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fredo6

@Berserk said in [Plugin] MatSim (Material Simulation) - v1.5b - 09 Jul 25:

The extension is very useful. But in the large model there is a limit on the number of materials supplied, and the color theme change takes a very long time (2 min.) on a modern computer (AMD 16 honest cores up to 5 GHz, 128GB RAM, RTX 2080 Super 12 GB). A model of a city with 80,000 inhabitants. Unfortunately, I can't share the model.

I released MatSim v1.5b, with up to 150 materials by simulation, instead of 50 (which I already considered a lot).

For performance, I am not sure MatSim can do better than what Sketchup would do natively by permuting materials. As for any automated process, just consider how long it would take you to do it manually...

fredo6

NEW RELEASE: MatSim v1.5b - 09 Jul 25

Requirements

LibFredo6: v14.3a or above
Sketchup version: SU2017 and above

MatSim 1.5b includes changes for:

Increased the number of material for simulations to 150 (instead of 50)

Home Page of MatSim for information and Download.

Main post of this MatSim thread.

gullfo

might be useful to have a dialog option to enable users to add basic info - select type, enter model #, H-W-D, and/or maybe select similar product type and re-size to "simulate" pending adding an actual model.

i know for me, given space constraints on uiltity rooms in recording studios, having the equipment sized correctly (as simple boxes) is much more important than the detailed looks when configuring the approximate systems layout for the engineers to refine later.

Berserk

@fredo6 The extension is very useful. But in the large model there is a limit on the number of materials supplied, and the color theme change takes a very long time (2 min.) on a modern computer (AMD 16 honest cores up to 5 GHz, 128GB RAM, RTX 2080 Super 12 GB). A model of a city with 80,000 inhabitants. Unfortunately, I can't share the model. 2025-07-09 165343.png

alexpacio2013

@fredo6 Yes, the option you're referring to is only for SketchUp exports of images, including the transitions between scenes, but not for V-Ray batch.

serrot

@Mike-Amos Thank you

serrot

Thank you

fredo6

Did you look in the Animation settings?

Rich O Brien

@majid

If you go to C:\Users\SomeName\AppData\Roaming\Rayscaper\UserAssets you will find the custom materials you have made zipped.

If you unzipped you will see the preview image. If you change that image and zip it making sure to delete the original zip and name the new one the same you get custom icons.

Dave R

@hannaconner said in Sketchup 2017 suddenly closes:

I use SU 2017 as a subscription doesn't make sense

You're right. That doesn't make sense since SketchUp 2017 was never available as a subscription. What kind of license do you really have?

@hannaconner said in Sketchup 2017 suddenly closes:

Anytime I try to do a cut and paste or other action that increases or adds to it, it suddenly crashes.

What operating system are you using? What are the specs on your computer? What is the graphics card? Most likely you have exceeded your computer's capability. It's also possible that you have a bad object (component or group) in the model.

You might try purging and otherwise cleaning up the model before trying to add more to it.

You could share the file with us so we can see if it can be fixed. Upload it to DropBox or We Transfer and share the link.

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