Hello everybody,

I'm modelling a stadium, in which I want to align VIP boxes of identical size along a path, which persists of equally long edges:

I struggle to position the very last box accurately. When rotating the box, it moves slightly away from the center point of the rotation, thus it never aligns perfectly with the edge it should be aligned with.

So far I've tried to rotate the entire model by say 15°, align the box as planned and it worked. But: After rotating it back by the same 15° or saving and re-opening the model, the object slightly moves out of position again. This is really weird and frustrating behavior and really the first time, I expierence that kind of inaccuracy.

I've uploaded the model here:

http://www.file-upload.net/download-8919881/su_problem.skp.html

Maybe you can have a look at it and verify the problem or better even solve it?

Any advice/help is very much appreciated!

Thank you and best
Markus

@liam887 said:

Next purchase Pete:

http://www.maximumpc.com/intel_release_8-core_haswell-e_desktop_processors_third_quarter_2014

Just wondering: A second Titan would cost as much and increase render speed to a greater extent, wouldn't it?

@solo said:

@unknownuser said:

@Solo: Did the card arrive yet? If so, please let us know about the rendering experience with Thea's GPU render engine

It did indeed and it's installed.

I decided to take Giannis's advice (Thea developer) and keep my existing GTX 660ti 3GB and add the Titan in next PCI express slot, I kept my dual monitors connected to GTX 660 and left it as main GPU.

Now in Lumion and Thea I set it's priority in the Geforce settings panel for the Titan as top card so now when I work (render) the Titan takes on all the work and my other card is pretty free to still surf net, work in Photoshop etc.

I did a test using a Thea bench mark scene.

That's s/p 883.

When beta testing (without Titan) I got s/p 330.

As you can see Thea used the Titan the 660 and the CPU.

So as you can see the Titan made my rendering almost 3x faster.

Thx for the update. Appreciated!

@solo said:

Well, I just did it, placed an order on Amazon for a Titan, expedited to arrive Friday. Base camp may be out of reach as I spent $1000 on a video card (wife cannot understand these things, kids think my work machine is their next gaming rig...dream on)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BL8BX7O/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_doce

Would like to see how a GTX 660ti and a Titan work together for rendering.

@Solo: Did the card arrive yet? If so, please let us know about the rendering experience with Thea's GPU render engine

Thanks for your opinions.

So understand that CPU is the bottle neck in SU. Problem is: it does not get much faster than what I already have

@liam: 50.000.000

@solo: Love your avatar

Hi there,

my high-poly SU models (50.000.000+ edges) won't orbit as smoothly as I'd like them to.

So far I'm using 16GB RAM, an Intel Core i7-3770 CPU, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX570 GPU.

I wonder if there is a GPU, which would signficantly increase my machine's performance in SU and the rendering times in Thea Render at the same time.

Thea Render recently posted this on their forums: http://www.thearender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17%26amp;t=13779

This seems to suggest that a GeForce GTX Titan would do the trick at rendering, but I'd only consider getting one if also the performance in SU improves massively (rendering time is not that crucial to me).

I'd be happy to hear about your experience on Geforce GTX Titan vs. Quadro cards for SU specifically

Thanks!
Markus

@dave r said:

Well, I can't help you with the automatic replacement when you open the master file. As I told you in my last PM, I do almost all of my drawing and editing in situ and this is one of the reasons.

Maybe it would be possible for a plugin to automate the replacement of components but I'm not the guy for that.

Alright, thx for the effort anyway!

@dave r said:

Alright. Let's see if this makes it clearer.

1. Make a folder some place on your computer. Call it 'Sectors'
2. Save your sector components in it as individual SKP files. In your stadium model, right click on each sector in turn and choose Save as... Make sure they all get saved in the sector folder.
3. Open the Components window (Window menu) in SketchUp.
4. click on the Details button to the left of the search line that shows "3D Warehouse."
5. choose Open or Create a Local Collection.
6. Navigate to the folder called 'Sectors.'
7. Click on Details again and choose 'Add to favorites.'

Now you have a library of your stadium sectors.

8. Open a SketchUp session and open one of the sectors. Let's say it is Sector A Save it when you're finished.
9. Open your stadium file. Select Sector A in the model.
10. Go to the Sectors library in the Components window. Right click on Sector A there and choose Replace Selected. (Notice there is no Reload option in this case.)

At this point Sector A should have been replaced with the edited version.

I did this with some table leg components.

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Here's some legs with mortises in the sides.

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I opened the leg component in a separate file and removed the mortises.

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Then I right clicked on the leg component in the Components window and chose Replace selected. Presto! the edited version of the legs without mortises appear in the model.

Okay, so this works fine as described

However, it is still not what I ultimately would like to achieve. I'd like steps 9 and 10 to be done automatically every time I reopen the stadium file. Just like a website would behave if I hit the reload button of the browser. Otherwise I will probably forget to "update" a few sectors or it will take me forever to replace all the sectors (there are jus too many ).

Thx ... will try that first thing tomorrow morning! Good night!

@dave r said:

It sounds like you weren't doing it correctly? Did you actually make a separate library for the sectors? And were you trying to replace the sectors from that library?

Okay, I did this:

1. Saved my sector file into a specific folder
2. Opened the stadium file, put in a reduced low poly version of the sector and saved.
3. Closed and reopened the stadium file, selected the low poly version of the sector, openend the component browser, navigated towards the folder from 1)
4. Replaced the low poly version by the high poly sector from the library.
5. Closed the stadium file.
6. Changed and saved the high poly sector file.
7. Reopened the stadium file and hoped to see the sector changed. That wasn't the case
8. Went to Sketchucation and started this thread