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It seems that the current TRNSYS3D setup program (the one included with TRNSYS 18.5.1) does not work with recent versions of Sketchup 2023 (I tried with version 23.1.340).
By default, Sketchup is installed in C:\Program Files\SketchUp, and the TRNSYS3D installation program copies new files to:
C:\Program Files\SketchUp\SketchUp 2023\Sketchup\Plugins
However, Sketchup does not "see" those files so the TRNSYS3D plugin is not available.
A workaround is to change the destination directory in the TRNSYS3D installation program to:
C:\Users\%YOUR_USER_NAME%\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2023\SketchUp\Plugins
or to manually copy the files there if you already tried. The files to copy are:
Trnsys3d.rb TRNSYS_SlabNodingProgram_v3.rb Trnsys3d (the whole folder)
Alternatively, you can zip all the files that the installation program has copied, rename the archive from .zip to .rbz, and "install" that .rbz file through the Sketchup extension manager.
Michaël Kummert
Polytechnique Montréal