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    • plot-parisP Offline
      plot-paris
      last edited by

      I was relying on the SketchUcation Plugin to keep my stuff up to date. But that obviously didn't work. I just re-installed CleanUp³ and now got the same error message as cotty.

      I then used thomthom's trick and did a first run, just Merging Faces and then a second, full cleanup. This worked!

      So thanks guys. Now I have a new trick to use, when handling problematic models...

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      • Dave RD Offline
        Dave R
        last edited by

        Maybe you could add another trick and clean periodically as you go so you don't have a big load of stuff to clean up at the end.

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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
          last edited by

          @cotty said:

          I do prefer ultra-clean... 😉

          I recommend to enable Remove Duplicate Face only when you know there is an issue. It's extremely slow and not always reliable.

          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

            @plot-paris said:

            I then used thomthom's trick and did a first run, just Merging Faces and then a second, full cleanup. This worked!

            That's strange... and troublesome. It means the issue stems from compound cleanup actions. hmm...

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

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            • cottyC Offline
              cotty
              last edited by

              @thomthom said:

              @cotty said:

              I do prefer ultra-clean... 😉

              I recommend to enable Remove Duplicate Face only when you know there is an issue. It's extremely slow and not always reliable.

              Thank you for the tip!

              my SketchUp gallery

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              • A Offline
                AirWindSolar
                last edited by

                @thomthom said:

                That's strange... and troublesome. It means the issue stems from compound cleanup actions. hmm...

                Possibly the order of the operations? Sounds like removing duplicate faces simplified it enough that whatever was crashing could handle what was left after that specific operation.

                One thing I'm noticing is that, for example, the bicycles are 24 separate but apparently identical ~600kb groups. That adds a lot of complexity compared to having a couple dozen instances of a single component. Same thing with several doors, etc. How hard would it be to recognize identical groups/components/items, and replace all of the duplicates with instances of one? (Maybe with some minimum complexity and/or count so it's not making components of every triangle or rectangle that happens to have a single mate somewhere.)

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
                  last edited by

                  @airwindsolar said:

                  How hard would it be to recognize identical groups/components/items, and replace all of the duplicates with instances of one? (Maybe with some minimum complexity and/or count so it's not making components of every triangle or rectangle that happens to have a single mate somewhere.)

                  I had a stab at that a few years ago: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30143
                  But I never got around to finish it. It quickly becomes non-trivial.

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

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                  • A Offline
                    AirWindSolar
                    last edited by

                    Another thought on this one; not sure how hard it would be to calculate without saving, but a before and after file size, or percent reduction of the file size in the info box would be a handy bit of bragging if a user is wondering how much this saved them.

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                    • thomthomT Offline
                      thomthom
                      last edited by

                      That would not be realistically possible with any kind of accuracy. The fileformat changes from version to version and the filesize depend on how SU pack the bytes.

                      Also, the filesize is not a good indication for how complex or large the model is. You can have a model with millions of faces and tiny filesize due to using components. On the other hand, you could also have a huge filesize with only a cube in the model - if there are applied large textures, watermarks etc. Materials, attributes, styles, watermarks all skew the filesize.

                      CleanUp was never made for saving filesize - it was for making the model geometry cleaner and simpler, hopefully improving the performance of the model a little. (Some times you do notice a big filesize difference - which is most likely due to purging unused items, but that's just a bonus.)

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

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                      • pilouP Offline
                        pilou
                        last edited by

                        Why Clean Up after a Lattice Maker (by TIG) don't Clean coplanar thing ? 😮

                        Solid Solver by TIG make it ! 😎

                        Solid Inspector2 don't make it! 😮 (by ThomThom)
                        Protrude by Jim
                        Fredo Scale by Fredo6

                        What I miss ?

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                        why_not_clean.skp

                        Frenchy Pilou
                        Is beautiful that please without concept!
                        My Little site :)

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                        • K Offline
                          kaas
                          last edited by

                          @Thom - I'm curious - when using CleanUp3, the operation collapses the Outliner-list. Its the same behavior as choosing 'collapse all' when right-clicking on the level entry (the file name). Do you know what causes this behavior?


                          cleanup.gif

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                          • mariochaM Offline
                            mariocha
                            last edited by

                            I like localizing plugins. Helps me learn ruby. I found this one well written and thus a good teacher.
                            So it is now localized with LanguageHandler. And french strings. v 3.4.3
                            Should I get it signed before posting it here, or send it to you, or what ?
                            Cookies to you.
                            p.s.: I had to change the tooltips heredocs to strings, of course.
                            oh, also, no progressbar or status on Mac.

                            %(#008000)[Mario C.
                            Every rule has exceptions, but some.]

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                            • A Offline
                              ataman811
                              last edited by

                              Hi!
                              How can I translate your plugin into Russian?

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                              • OxerO Offline
                                Oxer
                                last edited by

                                I translated the plugin to Spanish language a long time ago for my own use but I made it translating the strings in the .rb files directly.
                                mariocha, can you share the strings file to translate it to Spanish? what did you do to give support to the .rb files to translate the plugin?

                                "The result is the end what is important is the process" by Oxer
                                [http://www.oxervision.blogspot.com/(http://www.oxervision.blogspot.com/)]

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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  CleanUp doesn't support translation right now.

                                  If you want to translate, add a comment in the issue tracker; https://bitbucket.org/thomthom/cleanup/issues/16/localize

                                  Mention what language you can contribute with.

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

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                                  • OxerO Offline
                                    Oxer
                                    last edited by

                                    @thomthom said:

                                    CleanUp doesn't support translation right now.

                                    If you want to translate, add a comment in the issue tracker; https://bitbucket.org/thomthom/cleanup/issues/16/localize

                                    Mention what language you can contribute with.

                                    Done!!

                                    P.S.: Thom, have you see your private messages, I sent you a message a week ago about UVToolKit plugin.

                                    "The result is the end what is important is the process" by Oxer
                                    [http://www.oxervision.blogspot.com/(http://www.oxervision.blogspot.com/)]

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                                    • highlanderH Offline
                                      highlander
                                      last edited by

                                      Hello,

                                      Can someone tell me why this menu does not work anymore??

                                      cleanup_white.PNG

                                      Sander Hoogland
                                      SketchUp 2018 pro - Vray
                                      Beeld3d

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                                      • TIGT Offline
                                        TIG Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        Try clearing the computer's Internet Explorer cache and restarting SketchUp to see if that helps...

                                        TIG

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                                        • pbacotP Offline
                                          pbacot
                                          last edited by

                                          Does anyone have some alternative plugins to this tool? It's pretty much useless in v.2019 except in the smallest drawings. Cleanup just takes too long now.

                                          I'd like another plugin that can remove lines without a face and coplanar lines. One that handles lonely vertices fast too would be great, but could be a separate tool (Fredo's tool works but I like the way CleanUp did it).

                                          Used to be the greatest tool in earlier SketchUp versions.

                                          MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                                          • M Offline
                                            Mochanic
                                            last edited by

                                            As I was saying on Youtube, I get a blank menu like the one in the attachment. What am I doing wrong?

                                            Also can you recommend an easy fix for all the holes that are created (like the ones in the 2nd attachment) when I import an STL file. It takes me HOURS to manually fix all the holes!

                                            Thanks for your help!


                                            just get this dark gray blank menu for some reason...


                                            whats an easy way to fix these holes, I have tried just about every tool I can find!

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