Reduce the complexity of surfaces in a model?

Marron

Hello!

When importing industrial robots in SketchUp some of them becomes very large due to a lot of complex surfaces.
These two are in some way converted from the STEP format.

Is there some way to simplify the geometry of the surfaces in SketchUp? Some plugin or some approach? Or do I have to do it all by hand?

I have attached 2 files, one with a 700 kb robot and one with a 13 mb robot.

It is not that important that the robot looks exactly in detail as the original one, all small screws and details could be removed.

Thanks in advance!

700kb model.

13mb model.

charly2008

Hi Marron,

try ThomToms Cleanup ruby: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=22920

Charly

Marron

Thanks! CleanUp is a great plugin that I have used for a while now. And in combination with MeshLab and Babel online converter the I reduced the size to 4-5MB, but the result isn't that good. But, I think it is hard to get it better. Will try to get the cad files and simplify the model from start.