@Box Thanks Box, but I’m still learning the ins and outs of SU, so what may be obvious to you is still a bit “greek” to me
Ozekisan
@TIG I followed the "address that Ruby Console gave me, but there is no APPDATA in the “owners” file…
C:/Users/Owner/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins
Ozeki
It is hidden by default. In Windows File Explorer:
Tools (menu) > Folder Options… > View (tab)
select
Show hidden files , folders and drives
Or just type %appdata% in windows explorer address bar.
Or just copy+paste the entire path to the Plugins folder into the Windows Explorer bar to open it…
BUT you rarely need to access it !
What should be in the SketchUp Tools folder ?
In all versions:
Three .rb files
extensions.rb
langhandler.rb
sketchup.rb
If >=v2014
A subfolder named ‘RubyStdLib’ with many files and subfolders…
From a parallel thread…
SketchUcation.com is free to join as a base-level member [you still get to read/participate-in most of the threads, download PluginStore items etc]: however, you can pay a modest membership fee to receive many freebies, SCF Shop discounts, app-discounts and even a monthly raffle where the prizes [e.g. Space-Mouse] outweigh the fee…
The link to get a ‘free’ membership is shown in the FAQ section below the top paid-membership pane…
SkethUcation relies on corporate-sponsorship, banner-advertising-revenue and also its modest membership fees to pay its costs… BUT you are not forced to pay anything…
@DanRathbun Thanks for the reply Dan…Yeah, I kind of figured it out by just typing it in the address bar after “owners” and I simply followed the rest of what Ruby Console “described”…
@TIG Thanks TIG…You guys are greatly appreciated…I know I sound like a dummy on occasion, but thanks for your patience and understanding…KUDOS to you all!!!
Ozekisan
please help I’ve have tried everything and I cannot get housebuilder plug in to show up in tools or preferences. I’m trying to complete framing for a tiny house and have tried everything that I have found and nothing works. I can’t rename the rp files I right click to rename and no opton for it am I missing something? Please help.
What “rp file”? To what are you trying to rename this file?
Where did you get the Housebuilder extension that you are trying to install? There no need to rename anything.
I downloaded house builder for sketchup but apparently I didn’t store the file in the right sketchup folder because when I went in to tools it wasn’t there. So I tried moving it in to a few different folders in sketchup and still nothing. So I read a few responses that said try adding the extension through preferences but that didn’t work either and I’m not sure of what else to try.
I got it Ruby library.
My impression is that the Ruby library has often not been updated for some time.
See TIG’s earlier post for a more up to date source, in the current .rbz format which WILL install using Preferences/Extensions/Install Extension. You will save yourself much grief.
As John wrote, the version in the Ruby library has not been updated. The link TIG provided will get you to the updated versions.
After you download it from Sketchucation, use Preferences>Extensions>Install Extension to install it.
You should remove any files you already dumped into the various folders.
I don’t have the link for TIG version can you send please?
See the second post in this thread.
It’s already been posted three times in this thread - twice by TIG and once by me referencing TIG’s post - just a few posts back.
You aren’t making it easy to help you.
John this is my first time on this thread so I’m not familiar with where
everything is. So that might be why. if you’re going to be testy about it
don’t bother. thanks.
Sorry, didn’t mean to be tetchy, and I don’t normally get that way either.
But please do read what’s already been said. This is a forum that does really try to help, and so do I.
Generally on any forum like this, it’s a good idea to read through the thread before you post in it. With a thread like this one with over 30 posts and nearly 18,000 views, there’s a good chance your question has already been answered.
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