The first few times I tried sketchup upon upgrading the plugins, it crashed immediately on the application startup. I had installed (updated) LibFredo6 v13.4a and thrupaint2 along with the updated jointpushpull. I was not able to get sketchup to open (with plugins loaded) to disable the plugins through the extension manager, so I restored the plugin folder from Time Machine to its previous state – then tried installing LibFredo6 v13.4a without the other Fredo updated plugins.
With only LibFredo6 v13.4a installed, Sketchup opened but every time I tried using thrupaint1 (or thrupaint2 when I had reinstalled it again), sketchup immediately crashed. When I reverted back to the previous version installed, LibFredo6 v12.9a and removed thrupaint2, restarted, then thrupaint1 and sketchup worked fine.
I am going to try your suggestion and remove the subfolder manually and then reinstall LibFredo6 as suggested.
I did the manual removal (as suggested) and then the reinstallation of LibFredo6 along with the other updated plugins and that seems to have done the trick!
All is working again without crashes –
Thanks so much for the suggestion!
Unrelated, I have a plugin suggestion for something that I have not been able to find: a plugin that allows one to copy a group in one sketchup file and paste it into another sketchup file with its tag folder structure in place–not just the tag layers. Currently, if you copy a group, it is copied with its tags but without the tag folder structure–this is problematic if the group has multi-layered tags in numerous folders and sub folders as is often found with more complex groups. This way, it would keep things organized and not require one to recreate the folder structure which is a pain in large, complex models–this would be a real time and organization saver. (I have not been able to figure out a way to do this within the app or find a plugin that does this – but it possible I am not doing something correct or am not aware of an app that does this.)
I am sure you get lots of suggestions, so I apologize for pushing another your way.
Thanks again for creating the wonderful plugins that add important, missing features to sketchup.
SketchUp frequently crashes after installed ThruPaint2.
System: MacOS 14.5 (23F79), SketchUp 24.0.554
After installing Thrupaint, SketchUp frequently crashes. Here are the complete Problem Details and System Configuration documents as well as the operational video. Could you help me identify the cause of the problem and find a solution?
ThruPaint does nothing special when you open a model. The only observer is about changing tool (when it is the Bucket tool). It might be that on Mac, some model open with the paint bucket tool activated and that could create a messy situation.
The first question is whether the bugsplat happens with ALL models, or just one or a few models.
What I would suggest is that you look at the material list (built-in and custom) and see if they have weird names (arithmetic characters in particular, and possibly chinese characters). Try to eliminate the materials to see if this helps.
Just tested Thrupaint. Question; while painting, it hides the edges so its more difficult to pick the correct faces while painting. Any way to keep the edges visible?
Wondering if someone can help me with a strange and likely easy issue to solve…?
Issue: Fredo Thrupaint is unresponsive. I’ve re-installed the extension, Fredo Library, and Sketchucation plugins multiple times and on Sketchup versions 2023-2025 with no luck. Its working fine on my designer’s computer, but not mine… I haven’t yet seen an error message. License is active.. When I click on the paintbrush, nothing happens, no window comes up.
I’m also trying to use TopoShaper now and its also unresponsive, which I have used a lot in the past. Curious if this is an issue with my install of Libfredo615.3c?
I have followed TIG’s advice from a previous post that sounded similar, and repaired my sketchup, as well as done clean re-installs:
"Sounds something like a permissions issue that is preventing settings getting saved etc…
Please do the following to ensure you’ve installed SketchUp properly…
Close SketchUp.
Find the SketchUp installer’s exe file [usually in your Downloads folder - or download a new copy]
Select tat file’s icon, right-click > Run as administrator
When prompted choose ‘Repair’
When it’s completed try SketchUp again…
Double-clicking an installer’s exe file to ‘Run’ it is not the same, even if your user-account has admin-powers…
Also ensure you have the latest versions of Fredo’s extensions, LibFredo and the SketchUcation Toolset installed, and restart to sync them all…
If you still have issues please open the Ruby Console before they occur, and provide all error-messages etc…
Perhaps @fredo6 will chip-in…"
I recently required to use this extension for the applying a material to an organic shape made with quads, I’m completely sure they’re all quads cause I had activated the quadface inspector overlay and all my faces are green, how ever when I try to use this tool I get some red faces painted that don’t allow me to apply the material, I ended up using WrapR which is a great tool but it takes a lot more steps to UV map and applying material on another software like gimp, then go back to WrapR and back to sketchup. All the other ways to apply materials work perfectly fine, but the one that applies to quads as the shape flows, is not possible to use it all the time, most of the times I don’t care much and use either of the two ways to apply a material but this time I really needed to be as accurate as posible.
