Medeek Plumbing

medeek

I spent about an hour trying to figure out the best way to model some of these plumbing fittings for the upcoming plumbing extension. The most basic or commonly encountered of which is probably the 90 deg. elbow or quarter turn. I decided to use the default 24 segments in a circle so that the fitting doesn’t look too blocky but now I am worried about the polycount. Here is a precisely modeled elbow (1-1/2", ABS DWV, Part No. 300).

All dimensions are in agreement with the Charlotte dimensional catalog (pg. 28). My concern is that the file/component size is 112 Kb, is this too large? There will be many such fittings in a given plumbing model, then again maybe I am overthinking this.

I will probably have to model all these fittings by hand, especially if I want them to be low poly and clean. The problem I have found with bringing in models from other vendors is that they are often messy and not even dimensionally accurate to their own documentation. I end up spending more time trying to clean things up when it is sometimes easier to create a clean model from scratch.

Rich O Brien

@medeek said in Medeek Plumbing:

112 Kb

That's light.

barvulli

My average sketchup model is about 35mb (full home render). Even that seems small in today's file sizes.

barvulli

Also, (only because I'm eagerly anticipating the plumbing release) have you considered crowdsourcing the modeling on these? Create a list on design.medeek.com that can be checked off when you receive a model that matches your requirements?