Hi Sketchup community. For 2 years now, some of my menu items are greyed out after sometimes 30 minutes of modelling, up to even 4 or 5 hours straight and than I see certain right click context menu items greyed out. Because I use and have so many plugins, each time I load my sketchup model, it take…

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Thank you for your two cents! I appreciate it. Yea I experience the same thing with DIO tools. Now that I’m doing a big purge and reset, I’ve gotten rid of a handful of plugins I don’t need/will use very often (simplifying my workflow). I use a lot of plugins a lot of time, so yea the memory comes a…

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[image] Mark: f I understand @Anssi ’s suggestion It was more a dystopia than a suggestion, especially when you look at all the implications. As SketchUp would only be open to validated plugins, even being able to develop and test would require some kind of developer registration and a special…

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Yea, that’s what I’m saying. Definitely agree.

Allowing non-signed code to run is also important to keep down the threshold for new users to discover the power of scripting. If you had to first be signed up before being able experiment with the API, I don’t think any of the extension developers I know of would be around. I think the solution sh…

@ArayaCAD I do use quite a lot of plugins myself and I always try to tidy them up with Sketchucation’s Plugins/Extension manager so I load them only when needed. I’ve never experienced the problem of greyed-out items though. It might help to narrow down which plugin causes the problem if you publ…

Developers please help - 2 years later and some menu items grey out after period of time:

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DaveR June 1, 2021, 9:26pm 33

FWIW, what Fredo referred to he fixed back in 2019. I saw the grayed out menu items prior to that fix. After he made the change, the problem hasn’t been back. If anyone is still seeing it, either they are running an now ancient version of Libfredo6 or there may be another extension responsible for it.

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Developers please help - 2 years later and some menu items grey out after period of time:

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