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    • Paint bucket tool

      A couple of issues with the painted faces on my models:

      I must preface this post by saying it seems I have these problems when my model file sizes start to get large, because it's happened on many of my models. This problem is a little hard to explain but I'll do my best.

      My first problem is Sketchup will arbitrarily change the default material to one of the materials within my model. Once this happens, a lot of the backs of the faces will then change to the default texture, which is now an actual texture within my model. The biggest problem with this is that my rendering program, Twilight Render, will render the back side of the faces instead of the front a lot of times (I don't know why) and I will end up with a rendering with the incorrect material showing. I then have to go back in and paint the back of the faces with the same color as the front in order for it to render properly. Even after I paint the backs to match the front, Sketchup will for no apparent reason change it back again, or do it to a different face, or all of the above. I assume I must be doing something wrong, or is it a glitch?

      My second problem is that one of the textures within my model all of the sudden became transparent without me telling it to. When I select the material it now displays in the materials window like the transparent textures do with the diagonal line in the box and half of the texture transparent. How can I change it back to a solid texture? It wasn't this way before.


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    • RE: Sketchup slow and/or crashes

      These are all great suggestions, none of which I've tried. I'm a self-taught Sketchup user, so I don't know many of the tricks. I will give these a shot! In addition to this, is there any hardware upgrades I can do to help speed things up? Is a 285 MB drawing pushing the boundaries of what Sketchup is capable of? Thanks for your insight!

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    • Sketchup slow and/or crashes

      I use Sketchup primarily for building and landscape models. Since I almost always have 3d trees, plants and other high poly models with huge file sizes, once I get to a certain stage, my computer either locks up or I get a "bug splat" and have to reload the drawing. The drawing I'm currently working on is up to 285 MB. It's getting to the point that I'm getting "bug splats" and lock-ups on a very regular basis, and the program is moving very, very slow. While I understand a drawing of this size is probably rare for Sketchup, is there anything I can do to upgrade my computer, even if money were no object, to have a completely seamless, problem-free drawing experience - or - is Sketchup not capable of drawings of this size and complexity, regardless of the computing power? I'm willing to accept that if it's the truth, and I certainly don't want to spend any money on upgrading my computer if it's not going to do anything. Maybe it's time for a different program that can handle larger, more complex drawings?

      The specs of my current computer are as follows:

      Intel Core I7-4770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz
      32 GB RAM
      64-Bit
      Windows 8.1
      AMD Radeon R9 270 video card

      Please help!!!

      Jeff

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