Big File Sizes/ High Poly

gaucho

Thanks Guys.

Well, the layers organisation is basic, i do that, in the begining (about 90 mega)it seamed to solve the problem, hiding/showing the layers... now it doesn't anymore.

Same thing with shadows, wich i never used when modeling.

The render images that i mentioned before was about the skethup images themself. We choose to use sketchup most of it because of the quick view of the images, even not being photorealistic ones, once that is to company's internal resolutions only. That part is basically where i have more problems with.

Anyway, what i'm doing right now is that: i copy and paste the elements that i'm editing to a new drawing, do the changes than i paste it back.

Thanks for your help guys, and apologies about my bad english!

Howard leslie

Giovani,
Some ideas / suggestions you can try:

Use Components whenever possible (always).
Purge your model frequently (purge ruby very useful for this). Gets rid of unwanted junk.
Delete out any CAD data from your model as soon as you can eg any imported data from AutoCad etc. Keep the number of CAD files that you have imported into your model down as low as possible.
Curved / Circular objects - Keep the no. of sides as low as you can get away with - without making your curves look too angular (a compromise needs to be found depending upon how much you'll be zooming in to your model). This helps keep the no. of edges / faces down - this is important on large models.
Use the X-Ref Ruby and break your model up into areas or sections.
Work on each section seperately in different SketchUp files. Now they'll be much more manageable.
Have a model that contains all your Xref'd in data - but use only this model when you really need to.
Turn off Shadows (Gives your PC a break !!!).
Face Style Toolbar (Rendering) - Turn off Shaded with Textures, use Shaded instead. (also gives your PC a break)
...
Hope this helps

Howard L'

gaucho

@unknownuser said:

Use the X-Ref Ruby and break your model up into areas or sections.
Work on each section seperately in different SketchUp files. Now they'll be much more manageable.
Have a model that contains all your Xref'd in data - but use only this model when you really need to.

That may be a good solution!
At least in Autocad was it.

Thanks, i'll give it a shot.

plot-paris

very small thing: I believe SU speeds up a bit, if you turn off profiles...

pav_3j

@unknownuser said:

Use the X-Ref Ruby and break your model up into areas or sections.
Work on each section seperately in different SketchUp files. Now they'll be much more manageable.
Have a model that contains all your Xref'd in data - but use only this model when you really need to.

how was i not aware of this ruby? is it on smustard as i can't seem to find it.

i think gernally cleaning up cad drawings before importing is a good idea too, when working from colleagues drawings i always spend a few mins deleting layers and simplifying them as much as poss before the import.

pav

remus

The xref ruby is here pav: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=7329&hilit=+Plugin

pav_3j

legend, gonna have a play now.

cheers dude

pav

Chris Fullmer

Another thought on image exporting is to turn off anti-aliasing. That causes SketchUp a lot of extra work. Also, you say SketchUp is crashing. Is it actually crashing and closing? or is it just stalling with the screen still open. If it doesn't full close down, then its not crashed generally. I've had times where I've exploded a large group that took over 4 hours to finish the explode. It never crashed, it just sat there frozen, but it was still working in the background. Good luck!

Chris Fullmer

AdamB

@plot-paris said:

very small thing: I believe SU speeds up a bit, if you turn off profiles...

Its not a small thing. It can have a quite significant impact on display update rate. Try it.

Richard

Also make good use of scenes!!!!!!!!

I usually have a few pages set to manage my layers and put me in wireframe before doing to much navigation in large models. Using a shortcut to textured or hiddenline mode can quickly set you back to the display mode you want!

BTW all! Profiles? Does anyone ever use profiles? I think I turned them on a few years ago and didn't like them at all!

dylan

I think I switched profiles off on day 1 of discovering SU. Always thought they looked ugly.

plot-paris

can help sometimes though, when you are looking for some unclosed faces in complicated models.
but yes, they are ugly and I switched them off instantly

mateo soletic

@unknownuser said:

BTW all! Profiles? Does anyone ever use profiles? I think I turned them on a few years ago and didn't like them at all!

Same here,now that You mentioned them, I allways wondered what they were for.

Gaieus

I don't use them either (only in rare cases like what Jakob mentioned)

gaucho

I've never used the profiles too... i'm working in sketchup about 3 years now... and i also turned them off in the first day... useless..

And the crashing is in the moment when i'm about to export the 2d image, it closes and gives me the classic bug splat message... so... no work in the background...

Turn off the anti-aliasing sometimes solve the problem in this moment, but gives me a terrible final image...

In the end of the day for now, better thing is to separate the drawings... unfortunatly... managing the overall size of it...

Thank you all guys!

chango70

Try exporting image without anti-aliasing 2x the size u need. Then use Photoshop to resample and downsize the image. This way photoshop does the anti-aliasing for you. I always use this trick for my work.

chango70

Out of curiosity what graphics card to you use?

gaucho

God...

Office's PC...

it says Nvidia Quadro FX 1500... does that make sense?
i use it with two 21 inch lcd screens...

Richard

Mate there could be a chance you are exporting the image at over 4000px I find similar issues in exporting higher res images!

gaucho

I always export images with 3200x2165... good enough to be printed in a A3 format...

There's any specific comand in photoshop to the anti-aliasing job?