It certainly would be wonderful to have a way to keep each of the plugins and all the files associated to it together and I am sure that someone will look into it seriously and come with some solution! In the meanwhile, the suggestion that Jeff has sounded seems to be good enough for the time being – think it’s worth trying!!

@jprokos said: Do any of you think there is a ruby plugin around that will stop SketchUp from creating a new file every time it's run? John you can't use rubies until Sketchup has loaded the window [that you don't want], however you can write an applescript or automator or similar (keystroke macro app) to launch SU> click on the File menu > click close, > click new or recent files... you could then choose from the last few. I've got scripts that I've wrapped in an apps in my menubar items, so you can get to them anytime. there is a slight problem with this approach when some of the rubies load other bits on startup. This is because it slows the loading and macros can't tell when to click so you either need long delays [1>2 secs] or wrap all of the offending rubies so they when you want them, but not at every startup. If you have a search for sumac in the forum you'll see some of my apps that start SU differently for different things, i.e. paste script into console. it would be trivial to adapt one to open on the recent items menu. john

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