Updating to New Model of SketchUp – Extensions and plugins all gone – Professional

Simply curious, is there anyway to retain my extensions and plugins once I replace to a brand new model of SketchUp? I really feel like I’m always having to reinstall all my extensions / plugins from scratch each time I replace to a brand new model of SketchUp.

Its particularly tedious as a result of I don’t know which extensions/plugins I’ve off the highest of my head, however in an effort to discover them I’ve to Log off of the brand new model of SketchUp as a result of my subscription solely permits me to be in one by one. Then log in to the outdated one. Screenshot the checklist of names in my extension folder, and many others. Much more tedious is the method of re-adding all the nice instruments within the Fredo suite.

There’s obtained to be a shortcut for this, proper?

The extensions aren’t gone. Every model of SketchUp installs as a separate program. For those who didn’t uninstall the earlier model it should nonetheless be obtainable. Greatest observe is to put in the extensions contemporary from their supply to make sure you have the newest variations which are updated for the SketchUp model. If you wish to dwell on the sting, go forward and replica them from the earlier model and paste them into the Plugins folder for the brand new SU set up. However then be ready to chase load errors and repair the issue recordsdata. Some extensions additionally must undergo a correct set up course of. You’re by yourself to type out the loading errors, after all.

For those who had been utilizing the Sketchucation Extension Retailer device to put in extensions from Sketchucation you would use it to put in your bundle from there. That ought to get you Fredo6’s extensions.

@tysongersh i agree that is annoying and there ought to at the very least be an extension for taking a snapshot of your outdated variations’ extensions and UI. If Sketchup may at the very least simply port your outdated UI plus shortcuts that might be superior. You possibly can’t anticipate them to auto-update extensions however yeah, UI and shortcuts needs to be a no brainer with some exceptions like the place instruments had been modified or options added/subtracted.

My workaround is taking screenshots and saving them in EverNote. I screenshot the UI, extension supervisor window and SketchUcation extension supervisor.

I additionally simply seen the Shortcuts window as an choice to import and export shortcuts so I’m including that to my BKM.

That mentioned, Sketchup please make updates and pull UI config recordsdata to new variations.

Does anybody know of an extension that may do that? Or can somebody make one?

SketchUp shortcuts do switch between variations.

Thanks for the unique publish
i agree with you – its horrible! takes a day to trace down all of the outdated ones and search for replacements for these that aren’t suitable. Im stunned that extra folks don’t remark and request a treatment for it.

What do you counsel? You’d most likely like if solely extensions licensed and distributed by SketchUp had been allowed to run.

If it takes you a day to do this there should be one thing mistaken with the best way you’re going about it.

Hello Dave! very long time no discuss!
are you able to elaborate?
now i am going to extensions supervisor within the final model
undergo the checklist and within the new model go searching within the extension warehouse. outdated plugins very often won’t exist so very often, i’d must trawl by means of new ones. new studying curve for every one.

What’s a greater means?

Sketchucation. Set up by means of sketchucation, utilizing the sketchucation app.
it’ll create a “bundle” with all of your extensions.
when 23 is launched, I’ll set up 22’s bundle on 23.

then, I’ll take 5 min to test it’s all there.

I believe that the devs are wrestling with a “half a loaf” dilemma. It could actually be attainable to deal with this for extensions from the EW, and that might suffice if you happen to use solely extensions from the EW. sketchUcation already has a system that remembers your downloads and may restore them multi function go. However it isn’t mechanically invoked once you set up SketchUp as a result of it isn’t from Trimble and so doesn’t come pre-installed.

And there are quite a few different wonderful sources that aren’t beneath Trimble’s management. A few of them are proprietary and have options corresponding to customized administration of licenses. A system that coated solely the EW would go away these websites out. And a system that coated all the opposite websites would require both an enormous quantity of ad-hoc site-specific code or for Trimble to develop a common answer after which persuade others to implement it of their extensions and websites. A number of work in any case.

Fact be advised, if what you’re doing a full setup of a brand new model together with extensions, templates and customized toolbars ought to take lower than 20 minutes. A couple of exterior extensions like Twilight or different renders or 3d connexions drivers and such a couple of minutes extra. Even the warehouse offers you an inventory of your extensions. Sadly they one way or the other eliminated the auto set up a number of variations again, hopefully it is going to be reinstated sooner or later.
It’s annoying, however higher than having the replace overwrite every part.

how does it solely take you 20 minutes? i really feel foolish on the time its taking me

Ignoring the far superior Bundles choice obtainable with the sketchucation device, even opening the E Warehouse from inside Sketchup after which choosing My Downloads offers you an inventory of your extensions and the choice to put in them.

lightbulb!!! good thanks a lot. that helped alot.

Hope I’ve pushed you in the proper path, late for me and much far an excessive amount of whiskey to even spell whisky appropriately.

I by no means relied on the auto set up. After I obtain an .rbz destined for set up in SketchUp, I retailer them in a folder titled “SketchUp RBZs for Set up”. If an extension is up to date, I transfer the outdated .rbz to a subfolder of that folder (“Earlier Variations”). I’ve obtained ANOTHER subfolder – “No Longer Used” – the place I’ve obtained all of the .rbzs for extensions I’ve tried, however not use.

With this “SketchUp RBZs for Set up” folder, I now have a folder FULL of all my extensions (save for those from SketchUcation) that I can use when the subsequent main model of SketchUp Professional is on the market – with out having to search out and obtain them once more. With the mixture of SketchUcation bundles and this folder, I can shortly set up ALL my extensions – of their most present model.

20 minutes is QUITE optimistic! The extension set up alone – even with my “streamlined” methodology, often takes that lengthy for me and my mixture of extensions.

It’s getting my customized toolbars setup that, for me, make a TOTAL of 20 minutes seemingly impossibly quick. AFTER I take almost 20 minutes to put in extensions, I open each the prior and new (simply put in) variations, then arrange the brand new variations toolbars to match what I’m used to. This step takes me at the very least one other quarter-hour.

no Concept how lengthy it takes me emigrate to a brand new model, between the extensions, the default mannequin and magnificence…
Lower than an hour for positive.

and once you consider it, lower than an hour for a 100% clear set up annually (or so) isn’t such a tough worth to pay; It leaves us 8759 hours to work

Simply in case some haven’t discovered it but, here’s a trick:

1 – Open the Extension Warehouse.

2 – Click on in your profile icon.

3 – Choose My Downloads. It takes a couple of second after which all of the downloaded extensions seems.

Now the trick

4 – Choose all that’s proven as you’d do in a phrase processor or a Internet web page.

5 – Copy the choice (CTRL-C on Home windows or Command-C on Mac)

5 – Begin a phrase processor.

6 – Paste (CTRL-V or Command-V). You get an inventory you could save and/or print.

I attempted that, and it labored nicely. Don’t even want a flowery phrase processor, TextEdit labored.

The pasted textual content consists of hyperlinks that may open up the proper web page in Extension Warehouse.

You do know you could click on every one within the checklist and set up it.