If you copy/paste a larger plugin that has been installed from an installer (e.g.
If you are still looking for a plugin you can’t find elsewhere or you need to update a manually installed plugin, go to the custom search engine that is included on this page.Īlthough plugins now install without the need to restart SketchUp, sometimes you might still need to do this if you run into any problems.
Make sure you always copy the main plugin’s RB file AND all of its miscellaneous files that are typically contained in a similarly-named subfolder. You can now copy other plugins that you can’t install from the above mentioned locations by simply copying them from here to the new installation path (on Windows it’s C:\Program Files (x86)\SketchUp\SketchUp 2013\Plugins and on the Mac, the new plugins folder is located at Macintosh HD/Users/Library/Application/Support/SketchUp 2013/SketchUp/Plugins). On Windows, this is at: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google SketchUp 8\Plugins and on the Mac it is at /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/Plugins.
This will set you up for update notifications when a newer version is available. Go to Window > Extension Warehouse from within SketchUp, log in and find and install the plugins you are looking for.
Let’s look at them: A) You are upgrading and you had plugins installed in the earlier version But there was also a new toolbar button for the Extension Warehouse! At this time, you have a few options.
After all, when you started the new software for the first time, it likely only had the default plugins installed that Trimble released with it. So now that you have upgraded to SketchUp 2013 you should be facing the question: What to do with SketchUp’s plugins in this release.