Thanks guys, especially Thomthom and Gaieus. Perfect!

I had seen that option, and those template files before, but with all the names being measurement related, I had wrongly assumed it was only for handling the measurement settings.

When I start a new Sketchup file I'd like to start off with a totally empty scene (no Bryce) and with Profiles turned off (only 'Display Edges' turned on). The repetitive task of deleting Bryce and adjusting the style settings every time I start a new file is getting a little irritating, although by no means a big issue.

So I was wondering if and how I can change the default new scene, and/or permanently change the default style theme.

By the way, I'm using Sketchup 6 Pro.

Thanks.

Thanks for all your replies.

I had thought of making each face a separate group, but on top of the impracticability of this, each group was being treated as a separate entity in the 3D engine I was using.

I tried this out with some other 3d modelling packages, and Sketchup was actually doing a just as good, or even better job than all the other software I tried. So with that, along with AdamB's reply, I'll accept this as normal and perfectly fine.

Very nice

Hi.

I've been using Sketchup Pro for a few years now, and have just started using it for a little bit of game development. Of course, due to this, a low polygon count is preferable.

Here is my issue. This is a simple mesh I made in Sketchup:
Now, when exporting to .3ds, this is how I would expect the mesh to be triangulated: Which would be 26 polygons.

However, this is how Sketchup actually triangulates it when exporting: Which is 36 polygons and seems quite wasteful. I tried exporting to Obj and Fbx too with the same results.

Now obviously, the difference between 26 and 36 polygons really doesn't matter, but on a larger scale these extra polygons are going to start adding up.

I'm using Sketchup 6 pro at the moment. I did try Sketchup 7 when it was released, but I just didn't feel comfortable with it for some reason. So I stuck with Sketchup 6 since I was perfectly happy with it. Is this something which is improved upon in Sketchup 7? If it is I would be willing to upgrade to Sketchup 7. If not, does anybody know any free, or commercial exporters for sketchup which do a better job than the default exporters?

Thanks for any help and info.