that worked, thankyou

hey guys, having an issue with monochrome either not working or not displaying correctly, in both 2014 and 2015. in monochrome the model only displays white faces instead of what i believe is the correct way with white being face side 1 and blue being side 2.

i need to get it displaying correctly so i can get my textures correct for export.

any ideas? thanks

hey guys im not sure where in the forums i should post this topic, i am going to try my luck here, i am trying to export a model from Archicad 17 to Sketchup. i have tried simply exporting a .skp file but everytime i hit save it says its exporting but doesn't progress, i even left it overnight and it didnt help. so then i tried saving as a .obj and using FluidImporter. both the version for Sketchup 2014 and Sketchup 7/8 as i have both installed.. but the 2014 version loads the model and then after says load fail in a small box and in sketchup 8 i just get bugsplat.. anyone have any idea on how i can successfully import an archicad model into sketchup?

thanks for the reply's guys. Ill look into them when i get a chance

Hey guys, i hope Im in the right area of this forum, Im just wondering if its possible to create a interactive rendered model?

for example, simply orbit/fly around a pre-rendered model of a building or spaceship the same way we can orbit/ fly around in the sketchup work space, but unable to edit the model or do anything other than view the model rendered from any angle and position desired.

if anyone could point me in the right direction it'd be appreciated.

thanks, ill be looking into all that right now

Hi mac1, thanks for the tips, i have ended up downloading and using sketchup 2014, which runs considerably better. not perfect, but if i do everything you guys suggest by changing my view, materials and settings, it runs smoothly..

But getting back the original question (which is probably my fault for not being more clear) was more asking why my computer cannot run it easily without having to do all this, id like to be able to, if its not the software limitations of course, be able to work with textures and when editing groups not have the rest of the model hidden..
Do i need more RAM? or do i need to add another or better graphics card? but as stated in previous posts, the cpu and memory stats are running about 20% each at these times

i think ill just add that i have just installed su 14, it was only fair after saying that i hated su 13, it runs better and my larger models, although still laggy, runs considerably better

Thanks Kaas, you may be on to something.. i had a though about what you suggested and as that particular model will take to long to try out, i opened another larger model, a ship i have been working on when i have nothing better to do, although with half the amount of edges and faces @ 423000 and 187000 but only 500 groups, runs reasonably well.
only issue is even with that, if i so much as select x-ray in the view settings, i get bugsplat. I have decided it must be sketchup unable to handle the larger edge numbers, or something like that.
maybe the newer versions of sketchup run better, i do not know, but i downloaded SU13 and i hated it and went back to 8

the grass is all 2d images but still this computer should find this easy especially when the task manager says memory and cpu usage is as low as it is