[Plugin] CleanUp

cotty · 8 Sept 2016, 16:53

@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!

AirWindSolar · 8 Sept 2016, 17:28

@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.)

thomthom · 12 Sept 2016, 12:21

@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.

AirWindSolar · 12 Oct 2016, 16:56

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.

thomthom · 13 Oct 2016, 09:35

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.)

pilou · 23 Feb 2017, 08:56

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 ?

why_not_clean.skp

kaas · 2 Mar 2017, 15:16

@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?

mariocha · 4 Dec 2017, 15:31

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.

ataman811 · 26 Apr 2018, 07:59

Hi!
How can I translate your plugin into Russian?

Oxer · 26 Apr 2018, 13:16

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?

thomthom · 26 Apr 2018, 15:27

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.

Oxer · 26 Apr 2018, 18:42

@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.

highlander · 5 Feb 2019, 08:15

Hello,

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

TIG · 5 Feb 2019, 12:38

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

pbacot · 7 Mar 2019, 17:54

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.

Mochanic · 11 Apr 2019, 08:40

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!

Mochanic · 12 Apr 2019, 02:52

@highlander said:

Hello,

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

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I have the exact same problem! It's been like this for over a year now. I wish someone could tell me how to fix it...

pbacot · 5 Jun 2019, 23:38

Hasn't anyone else had problems with this tool in v. 2019? It has slowed considerably as to be mostly useless (i.e. you can do the cleanup faster yourself). It seems to be related to file size though you are only working on a selection. The larger the file, the slower it is.

It's too bad. It was one of the greatest tools!

Dave R · 7 Jun 2019, 23:08

Which version of CleanUp are you using? I'm using CleanUp3 and it works as fast in v2019 as in any other version.

jkoll66 · 17 Jul 2019, 18:18

Unchecking "Validate Results" and "Erase Duplicate Faces" in the settings menu speeds things up immensely on larger models. If I want to erase duplicate faces later, I usually set it to go at the end of the day.

@pbacot said:

Hasn't anyone else had problems with this tool in v. 2019? It has slowed considerably as to be mostly useless (i.e. you can do the cleanup faster yourself). It seems to be related to file size though you are only working on a selection. The larger the file, the slower it is.

It's too bad. It was one of the greatest tools!