Cesium ion Sketchup Extension

A SketchUp extension for publishing SketchUp models as 3D Tiles to your Cesium ion account for use in CesiumJS and other applications.

Installation and Usage

See our official extension page https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/cesium-ion

Local Development

Sign up for a Cesium ion account

Go to https://cesium.com/ and create an account

Install Ruby and required modules

Instructions can be found here.

Install bundler (it may already be installed)

gem install bundler

Install required modules

bundler install

Building Plugin

Run the following command

ruby ./build.rb

The plugin file will be located at ./build/cesium_ion.rbz.

Locally installing in Sketchup

Under the Windows menu, select Extension Manager

Click Install Extension

Select the build/cesium.rbz file you built

Once it is installed, you can Publish from the Extensions->Cesium ion->Publish menu item

Release

• Update the version in cesium_ion.rb
• Tag the version and push it
  • git tag -a v1.x.x -m "Version 1.x.x"
  • git push origin v1.x.x
• Go to the Extension Warehouse
• Select My Extensions from the dropdown on the right side
• Click Manage Store on the left side
• Click Edit next to the Cesium ion Extension
• Change whatever you need to. Be sure to update the .rbz file and the What's New section
• Click Save Draft
• On the next page click Publish