Posts made by kevplank

OK I got it. I found the post that said to change the name of the .zip file from .zip to .rzb and that worked like a charm. Now it's on to plugging in the gcode to my mach3 pre and post code and this should work like a charm. Thank you!!

Did I miss something? I can't get the plugin to install. It's looking for an .rzb file. It won't recognize a .rz file. Did I miss something in the setup? -running OSX latest Sketchup version as of 01-01-16.

Like you suggested, I changed the .zip file to an .rbz. I'll try downloading to my desktop, but I had just downloaded it to a folder. The computer that I'm running Mavericks on worked just fine that way.
One side note of a question on another topic. I noticed that my tool path is operating basically one "level" of cut at a time. In other words it goes to each hole or machining location at one depth of cut and then goes back over the entire process again at the next depth of cut. I basically just want to cut some bolt patterns on a flat sheet with the current project. Seems like a lot of time is spent with the machine traveling from one hole to another rather than completing each hole before moving to the next. Is this something I'm not selecting properly in the process?

@dave r said:

It is compatible with SU8. Check to make sure you have Full Read & Write permissions established for the Plugins folder. If not, change the permissions then try reinstalling the plugin. Also, before you install the plugin, make sure unzipping it hasn't wrecked the file structure. The best thing would be to rename the .zip file to .rbz and use Install Extension... from Preferences>Extensions>Install Extension.

Thank you for the quick response!
I've tried everything you suggested but I'm running into a snag with the extension install.
I deleted the program out of the plugins folder and started all over again. Changed the .zip to .rbz and unpacked it. That all seemed to work just fine.
When I try to install the extension I get a message saying "SU was unable to install your extension for some unknown reason".
I also made sure I had "read and write" permissions and tried to re-install the pluggin the first way and nothing shows up in the menu bar of SU.
Part of the issue might be that when I go to the preferences>Extensions>Install Extension it doesn't allow me to go into the actual application contents folder. So I'm trying to install the extension from another folder. But I'm not sure that should matter.
I've tried both methods of installing into the contents>pluggin folder as well as doing everything I can think of with the extension install. Any other thoughts?

NEWS FLASH:
I was able to get everything installed perfectly on my iMac at my office. I happen to be running Mavericks on that computer with the latest version of SU and everything worked very well. I'm sure there are finer points to getting things to cut the way I want to, but I've already generated Gcode and ran it on my router with no issues. It's just this older version I seem to be having issues with now.

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I'm running an older Mac with Sketchup Version 8. I loaded the files to my "Plugins" folder of sketchup but it doesn't appear in the drop down menu. ??? Is this just not compatible with this version?