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jnweiger / inkscape-gears-dev

Enhanced version of the well known gears extension, allows spokes, center cross, metric module, best evolute shape ...
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Problem with 'installing'... #34

Open Chromatamata opened 5 years ago

Chromatamata commented 5 years ago

Hi... I don't know what is going on but as far as I can see Inkscape can't 'see' this extension. I tried putting the extracted files in the normal extensions folder and that didn't work. I also tried putting them in the exact peculiar place that this github entry suggests and that also didn't work. I am using Windows 7 Home Professional 64 bit and Inkscape 0.92 64 bit. Where is this extension supposed to appear? In the extensions menu? Any help would be appreciated.

Neon22 commented 5 years ago

Its not really a peculiar place. It is the normal user extensions folder. You can find the proper folder by looking at the Preferences section in your inkscape UI. Edit/Preferences will get you to the preferences menu. Inside that menu is the System item and it will show you the folder locations for many aspects of Inkscape. one of those is called "User Extensions". That is the folder into which you should place the py and inx files.

The extension appears in the Extensions/Render and is called Gears-dev You will have to restart inkscape if it was open when you copied the files.

Chromatamata commented 5 years ago

Hi. Thanks for the reply. :-) I have read your instructions very carefully and the folder you describe is the exact second folder that I have already tried (the one that I described rightly or wrongly as peculiar). lol. I have tried again and copied the files to the inksacpe\extensions folder you are describing inside of the appdata\roaming folder, inside of C:\users\'myself' and still it does not work even though I have made sure that I have closed and re-opened Inkscape. There is no entry in the render menu that mentions gears except the pre-installed 'gear' extension. I'm confused.

Neon22 commented 5 years ago

yes that is weird. Please check these:

LarsBV commented 5 years ago

The final paths should be: ~/.config/inkscape/extensions/gears-dev.py ~/.config/inkscape/extensions/gears-dev.inx

so not in a subfolder but directly in the extensions folder.

I am not sure if any of the other files are needed, and in that case where. But it seems to work with just those two.

Neon22 commented 5 years ago

@LarsBV request was for windows locations. User extensions folder is defined in your preferences. yes you only need the inx and py files. The best place to find them ready to manually instal is: