Need help in terrain modelling..

mandar1983

Hi Gaieus,

I could not upload the .skp file due to some network issue.
I m sending it to your mail address. Please go through it and let me know if any error found..

Thnks,

Mandar

Gaieus

I purged your model and it went down from 18 Mb around 100 Kb (see attached). There were ozens of unused layers and hundreds of unused components.

Anyway, there is a single material left in the model and if you switch to monochrome face style, you can see that there are many back faces showing outside (those look blue). They have to be reversed in order for Max to understand them correctly if you export as 3ds.

But this is really all I know about Max and 3ds.

Block1.skp

mandar1983

Hi Gai..

Thnks for your support..
But i don't have required permissions to see the attached file... can you mail it to me directly on my mail id
"mandarkarve@gmail.com" it would be nice if you could do so.

I am new to Sketch UP yet and don't have much idea abt working in layers in SU and some tricks/twists to lighten up the model while modeling, but will definitely improve myself as time goes by..

Thanks,
Mandar

mandar1983

Hi Gai..

I have started modeling that building once again, hope this time i will get it right.

I just went through the file you have sent and what i found is no. of faces are missing in the file... i m attaching a screenshot of the file to show you the problem...

Thanks,

Mandar

Please find the file..

Gaieus

Well, that may also happen (I could not really make it out what is missing and what is not).

Is this some kind of import?

There is something seriously screwed up in this model. Fortunately, everything is built up from components so if you can fix one component, all the rest is going to be fixed.

Something must have been gone wrong with the scale here. If I dig down to the base component (some 70 in the model) and turn edges to show by axis, all seems to be okay and the faces should form. However when I right click and "Save as" (so that I can tweak), it says that the component has a non-default scale. Exporting it at its default shows that there are miniature edges (something that is 900 mm in your model is now 0.9 mm).

SU has issues with such small scales and does not fill faces. This also applies to automatic face creation when intersecting, extruding and importing.

If this is the result of an import, if I were you, I would restart (instead of suffering with it) and make sure to pay attention to the import scale in the import options dialog. This would save you a tremendous amount of work (and hair).

mandar1983

Well as you said it's a CAD file that i have imported to start with. but before importing it into SU i have kept CAD file units to MM and while importing in SU i have kept importing units as MM as well. so i don't think there will be any issue of units in the model, but as you have mentioned SU has some minor problems working with scales, when i try to save the file every time it shows.. "there are some minor errors in the model do you want SU to fix it before saving the file?? "
If i select yes option files turns the way its showing in the image.. it automatically removes some of the faces. but if i say no then it keep the file the way it is...& again starts giving some error while exporting or importing in to other s/w like 3ds max.

May be the CAD file on which i am working has some issues and i have to fix them in CAD before working into SU..

Mandar

Gaieus

@mandar1983 said:

May be the CAD file on which i am working has some issues and i have to fix them in CAD before working into SU..

I would suggest so, indeed. I have zero experience with CAD files so cannot advise on that but I have seen some problematic imports already so best is to clean up as much as possible.

Here are some pointers in the SU Guide:
http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=114369
http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=38578

mandar1983

Hi,

I am trying my hands on Kerkythea Render engine now.

i knew the basic procedure till opening file in kerkythea exported from SU.. but i m bit confused in camera and light parameters... i am very much use to vray in max.. but even after playing in kerkythea parameters i am not able to get the desired result..

Pls Help... any tutorial to start with or any suggestions are welcome..

Thnaks,
MANDAR

mandar1983

Hello Gai..

I have been through number of posts but i could not found how to create proxy objects of nay already created object from the scene.. any tutorial or any pulgin to be used for it??

like in max... if scene is getting heavier due to some of the objects we can convert it into proxy.. but once we did it we can not edit in the scene..we have to modify original file.. is there any same method in SU..
MANDAR

Gaieus

There's Fredo's Ghos Component plugin:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=21469

It will keep the original in the file (so file size will not be smaller) but since the original, complex component is not displayed, modelling performance can be better.

victor hugo

Hi.

I'm trying to bring a file using the "paste in place" from a file that it is already geo-located, to another file also geolocated and the insertion point when I paste it is on a different place, Is this a problem caused by a plugin, because I've installed some.

Is this happend to anyone else?

I'm using on SU8 pro 8.0.14346

Gracias.