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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      First verify it's a memory issue. open Task Manager and monitor the memory usage of SketchUp.exe when you export.

      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
        last edited by

        That mesh I got from that image you posted was pretty dense. 85K triangles.
        I ran CleanUp on it afterwards, resulting in 34K triangles.

        If SU is running out of memory, I'd suggest you try with a smaller bitmap. Also, try to run CleanUp before exporting to get rid of co-planar faces.

        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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          jeffschaid01
          last edited by

          Thanks very much for the help. The cpu usage is at about 250,000k when the export process hits 49% then climbs to 270k and the program crashes and closes. Is this beyond SU capabilities?

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by

            No - it'd be at about 2GB. (Unless you have a 64bit OS and SU8M1 with more than 4GB RAM installed - then it can use up to 4GB.)
            It must be something else.

            Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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              jeffschaid01
              last edited by

              Is the "cleanup" process a function of SU?

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by

                @jeffschaid01 said:

                Is the "cleanup" process a function of SU?

                It's another plugin of mine: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=22920

                Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                  jeffschaid01
                  last edited by

                  Great. I will get this installed as well. Did you have a chance to take a look at the photos of the model I emailed you yesterday? If so, can that be achieved with this program?

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
                    last edited by

                    @jeffschaid01 said:

                    Great. I will get this installed as well. Did you have a chance to take a look at the photos of the model I emailed you yesterday? If so, can that be achieved with this program?

                    Well, it generates the mesh. And I'd think that if you closed that mesh into a solid it should be possible to 3d point the model.

                    The problem seem to be the exporting. I also see the crashes. I even ran CleanUp on the mesh and it crashed.

                    Try to scale down the bitmap to half the size and see if it still crashes then.

                    Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                    List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                      jeffschaid01
                      last edited by

                      Scaled down and unfortunately still having the same problem. You mentioned closing the mesh into a solid, is SU capable of completing a task like this? If not, any recommendations as far as a software program that may be capable of creating such a model?

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                        GUNAWAN W
                        last edited by

                        was waiting for this for alooong time,
                        Awsome! Thanks thomthom 👍

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          Version 0.4.0b

                          • Progress feedback

                          (And I managed to delete one of the example images in the original post. 😞 No undo... )

                          Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                            KulaCZEk
                            last edited by

                            hi there,
                            Its there any posibility to reduce polygons? I tried Polyreduce plugin, which is on forum, but it doesnt work well. And my second question is about performance. I am using iMac, 2.66ghz, 4gb ram, nv9400. On this platform take generating of 150x150px height map around 4. minutes. Can you recomend something to speed it up?

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                            • thomthomT Offline
                              thomthom
                              last edited by

                              @kulaczek said:

                              Its there any posibility to reduce polygons?

                              @kulaczek said:

                              Can you recomend something to speed it up?

                              Scale the bitmap down before processing it. Smaller image = simpler mesh = faster generation.

                              Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                              List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                ichi
                                last edited by

                                Thanks for the update thomthom,it's one of my favorite plugins 😄


                                mount.jpg

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                                  66searcher
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                                  @ TT : well done ! it's great plugin . 👍

                                  http://hamidtoliat.deviantart.com/

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                                    yuchunGong
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                                      daveydave
                                      last edited by

                                      thanks, works in verion 6 too.

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                                        kgregorian
                                        last edited by

                                        Hey everyone, I am new to these forums and I have a quick question, I'm sorry in advance if it's already been answered. I just downloaded this plugin, and placed it in the right location...I have a Mac, so I wen to my internal hdd>app support>google sketchup 8>sketchup>plugins. Yet when I open sketchup it says the following: 'Error Loading File tt_bitmap2mesh.rb no such file to load -- TT_Lib2/core.rb'. This happened to me before, what I did to correct it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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                                        • GaieusG Offline
                                          Gaieus
                                          last edited by

                                          You have missed the "Requirements" in the first post:

                                          tt-lib.png
                                          You also need this plugin:
                                          http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=63393

                                          Gai...

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                                            kgregorian
                                            last edited by

                                            @gaieus said:

                                            You have missed the "Requirements" in the first post:

                                            [attachment=0:2ey2mpwh]<!-- ia0 -->tt-lib.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:2ey2mpwh]
                                            You also need this plugin:
                                            http://forums.sketchucation.com/download/file.php?id=63393

                                            Oh ok that makes sense, thanks for the help!

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