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    • pilouP Offline
      pilou
      last edited by

      Does exist a limit size of the importation of a format file DWG or DXF in SU? 1 mega, 10 megas 100 megas...
      It is the same for SU free or SU PRO?

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

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      • R Offline
        remus
        last edited by

        i've never heard of an explicit size limit.

        If your having trouble importing a large file id guess it was something to do with memory usage...

        http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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        • pilouP Offline
          pilou
          last edited by

          THX! So problem is elsewhere ๐Ÿ˜‰

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

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          • GaieusG Offline
            Gaieus
            last edited by

            What's the unit, Pilou (before I try to suffer with it in vain)?

            Gai...

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            • pilouP Offline
              pilou
              last edited by

              Can you reload this file in SU? (2.8 megas )
              Model by XADA

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

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              • GaieusG Offline
                Gaieus
                last edited by

                The units, Pilou, the measurement units. Well, I guessed that you aren't a footric guy so imported it in millimetres but the the church turned out to have a roofline of less than a centimetre so I guess I should've imported it in metres. Am I correct? (You know, with dxf/dwg files you have to know the untits they were created to import them correctly).

                Anyway, it came in so small that a bunch of faces are missing so I'll try to import it in metres.

                Gai...

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                • pilouP Offline
                  pilou
                  last edited by

                  Normally it's an autocad file 2007 DWG but seems impossible to reload it inside SU ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

                  http://forum.zbrush.fr/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3904.0;attach=7690;image

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

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                  • pilouP Offline
                    pilou
                    last edited by

                    ah! No idea of original units!
                    It's not my file ๐Ÿ˜‰
                    And I have not Autocad ๐Ÿ˜’
                    But enjoy that you can reload something โ˜€

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

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                    • GaieusG Offline
                      Gaieus
                      last edited by

                      Well, it did come into SU. Interesting that the progress bar runs to 99% within less than a second and then it starts hanging there (but eventually loads the file). Now importing it in metres... Hold on!

                      Gai...

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                      • pilouP Offline
                        pilou
                        last edited by

                        yes 99% but after? never more alas for me ๐Ÿ˜’
                        In the import option better to keep "original drawing"?

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

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                        • GaieusG Offline
                          Gaieus
                          last edited by

                          Well, it definitely seems to take longer (forever?) to import in metres now (still working). ๐Ÿ˜’

                          Don't preserve drawing origin (generally) with CAD imports because if they are georeferenced (like mostly), they may get imported to somewhere (sometimes even hundreds of) miles away from the SU origin and you'll have all the OpenGL issues like clipping and distorting until you move everything back to the origin eventually anyway.


                          My "right" CPU core is working hard and SU uses some 230 Mb of memory. ๐Ÿ˜„
                          Nice model, BTW. Is that a particular church or just a "general"one?

                          Gai...

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                          • pilouP Offline
                            pilou
                            last edited by

                            I use also Doublecad without success ๐Ÿ˜ฎ
                            I suspect a "loop" inside ๐Ÿค“

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

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                            • GaieusG Offline
                              Gaieus
                              last edited by

                              OK, it's done. There are a couple of glitches like non-coplanar (and even missing) faces here and there (see attached) but overall it came through quite fine. Nice church, indeed.

                              Pilou.jpg
                              It's a bit more than 10 Mb now. Would you like it? ๐Ÿ˜„

                              Gai...

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                              • pilouP Offline
                                pilou
                                last edited by

                                So I was not enough patient ๐Ÿ˜„
                                Is there a particular protocol in Autocad for manage project for reload it in SU?

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

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                                • GaieusG Offline
                                  Gaieus
                                  last edited by

                                  Mo9del more accurately than whoever made this model (see those glitches with the curved faces). Other than that, no (with 3D models at least). I've uploaded it to my server. Do you want me to send you the link?

                                  Gai...

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                                  • pilouP Offline
                                    pilou
                                    last edited by

                                    Thx for the Skypy! ๐Ÿ˜Ž
                                    here speedy render in Podium ๐Ÿ˜‰ (without rebuild of glitchtes ๐Ÿ˜‰


                                    paray.jpg


                                    paray1.jpg

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

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                                    • GaieusG Offline
                                      Gaieus
                                      last edited by

                                      Looks nice. These Medieval monks must have wasted a fortune of candles for that render! ๐Ÿ˜„

                                      Gai...

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                                      • pilouP Offline
                                        pilou
                                        last edited by

                                        I have more info about the model ๐Ÿ˜‰
                                        It was a 2 years ago model, and a "work model" so some pieces were around ๐Ÿ˜‰

                                        Any idea about time importation / speed of processor ?
                                        for determinate if it's a normal ratio "size of file / importation time"

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

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                                        • GaieusG Offline
                                          Gaieus
                                          last edited by

                                          Well, looking at the times of my answers, it took about half an hour to import. The machine is a Eurocom D700 T Enigma with a CPU is 3.8 GHz Intel Pentium 4 (with hyperthreading but it doesn't matter in this case).

                                          Gai...

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                                          • pilouP Offline
                                            pilou
                                            last edited by

                                            Seems blocks explosion take also a very long time! ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

                                            http://forum.zbrush.fr/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3904.0;attach=7704;image

                                            http://forum.zbrush.fr/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3904.0;attach=7706;image

                                            http://forum.zbrush.fr/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3904.0;attach=7707;image

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

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