Besides, why should lay people mess around with the program structure of a Program File?! The new one doesn’t even show a Plugins Folder. On the other approach of copying & pasting the unzipped files directly into the Sketchup Program – The House Builder actually came with a diagram of where to put the files into the (Sketchup 5) files tree, but that tree of files doesn’t look anything like the Sketchup 2015 files. Sketchup then opened up that folder and there was nothing there, it just said No Items Match Your Search.

Sketchup then saw that Folder (it has a whole lot of files in it) but did not seem to do anything. Well I tried the option of trying to re-zip the folder (could not find anywhere in Windows to stop it from auto-unzipping) and then adding the rbz extension. You simply place the plugin file(s) in the Plugins directory, restart SU, and rock and roll. You don’t need to install Ruby to run Ruby plugins in SU. Renaming and copying files is something any garden variety computer owner/user should be able to do on his system. It seems to me that you’re setting the geek bar a bit low. Read the following article (which you should probably have already done): Installing Ruby plugins. skp too, if you like–into the SU Plugins directory. Open housebuilder.zip with WinZip or equivalent (realizing you haven’t told us your Preferences > Extensions installer again. Rename housebuilder.zip to housebuilder.rbz and try using the You can install it in either of two ways:

Housebuilder is an older plugin, dating from before the extensions installer was added to the Preferences menu.

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