I'm happy to announce a free edition of my Profile Builder plugin. The original plugin was released about three years ago on Smustard. The free edition allows all of the features of the original pro version except for the ability to define your own profiles. Re: Plugin Profile Builder Free Edition. This is a fantastic plug in.free and paid are great (stable, provide what is advertized, etc). Everyone who strives to create a plugin should strive for this level of completeness and robustness. The current version of Profile Builder is 3.1.1. View Release Notes. By downloading the software, you indicate that you agree to the terms of the license agreement. Download Profile Builder 3 RBZ. How to Install an RBZ in SketchUp. The current version of Profile Builder is 3.1.1. View Release Notes. By downloading the software, you indicate that you agree to the terms of the license agreement. Download Profile Builder 3 RBZ. How to Install an RBZ in SketchUp. Profile Builder 3 is a useful sketchup extension that can be applied to produce smart buildings automatically with skin, columns, beams, and more. Profile Builder can also be used to reiterate components and extrude profiles with the purpose of generating buildings, walls, and other objects in SketchUp.
Profile Builder is like the Follow Me tool 'on steroids'. It has been designed for professionals who want to model intelligent building materials with extreme speed and accuracy. It may forever change the way you model with SketchUp.
Compatible with:
- Windows and Mac systems SU8 and up.
Features
- Ability to define and save custom profiles
- Intelligent modelling of real building materials
- Automatic orientation of profile extrusion along any path
- Ability to edit a path and automatically update the extrusion
- Full control of profile orientation (placement point, rotation, offsets, etc.) along a path
- Profile Member Path Inferencing (PMPI)
- Automatic edge smoothing
- Export material quantity reports
- Downloadable profile libraries
Be sure to download the PDF User Guide (English)
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Installation:
- Open SketchUp
- Go to Window (Mac:SketchUp)->Preferences->Extensions->Install Extension...
- Browse to the RBZ file you downloaded from Smustard
- Click 'Open'
- Click 'yes' when asked if you trust this extension
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Please Note:
You may need to change your folder permissions for the Profile Libraries Folder in order to create a new library.
- In Windows, navigate to the 'Libraries' folder inside the DM_ProfileBuilder folder.
- Right-click on the 'Libraries' folder
- Select 'Properties' from the right-click context menu
- Click the 'Security' tab
- Click the 'Edit..' button to edit the permissions of this folder
- Select the 'Users' group
- Click the 'Full Control' checkbox in the 'Allow' column
- Click Apply
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Profile Libraries
The following profile library files (PLB) are available at no charge. The Profile Builder plugin is required to use these libraries. See user guide for details.
Attention Users Upgrading from SketchUp 8 to SketchUp 2013
Sketchup
- First, download the latest version of Profile Builder from Smustard. You may need to login using the MySmustard toolbar to access your past purchases. Or, find the original download link that Smustard sent you when you purchased.
- Install the plugin as described in the section above.
- Go to your SketchUp 8 plugins folder and find the folder ‘ProfileBuilder/Libraries’. This contains all of your custom profile libraries.
- Copy all of the PLB files from this folder to the corresponding folder for SketchUp 2013 (../plugins/DM_ProfileBuilder/Libraries). You may need to be logged in as an administrator to do this.
- Ensure that you do not have two versions of Profile Builder inside your plugins folder. If you have multiple versions, delete the file ‘pb_loader.rb’ and the folder ‘ProfileBuilder’ from your plugins folder but make sure that you have first transferred your custom libraries into the ‘DM_ProfileBuilder/Libraries’ folder.