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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      @gaieus said:

      OK, it may be correct and thanks for that insight, Thom. Yet it would definitely decrease file size which is the basic issue here so that Laura can upload the model to the Warehouse.

      Ah yes. forgot about that.

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

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        laura_aut
        last edited by

        However decreasing pixel size ("physical" size) of the images - i.e. resizing them - should still help both performance (if the card is crappy) and file size so I'm eagerly awaiting any results from that.<

        I will decrease the pixel size of all the pictures and I hope it works πŸ˜‰
        This bedroom took me so much time that it would be a pity to put it aside πŸ˜„

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          laura_aut
          last edited by

          @thomthom said:

          I got an ATI Radeon 9800 on my old computer at home. Still handles SU very well. Though, I'm not sure the difference between the cards.

          Sketchupis known to have issues with certain ATI cards. And especially older drivers. You could be suffering from a bad driver.

          So I suppose I should update my graphic card drivers... 😍 yheeeaaaaa!!!

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          • BurkhardB Offline
            Burkhard
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            Two months ago I got a model with 118 MB and the client had the same problems. I have had reduced it to 1,36 MB without textures ( If he had let me finished some landscapes, I'm sure it would be under 1MB) Now it is completely finished ( by the client), including the textures and it is not more than 16 MB.

            Purging and delete unneeded Geometrie reduce the file size only with 4MB.
            After different steps with deleting textures, copying in a new instance and look for bad Geometrie I had success.

            The most times I found that there is a lot bad Geometrie that forces Sketchup to long calculations which will multiplied with forthcoming modeling.

            So, a new Graphiccard is just a short step in relation to a clean way to model.

            [http://www.ia-plus.de(http://www.ia-plus.de)]

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              laura_aut
              last edited by

              Ohhhh DONE!! DONE.... DONE!!!
              You were right, pictures were too big, oh guys thanks...thanks...thanks πŸ˜„
              This is what I did: into the SU material menu i saved the pictures into another folder in Jpeg format, than I resized them into paint because they were too big for my model. If you see the model, on the desk there is a picture of a dog, the original one was a 7mpixel picture of 5Mb, an so were the other ones (4 or 2 Mb...too big). In this way I obtained pictures of the size I needed for my components and the right lightness (an average of 25 kb)without loosing quality.
              This is the link to my model, if you want to criticize it...you can speak freely πŸ˜„

              Error 404 (Not Found)!!1

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              (sketchup.google.com)

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                laura_aut
                last edited by

                @burkhard said:

                Two months ago I got a model with 118 MB and the client had the same problems. I have had reduced it to 1,36 MB without textures ( If he had let me finished some landscapes, I'm sure it would be under 1MB) Now it is completely finished ( by the client), including the textures and it is not more than 16 MB.

                Purging and delete unneeded Geometrie reduce the file size only with 4MB.
                After different steps with deleting textures, copying in a new instance and look for bad Geometrie I had success.

                The most times I found that there is a lot bad Geometrie that forces Sketchup to long calculations which will multiplied with forthcoming modeling.

                So, a new Graphiccard is just a short step in relation to a clean way to model.

                I agree with you, who knows how many mistakes I've done, but I have this kind of problems even if I download any kind of model from the 3d gallery which is more complex...like an house, or a flat, etc.. As I wrote before, SU moves in jerks....even with modells drawn by others. I think this is due to the graphic card 😞
                If you have some time to waste, I'll be thankful if you could find out if my model has many bad geometries or not....but if you can't don't care about my request.
                Thanks Laura πŸ˜„

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
                  last edited by

                  Good to hear that it's worked out.
                  Though, it do sound you can benefit from some better hardware. Maybe a new card is all you need. It really depend in what your Sketchup usage is.

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

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                    laura_aut
                    last edited by

                    @thomthom said:

                    Good to hear that it's worked out.
                    Though, it do sound you can benefit from some better hardware. Maybe a new card is all you need. It really depend in what your Sketchup usage is.

                    A new pc would be better πŸ˜„
                    Unfortunately this is only an hobby..I'm not an architect or a designer and I've never read a SU tutorial, so my usage is an amateur one.
                    Thanks again for your useful advices πŸ˜„

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                    • GaieusG Offline
                      Gaieus
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                      πŸ‘
                      When I have a little (more) time, I'll definitely download your model and criticise. (I knowthere are still problems in it)
                      πŸ˜„

                      Gai...

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                      • BurkhardB Offline
                        Burkhard
                        last edited by

                        Be sure, I have found a lot.

                        [http://www.ia-plus.de(http://www.ia-plus.de)]

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