Extensions can greatly extend how sketchup functions.
Ruby plugins for sketchup 8.
Download fluidray for sketchup demo.
Many are specialized tools that can save you hours of work or perform tasks beyond sketchup s native tool set.
Finally make sure to check out the guidelines and manuals by the developers to understand the full potential of these sketchup plugins and good luck with your modeling.
By default the installer will set the install directory to sketchup 8.
On pc the plugins folder is.
It must be installed in sketchup s plugins directory.
Click on the open button.
Unzip the rbz file into sketchup plugins.
The ruby plugin appears in the list of extensions.
Rbz file format.
Simply extract it and run setup.
If you are using sketchup 7 please change it to sketchup 7.
The demo version has all the features of the full version except for a limited resolution.
Under the window menu select preferences to display the following dialog box.
Since the release of sketchup 8 m2 the clever folks at sketchup made installing plugins a one click operation.
Library application support sketchup 2014 sketchup plugins for google sketchup 8 and earlier.
Ruby extensions typically consist of several files so ruby developers had to zip up those files into a standard zip file and then give their users instructions on how to unzip them and where to place.
This version of sketchup has a simple ui to install and upgrade ruby extensions.
Ruby plugin improvements.
It creates buildings merges them and deals with contours and terrains imported from 2d cad files.
On mac the plugins is user folder.
They introduced a new file format rbz which means that you can install plugins from within sketchup itself.