Hi - sorry for the noob question but in the learning process I was getting tired of the problems I was having with curves on curved surfaces, which I need to do a lot of apparently. I looked up extensions and ended up on Sketchucation where I bought Fredo6’s package of 8(?). I didn’t mind paying the $30 to the developer or the $15 registration fee on Sketchucation. But looking at the email, they want to charge me automatically $15 per month…that seems ridiculous to me. Did I buy from the wrong site if there’s a choice? I suppose I didn’t read it closely enough - I thought it was a 1 time registration fee…not a monthly.
You don’t have to pay anything to access Sketchucation. It sounds like instead of going with the free membership you chose the $15/month Premium Membership. It does show that it is 15$ per month.
If you don’t want to do that you should contact Sketchucation customer support and ask to change your membership to the free plan.
Do make sure that in addition to the extension(s) you purchased that you also get LibFredo6 as well as the Sketchucation ExtensionStore tool. Both are required to be able to run Fredo6’s licensed extensions. If you don’t already have the Sketchucation ExtensionStore installed, you should do so and then use it to install LibFredo6 and the extension(s) you purchased.
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Until that you could take advantage on a lot of other plugins and get special discounts, at least for the month you had already paid. The combo of 8 plugins from fredo is or it used to be around 40 dollars, and you paid 30, buy some other plugins that offer discounts and those 15 bucks will be totally worth it at least for the month. I recommend you Clothworks.
Probably a little advanced for somebody just learning SketchUp don’t you think 
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I’m not telling him to use it right away, just to take advantage of the month of sketchucation he paid to be able to download extensions for a lower price.
He is quite correctly suggesting there are more appropriate extensions that would benefit a beginner. Clothworks is an advanced extension that you need a clear understanding of the fundamentals to use effectively.
Just to add my 2 cents, clothworks is a very specific extension which the TS might well have no use for at all..
Clothworks was the first plugin that came to my mind when I thought about sketchucation, I know is a niche plugin and quite hard to master but no one can deny it’s one of the most fun plugins to play around. Anyways agree that it probably won’t benefit in your work like the rest of Fredo’s extensions, one of the ones I use very frequently that is not included with the ones you already bought is Fredo Portrait, it’s very useful if you want to make axonometric views and export to layout as well. Fredo spline is also very useful to reduce or increase curve segments and create different kind of curves.
Thanks for all of your effort! Although I wanted to learn SU for hobbies, I had an opportunity to join a group at work where we got a license, but little training. I get obsessed when I start using SU - I’ m quite sure I make all sorts of mistakes and whatever I manage to accomplish, I’m doing “the long way”.
We’re modeling a certain type of equipment and there are probably thousands of models out there… It’s nothing that would be new or exciting to most people, but my managers don’t want us saying or showing what we’re working on so as to not attract more competition - so it will be tough to ask for help.
I try to break things down into components - there are so many things to learn! My biggest issue though has been with components that have multiple curves and creating things that aren’t simple simple shapes or aren’t on the typical x,y,z planes. But anyway, I’ve learned a lot, watched a million YouTube videos, and I guess now trying to learn some extensions… Thanks for the help everyone!
Larry
Thanks. Got them all installed and working. So far only partially figured out a couple but wasn’t bad.
Not really sure why many of these things aren’t developed and included in the program but I’m sure they’re a good reason, like money, resources etc I imagine. Anyway thanks.
The main reason is to keep vanilla SketchUp an intuitive, simple to learn program.
There are thousands of extensions, some usefull for architects, some usefull for engineers, some usefull for woodworkers etc etc..
Imagine that all those extensions would be pre-installed. It would no longer be intuitive, nor easy to learn..
Above that, you would have a ton of extensions which you have no use for because you are an engineer and not an architect or a woodworker..
Bottom line: First learn the basics! When having a problem modeling something with the standard tools, trying to avoid tedious, repetitive tasks or overall streamlining your workflow, use an extension!
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