Things that bring Sketchup to a coma.
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Hi all,
I am trying to make a list of commands in Sketchup that makes the software unresponsive or abnormally slow on medium sized files.
Maybe it can be of use to the SU dev team when they consider taking a look under the hood for a next version.Here's my list so far. I am sure users will be able to add a lot more.
'Coma' commands:
- Right click a material icon in the material browser and choose "save texture as".
- Turn 'on' shadows.
- Having the outliner panel open while doing a operation (e.g a ruby)
- In component browser: change to 'in model' when you have quite a number of components
- In material browser: change to 'in model' when you have quite a number of materials
- 'Window' menu > 'Model Info': Trying to change the North angle and 'show in Model'
- Styles panel: about everything you do in there.
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- Any ruby that moves/creates a lot of geometry. Ive got a feeling smoothing is also quite a coma prone operation when done on a large scale.
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#8 Exploding (it seems that if I iterate manually over a selection of groups it's faster than if I perform the explode function on the whole lot at the same time.)
#9 Having turned of textured materials because the model is too slow and then paint with a textured material, or import a component with a textured material turns the style back on to textured materials. I think it even turn on transparency which really cause havoc.) Why does SU insist on messing with my set style. I've configured it as I want it, and I don't want SU being 'clever'.
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Every now and again SU crashes and when you restart the app you get.......
#10
The time it takes to re-align your icons because for some reason you cannot lock your tool bar, sure this is not a 'coma' program issue it it a bloody waste of time and very annoying.
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@solo said:
The time it takes to re-align your icons because for some reason you cannot lock your tool bar, sure this is not a 'coma' program issue it it a bloody waste of time and very annoying.
I sure bring me into a coma.
It's like having a Tasmanian devil suddenly trash your office desk. -
11 Extensive and sole use of the line tool=Bug Splat
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#12 Export to 2D DWG/DXF. I think the act of flattening the model brings it to a crawl.
#13 Print to High accuracy HLR PDF. Again the use of vector information causes the coma. Often the patient never wakes up on this one!
#14 Print to PDF with lots of high poly components and shadows on
#15 Export to 2500 pixels or more with shadows and styles. I often resort to a screen capture than wait for the export to take effect on larger models.
#16 Sandbox on complex terrain -
@kenny said:
#15 Export to 2500 pixels or more with shadows and styles. I often resort to a screen capture than wait for the export to take effect on larger models.
I dont suppose your using SU6? image export is much better in 7, to the extent that i can export to the max allowable resolution.
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@remus said:
I dont suppose your using SU6? image export is much better in 7, to the extent that i can export to the max allowable resolution.
You mean you DO suppose... Or don't suppose he's using SU 7?
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I think the main problem with the coma, for me, isn't even that those operations are so slow. But the lack of a progress bar on so many of those functions is quite scary. Is it doing something? Is this something going to take 2 minutes or 2 hours? Is it almost done or should I just End Program and restart?
And worse than no progress bar is that if I do anything other than just sit and stare at the little sands of time icon, say click over to the internet window, SU goes totally white until it either Bugsplats or finishes its operation.
-Brodie
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This is true. I also wonder sometimes whether I should go out for a drink with the buddies instead of staring at the monitor hoping it will finish soon...
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@gaieus said:
This is true. I also wonder sometimes whether I should go out for a drink with the buddies instead of staring at the monitor hoping it will finish soon...
I say compromise. Have a drink in front or your computer screen. If you have dual monitors, you can have Windows Media Player open on one monitor and you can zone out to the psychedelic colors it makes.
Hrm...perhaps a thread is in order so that we can collectively come up with a list of things you can do while SU is comatose.
-Brodie
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@unknownuser said:
Hrm...perhaps a thread is in order so that we can collectively come up with a list of things you can do while SU is comatose.
I thought we all did the same thing, bitch and moan on this forum while we wait for SU to be ressurected.
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@solo said:
@unknownuser said:
Hrm...perhaps a thread is in order so that we can collectively come up with a list of things you can do while SU is comatose.
I thought we all did the same thing, bitch and moan on this forum while we wait for SU to be ressurected.
Sure do. Either SU or waiting for a render to complete. I got dual monitors, but could sure do with a third one.
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I also have two monitors; one at home and one at work...
(Sorry, I couldn't resist) -
At work we just got a new computer for rendering (I think the specs are in my sig) but my old computer is in the cubicle next to me so right now I've got 2 computers and 4 monitors about 12' apart. I've been having huge issues trying to do site work (sandbox + JPP + 1 square mile = 3-5 hour coma or Bugsplat). Several times lately I've ran some of the more lengthy operations on my old computer so it could just sit there and I could at least glance over at the progress bar occassionally.
Sadly, this hasn't helped much. I'm resolute to try and learn Rhino enough to be able to do my site stuff there asap.
-Brodie
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#17 copy/paste objects from one "bigger" skp file to another is insanely slow - it took me half an hour (freeze!) to insert a tree with only 70k polys into a model... 3dsmax did it in 5 seconds...
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Say to yourself "I'll back up this file right after I finish this little thing." ' Works every time.
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@alan fraser said:
Say to yourself "I'll back up this file right after I finish this little thing." ' Works every time.
LMAO
dude thats what i alwys do!!and them BAM i lost an hour of work
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