oh you guys are going to love this one

export 2d stopped working....it would post menus...but no image written
(VRAY just never worked for me at all in any way on any day)
Tried to reload sketchup couple of times....no avail..still got menus but no actual image write
Went into the plugin and changed 1 text string by 1 character
(added a space in save file panel title)
Reloaded sketchup...works again
I suspect its the whole plugin mgmt infrastructure....not so much the actual plugin

Just got to love all this "free" stuff

jwhils...welcome to the party

My experience with this plugin in is that you have enter values / make selections several times to get them to take....things like selecting segments, enter values, etc.....does not appear to work reliably on my system.

I will leave it at that.

supposedly the VRAY plugin is suppose to be better. However, my experience is that VRAY doesnt do a single thing....just sits there. So I use this plugin extensively (even modified it to get defaults the way I want them).

Like I said earlier....this pluging works well....would recommend it....VRAY not on my recommended list (there are other plugins from various authors that I would not recommend at all).

RE OLE....I know about OLE but its hap hazard in AOO/LO....problematic

RE embed picture....Yes...do that now all the time...very manual...doesnt lend well to update
and managing versions.

Since AOO/LO draw is not much more than impress (abstract shapes, simple diagrams, 2D) just curious if anybody was looking to take the productivity package to the next level.

AOO/LO filters for Visio are real weak...so that is not an option. Could look at
inkscape,etc...but those seem to be more about making logos and icons. Could look at
vpython since there is a python bridge but vpython is really used for scientific
visualization (relatevely crude colors and shapes, no real library of shapes to build off of, etc).

so just curious.

Has anybody explored any sort of bridge between Open Office or Libre Office? The idea would be to be able to have a drawing or document in OO/LO where you click on it and it launches sketchup to edit the actual drawing....then when complete, takes the resulting drawing and places it where the original was.

Much like Visio and Word / PPT where from drawing in word / PPT you can launch visio, make changes and return to word / PPT and the drawing is updated.

I want to take a quick minute to point out that this plugin works VERY WELL.
I have not had one problem with this and have used it quite extensively.
This is a plugin I would recommend

RE BM plugin: If somebody is going to the trouble of making a plugin, then should make
sure it works (instructions accurate, if one went to the trouble of a
plugin then why not add it to favorites, why not put it in the directory
or tell user to put it into directory, etc). Of course, its always nice
to compare this BM plugin to Dulux plugin (that works but assumes I have
the hubble telescope in my hand to blow up the color wheel to see what I
want...but at least it works as advertised).

RE troll: Fine / fair....but understand Profile builder free is 10000% better done
then most plugins. Fredo stuff is 1000% better. The rest are marginal
at best (sort of does some things good...one plugin -to remain nameless -
does a few things intermittently ok. other things just dont work) and not
of much value at all at worst (another nameless plugin just does nothing
at all....says it installed successfully but does nothing when invoked).

            I guess my frustration is that alot of these plugins dont appear to be 
            robust in nature even for freeware.   People who write free Visio scripts
            (June the second has basically done alot of sketchup like behaviors for 
            visio very well) or inkscape python scripts dont seem to have these kinds 
            of problems, hence my shock and disappointment to the pollution of a great
            initiative.

            Before you all ask....I have to move off Visio...company is weening all of
            us off MS tools.  Dia is a joke, gliffy is a hosted app, smartdraw et al 
            are windows based, Libre office / open office draw are bad, but given this
            experience, bad is a matter of perspective. 

            That left inkscape and Sketchup...guys in another 
            group are using sketchup (given their output, I tend to think little or no
            plugins involved...more taking canned components and just placing them
            on a rectangle "card" kind of thing...then std export).   
            Given this experience, I really cant ever see me recommending buying pro 
            or layout.

            So yes....maybe I am a crusty old dinosaur, but when something earns my
            respect, I am just as effusive with praise as I am with criticism.
            LO/OO writer is darn good (much more stable than word, much better 
            control of document elements, support programmatic operations in table
            cells quite nicely - beauty of a table with functionality of a spreadsheet,
            able to handle large docs - 500 pages - well, etc).  I would recommend
            that tool to anybody.

This is an absolutely worthless plugin.

• instructions dont match Sketchup
• Overrides (and looses) default color palette

Just another worthless plugin

This is a fantastic plug in....free and paid are great (stable, provide what is advertized, etc). Everyone who strives to create a plugin should strive for this level of completeness and robustness