Elisei
Thanks for that. Your example is I SU2016 format - I am using 2015 and therefore your model won't open. Could you kindly save in 2015 format and post here please, so I can see what you have done. Tanks so much.

Box
Thanks for your suggestions here and the other forum. I am working on both of them. I appreciate your help.

Richard C

I have part of a model made up of 4 groups of differing shapes to form the nose cone of a submersible vessel.

Each has been created using Soap Skin and Bubble and I am happy with the result. However, bring the groups together in preparation to explode and combine, the edges of each group result in obvious raised ridges, particularly visible when the geometry is imported into Blender.

Having combined the groups, is there a plug-in that can re-model the mesh into quads so that loop cuts can be used to smooth the ridges. I have tried Quad Face Tools but can't get it to do what is needed. I have also tried Curviloft but that doesn't produce the quad mesh I think is needed to solve the problem. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Richard C.

The geometry - the joint is the problem area.

I have optimised jpg images I use as textures. In making a .skm copy using the 'save as' command in the material browser dialog, the resulting .skm file is much bigger than the original .jpg. Typically a 25k jpg is saved as a 450k .skm. Is this right and if so is there a fix for making the .skm file to the size of the original jpg. I have a model using 4 such images and the model file size is 1.5mb - far too big.

Thanks in advance

Richard C

Thank you Jiminy and Pilou. I checked Light Up out and you are both correct - perfect for what I need.

Thanks for pointing me in that direction

Richard C

I have nearly completed a model that is intended to be viewed on our company website. I am unsure of the process to go from the Sketchup model to fully rendered file that can be viewed in a 3d model viewer.

I realise the rendering can be accomplished using any number of rendering software programmes which can be used within Sketchup, all of which seem to save into 2d images only.

I assume Sketchup does not export a photorealistic rendered model from the likes of Shaderlight, Podium etc, therefore what software is best to render the model and produce the necessary realistic model for viewing in a web based 3d viewer.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Richard C