This Extension specifically made for SketchUp 2024.0. to allow to save to older SketchUp version. However should work in any older SketchUp. Tested only on Windows 11, at SketchUp 2024.0 (shortly in SketchUp 2023.1, SU2017 make) Due to the massive bug in SU204 related to my special dual (“one an…

[image] john_mcclenahan: PS. The error only appears on startup of SU2024. Once it’s running, after I clear the Ruby console, I don’t get any more error messages when saving using the extension. This indicates that there is no valid model object at the time that the #path method call is first …

So no immediate cause for concern, but perhaps @dezmo might make a small update to remove the startup error?

Thanks John, I updated the first post with new version. Please restart Sketchup (whatever it means in Mac :wink: ) after installing it. It is possible on Mac that the first validation process for the command in the code “happening” earlier than the model is “created” or get a focus… As @DanRathb…

[image] dezmo: I updated the first post with new version. Please restart Sketchup (whatever it means in Mac :wink: ) after installing it. Done that, and it has fixed the load error. (restart means just the same on Mac as it does on Windows. Close SU, and reopen it.) When I first use Save as…

[image] john_mcclenahan: … I expected (perhaps wrongly) that the extension would just use the file name with the suffix -v_2017 (or whatever version I was to choose). But it waits for me to type a file name. If that is by design, fine. Could it at least offer the existing file name as a defaul…

Thank you ! Your work is appreciated.

Life saver! Dev team really needs to have this incorporated “out of the box”. There are other programs out there that need to be compatible with older versions of SketchUp. THANK YOU!

Brilliant ! I have 2017 on my laptop which means I can now take new drawings out and about. Such a smart extension - Thanks for the new feeling of freedom !

[image] ramyhanna: Dev team really needs to have this incorporated “out of the box”. The reason @dezmo created the extension is because the dev team went and removed the previously existing functionality from release 2014. They did it deliberately.

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gjohnson April 18, 2024, 12:20am 17

this is awesome, it works
thanks so much

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