But same results with 2015 PRO)

I use a plugin called engineering toolbox. As soon as I open the extension there is a flicker and SU is GONE. No bugsplat. Nothing. just gone.

So I removed all of the plugins from the plugin folder. I went to the extension warehouse, browsed to the Engineering toolbox plugin in the warehouse and just going to the warehouse page for Engineering toolbox, in the extension warehouse, made SU disappear again.

So I tried other plugins pages in the warehouse. some came up fine and some cause Sketchup to just blink off. Skeng causes it to blink off too. As do others.

I reinstalled Sketchup 2015 and have the same results with it.

So what can be causing this behavior?

Any tips? Thoughts? Solutions?

thank you for your time.

m

SOLUTION

You guys can hammer out what change could be made to fix this issue but I got a reply from the folks at engineering toolbox.

When you click insert and nothing happens you can fix it by refreshing the page.

Right click in the page and select "refresh".

After that the insert will work.

Maybe this can be added to the plugin somehow?

But anyhow this gets us back to work.

Thank you everyone for your time!!

Mark Henry

When I try to "insert" and it refuses to insert I hit F5 right then, and then click "insert" again and it seems to work. It was weird. It seemed like it would do OK until I tried to insert a flange from the site. After a Flange was attempted it would quit working. At least that is how it seemed to me.

My advice would be try the F5 then click "Insert" again.

Thanks for your effort sir. You have gone above and beyond.
I have removed SU2014 its installation was an experiment.
I have removed the plugin and installed it with your modifications.
I open Ruby Console and then try the plug in.
Ruby Console shows nothing and plug in still refuses to "Insert"

I have meetings all morning. So I am going to let the IT guys continue at it from the aspect of javascript command being blocked..

Very Frustrated but thanks again for everything.

M

Yes it is something in the drawing causing the issue but why after it causes the issue does the plugin refuse to work in ANY SU drawing? no amount of shutting down or opening blank drawings will make it work after it fails in that drawing.
And Ruby sits there quiet as can be.

gotta be something blocking the javascript command from getting out. I dunno. Maybe I'm crazy.

@driven said:

@tig said:

Yer wot ?

sorry, I loaded his model, and ran the plugin and it would notinsert the selected item at my preselected location...
I tried some basic objects with 'Outliner' open, and found them 'inserted' at a position ocupied by a locked maker, after deleting that, I could insert the item in my chosen position...

having said that, I get 60 > 80 js errors

Blocked a frame with origin "http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net" from accessing a frame with origin "http://sketchup.engineeringtoolbox.com". Protocols, domains, and ports must match.

for every item I navigate to...

john

The locked marker is created by the point gadget plugin which imports points via CSV. That plugin is made by Chris Dizon from Trimble. The marker is at the original Origin of 0,0,0 which is the default location for inserted objects using the Engineering toolbox plugin.

If you have an object selected the tool box plugin normally inserts at that location and orienatation.

The axes you see in that model was moved to match the straight line that was generated by the shots from the Trimble Total Station I use at work.

I got the plugin from http://sketchup.engineeringtoolbox.com/ I've been using it for nearly two years.

Thanks!

@tig said:

Find the RB file in the Plugins folder which loads this tool...
I'm not sure what it's called, because this Plugin is NOT hosted on the SCF PluginStore...
Then use this in the Ruby Console:
load "name_of_that_file.rb"
Any error messages ?

No error message. Just returned True

@dave r said:

But do you get any messages in the console when you try to run the operation with the plugin and it doesn't work?

Why are you switching back and forth between SU2015 and SU2014?

I only switched to SU2014, as an experiment, to see if it (the plugin) would work in 2014. Which it did. Until I loaded that model. Now it will no longer work in 2014. Even when I start SU to a blank default template

No I do not get any messages in the Ruby Window when I run the plugin. or at any time while the plugin is being asked to Insert an object but doesn't.

I am sorry if I am missing something basic. I have been using this for a long time and now something has gone haywire.

Thank you for your time. I REALLY appreciate it.

@dave r said:

No matter what you have selected as your default browser, SketchUp and any plugins using web dialogs only uses IE. There should be no need to uninstall/reinstall SU because a plugin stops working.

When the plugin does stop working, open the Ruby Console (Window menu) and try activating the plugin. Do you get any messages in the console? If so, copy and paste them here.

The plugin doesn't technically STOP working it just doesn't do a function that it should. I browse all the way to my desired object that I want to insert and when I click on "Insert" nothing Inserts.

I am not Ruby savy so I am not sure what to do with the empty consol.

But I have done another experiment and I find it bizzare but maybe this will help....

I install SU2014 Pro.
I install the Engineering Toolbox Plugin
I can insert items from the plugin no problem.
I go back into my SU2015 and save my job in a SU2014 format.
I open my job in SU2014.
The plugin refuses to work.
I close SU and restart the program to just a blank template.
The plugin doesn't work.
now no matter what I do it will no longer work in SU2014 which was fine until I loaded my SU job.

It's like my simple little job file does something to SU that kills its ability to work with the plugin.

Unit 1 pump room.skp

@driven said:

make surejavascriptin enabled for IE...
test if 3D warehouse is working from inside SU, to see ifjavascript works...

javascript has nothing to do with Java [it's a different language]...

I can't find any mention of Java being needed in the code or at the site, why do you think it's used?

john

Yes, you are correct javascript, not java.
3d warehouse models load fine.
I wasn't aware that java and javascript are unrelated, I get my exercise jumping to conclusions.
The "insert" is a javascript function. A right click and properties shows the script.