@j_house On the lack of settings, you just need to add them if they are missing.

On the logging, have you tried the advice in:
http://www.sweethome3d.com/support/foru ... hread,9906

If that doesn't help, you can try a little plugin that daniels118 created when I was helping him understand an issue I was having with one of his plugins. This plugin automagically redirects the stdout/stderr to a file. See the following post for the link to the plugin:
http://www.sweethome3d.com/support/foru ... 40F4#53691

HTH