Are you on Sketchup Pro 2013?

It works perfectly on Sketchup Pro 8 but once you save a file in Sketchup 2013 you can never go back. So many huge models stuck in 2013 so I was losing my mind trying to model in 2013 without Plugins. Finally figured out the disable Vray workaround. Thank god!

Yeah Round Corner, Weld, Purge, Curve Maker, Curviloft all crash instantly or as soon as the process is over. If you disable the Vray Extension they work perfect. Its a workaround but I hope they fix it soon.

The new version of Vray is awesome other than making most plugins crash when its enabled. The proxy feature lets you put almost unlimited high poly (I tried multiplying car models to the horizon and it worked) You can use more than 20 3D trees (the limit in old Vray)

The grass was a last minute addition I think i have it worked out better now.

New project using Vray Proxies extensively!

Check it out!

Haven't posted in a while. Here's a project I'm working on at the moment!

Just some recent work for an apartment complex client. Thought they came out great.

Check em out!

Working from construction drawings speeds up the process I've cranked out models faster from sketches

Maxwell was used to accurately model the lighting from an HDRI and many elements from the Podium model pack bring a bit of realism to a smaller budget render.

I did this one in 4 hours from a JPG architectural sketch

Cranked this one out in half a day for a client. Thought it came out great!

The interior renders had something like 250 lights, half IES, half rectangular lights for the can lights in the ceiling. It broke VRay to render them at 1280x960.

I have been using Vray for years and never seen this problem. The render took 7 hours at 1280x960 and at the last hour these artifacts showed up. I checked the memory usage for sketchup and it was 3.2-3.4gigs in the task manager.

If I render smaller 640x480 its fine. If I try to render larger than 1280x960 it never reaches the frame buffer.

Any ideas?

Render this!

Some conceptual interiors for this project!

A cool project bringing new life into an abandoned 700,000 sq foot office building in the heart of Detroit, MI. I went the NPR route to explain the project for a quick proposal. It came out great for the time invested.

Existing abandoned building linked below.

http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?encType=1&where1=1200+6th+St%2c+Detroit%2c+MI+48226&cp=42.3288040161133~-83.059326171875&qpvt=1200+sixth+street+detroit+mi&FORM=MIRE

Check it out!

A unique project with some very saturated, vibrant corporate colors, client wanted a render to verify owners material selections because of its polarizing colors. Sundai has traditional Japanese Schools in Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Malaysia, Shanghai, Pudong, and one in MICHIGAN?

Check it out! VFSU & Photoshop.

New material test.

The armchair as well as most of the furniture in the model are from the Podium Browser PAID version. It is an excellent timesaver and the models are high quality.

Used a different visopt for better light, check it out.

Mine doesn't slow down ever, there was one time I tried to load 20 floors of fully furnished apartments into a high-rise and it froze for 5 minutes but the floors loaded and rendered after the freeze.