@rich o brien said:

Can you do a system restore?

Alas,no. 😢

Do you have a sketchup.rb file inside the Plugins folder?
That file should only ever be in the Tools folder [at least since v5?], and the latest version is put there automatically by the SUp installer.
Having files that should be in the Tools folder duplicated inside Plugins is a recipe for problems...
You might have other ill-advised 'duplicates' too...
Check these two folders contents and keep just the versions in Tools...

@Pete
I was afraid that was going to be the answer 😞
I still haven't gotten the knack of creating "grunged" metals and paint in Thea's Material Editor.

@Gaieus
Interesting: I'll take a closer look at this. Thank you.
It looks like I'll stick with instancing vegetation models and using Pete's metal materials in Thea.

@simon
The tutorial is just way out of my league. I have Genetica, but never learned how to use it properly. The tutorial program appears to be even more "professional".

A lots of Billiant Plugins
But
Perhaps， should need a Standard for write Plugins

Such as

module Somebody
class Something
def Somejob

it make plugins less conflict
and easier for someguy Creating Icons

It appears under the right-click context-menu, but only IF you have at least one group or component-instance selected...

@solo said:

However if I'm correct in thinking that SU2Vue is a 3rd party plugin and not an e-on product, so they will not have it supported/upgradable from your profile page but rather on Cornucopia like all 3rd party content.

Send an email to Dave (friendly chap) and he will have you sorted out quick.

Dave kindly sent me an email with the update. Very nice of him and I appreciate it. 👍

I had also sent requests to Cornucopia to no avail (note the request back in 2010 for version 1.1). It also does not appear on my Cornucopia purchased list or on my e-on purchased list.

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That looks liek a cool place for a we lad.... HB mate!

View > Guides will toggle them on/off without erasing them.

You can buy me dinner 😉

@bob james said:

Thanks, TIG.
Will they loose their high quality as a result of this process?

Probably - try it an see.
A .prc file is a format for text, the .pdf version will probbaly replicate it's quality but any images will almost certainly loose 'something' in the processing - of course it depends on what you want to do with it! It might not be so bad 😕

Does the order of Ctrl and Shift in the Shortcuts window matter in practice? Along with the V they get played more like a three-note chord on a piano than playing the individual notes in succession.

SketchUp is somewhat an odd out out when it comes to backfaces. Most other 3d modelling apps doesn't even display backfaces - if you look from the backside it'd be transparent. Unless you explicitly told it to display backfaces.

Id' not say it's good modelling technique to keep backface with no material, but it is good practice to keep control over frontface and backface orientation and keep them consistent - making sure the frontfaces are the ones visible.

When you have consistent and regular normals you have a more predictable mesh which makes modelling tools act more reliably. There aren't that many functions in native SU where this matters, but there is some. And plugins and extensions - in particular render engines cares much more about this.

Some doesn't use SU's backface materials, some do. VfSU for instance do that by default. But you will find odd things happen when you try to displace a mesh if you have faces flipped this way and that - as the displacement height is dictated by the face normal.

TT: used your scripts and all now seems to be okay. It was nothing obvious but seems to have been a script left over from my 3D mouse: it kept looking for a central rotation point. It kept repeating it over and over in the ruby console.

Many thanks - sure hope that problem is really gone. Been staying steady at 451/1000.

..nothing better than trouble! 👍

@unknownuser said:

Tip: Type \n followed by a space to start a new line of text (Microsoft Windows)

Honest, Rich, when I clicked on the link it did not take me to the "real" link 😳

@unknownuser said:

No hidden clues, no secret agenda, like i said, you never stop learning... 😉

How true

@unknownuser said:

Great to hear from you too Bob. Hope you're keeping well. How's the job in Area 51 going? Oooops, have i let the cat outta the bag!

Cat? What cat? 😎

Oh, you mean this tip :-)

@thomthom said:

Have you purged the model?

Yes, even if all geometry is deleted from the model space, used components, materials and even styles can add considerable amount of Mb's to it until you purge everything.

does it work in Sketchup 8, the plugin?
cuz in don;t seem to find it anyware in the SU interface 😐

I'm not ruby programmer but some installers require you a specific directory. May be the loader expects to find some things on a specific placement.

As you know we can get several user accounts with the same directory structure and SU will search for plugins in a determinate order (I read it somewhere). I'm not sure but it could be in the plugins folder inside SU application, then the general library, shared library, user library, and so on.

I just collected all of them in my user account/library/application support/GoogleSketchup 7/Sketchup/plugins. All excepting those that are using an installer but probably most of them would work the same.

Finally, I don't understand why some rubys needs another location to work.

Some problems may need file permissions verification (I tried all possibilities with pipping plugin without success.

Spotlight is a really poor searcher, try Easy Find...it's Free!:
http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/index.html

I think this is the same thing:

SketchUp Plugin and Extension Store by SketchUcation provides free downloads of hundreds of SketchUp extensions and plugins