However, I have written many complex SketchUp based toolsets for companies all over the world, where I agree a reasonable fee beforehand, and this helps cover the ‘costs’ of making and updating the ‘free’ stuff.
I have just one paid Extension in the SCF Shop. LibFredo6 takes care, among others, of enriching my extensions with a few capabilities such as default parameters, language translation, Check Plugins for Update, Trace logging, etc. Personally I write ‘free’ extensions, available from the SketchUcation PluginStore - there is a Donation button when a user can pay a modest reward via PayPal should they find it useful. LibFredo6 is a shared plugin library used by most of my extensions.
This signing puts an unnecessary burden on developers, who have to get their free RBZs re-signed etc for no reward, even if they have not had to revise any code.Įven SketchUp’s own thomthom has ‘unsigned’ tools… The biggest issue comes from the new process of ‘signing’ extensions for use in newer versions, but only an issue if the user’s Extension Loading Policy is not set to be Unrestricted. However, unless developers are informed of issues they are unlikely to ‘fix’ them. Many free plugins are relatively simple and so often they need no updating to run on newer versions.
