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    • Can someone show step by step a model "reduction" on pillow?

      Greetings.

      I've been doing some modeling with sketchup for a while and I have pretty good luck with all the linear models.
      However, I've been struggling with the more organic shapes.
      I've purchased and downloaded a number of plugins, as well, so I am not opposed to trying that when it works.

      At the same time, I am supporting my GF who is a new Interior designer. She can also make many models herself and is struggling to learn at same time.
      The big challenge is she's Russian and it seems Russian's in general are less generous to share their knowledge & expertise with their country members.
      The bottom line, is that I end up needing to find most of of the sketchup answers for her πŸ˜‰

      Anyway, I pose here what I hope is a relatively strait forward question.
      We don't like to "re-invent" every model for Interior design and prefer to focus on those which are strategic or necessarily custom. So, I have this pillow, (which could be representative of the general problem). It has many faces/vertices and saves as Sketchup 8 file of 5MB.. See attached file.
      .. I cannot get file to upload properly, perhaps because of size, so here are 2 direct links to the 5MB .SKP file
      -----> Option 1: http://www.box.com/s/51qsulsxe4cz8iecu9sy
      -----> Option 2: http://www.box.com/shared/static/51qsulsxe4cz8iecu9sy.skp

      Basically, it's gigantic for what it needs to be.

      I've run the option for "Purge unused" from the faces & there are not large "textures" applied. It's basically, all about the geometry. Originally, this file has come from 3dsMAX and imported as .OBJ file into sketchup.. There are a couple of "optimization" options in 3dsMax (I have very little competence with this program also), and this helps a little, but in general is "breaking" the model. I am trying the "Cleanup" plugin now on a slightly larger version of this problem (and it claims to need 8 more hours to finish)... And most recently, I have stumbled across the VizUp tool (http://www.vizup.com/index.html) and will try to evaluate that. While I realize there is probably no silver bullet answer to this kind of question, I would appreciate some tips as to how to deal with this kind of situation for models in general (given what has already been tried). In the end, we are seeking to do semi-photo realistic rendering using V-Ray for Sketchup, so that's why there is some level of quality required in the model (otherwise, I think the render will be broken when texture is applied)..

      Thanks for any feedback and expert tips.

      Kind Regards
      Shawn

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    • RE: [Plugin][$] RoundCorner - v3.4a - 31 Mar 24

      @tig said:

      I have already told the Driving Dimensions author [Dmitry Ushakov] about the conflicts the tool has with other plugins about a month ago - the faults are on his side because he messes with base class/methods... It seemed OK in v8, but v7 was causing problems with a few tools [similar to SketchyPhysics] - but your problem occurs in v8 ? ...
      πŸ˜’

      Yes. Problem occurs in SU Pro 8 (installed on both Windows XP & Windows 7 machines).

      Thx
      Shawn

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    • RE: [Plugin][$] RoundCorner - v3.4a - 31 Mar 24

      @stoneshawnp said:

      Thanks TIG. I am learning a bit more about the Architecture here.
      I renamed my Plugin's directory & created a new empty one.
      Then I started re-installing the Plugin's 1-by-1, and so far RoundCorners as such, is working again.
      When (if) i figure out the offending Plugin, I will post it here.

      Thanks for helping a Newbie! πŸ˜‰

      Small Update...

      I went through 1-by-1 and re-installed every plugin I have until I found the conflict with RoundCorners.. It seem to be the Ledas Driving Dimensions (http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=13808&hilit=ledas+driving+dimension or otherwise http://drivingdimensions.com/. When I disable this plugin, my "BugSplats" with RoundCorners disappear.

      ... Great Forum! also very interested to see the feedback to the Texture question just posted πŸ˜‰

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    • RE: [Plugin][$] RoundCorner - v3.4a - 31 Mar 24

      Thanks TIG. I am learning a bit more about the Architecture here.
      I renamed my Plugin's directory & created a new empty one.
      Then I started re-installing the Plugin's 1-by-1, and so far RoundCorners as such, is working again.
      When (if) i figure out the offending Plugin, I will post it here.

      Thanks for helping a Newbie! πŸ˜‰

      posted in Plugins
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    • RE: [Plugin][$] RoundCorner - v3.4a - 31 Mar 24

      @gaieus said:

      I have Tgi and round corner under the same SU 8 install (on XP) and have never had an issue. Try to remove Tgi plugin (or rather simply rename the tgi3d.rbs to something else with a different extension like tgi3d.txt) and restart SU. See if round corner crashes now.

      Thanks! That was a followup question actually, how to "deactivate" or "uninstall" a Plugin.. Some seem to be just very simple Ruby scripts (not that I know how to read them, I don't), but others (like TGI3d Amorph) seem to propagate through many of the menus, etc.. and do not offer an obvious "uninstall/deactivate" option that I could see.

      Anyway, tried what you said (eg. renaming TGI3DS.RPS to *.TXT and observed 2 things
      (1) ALL things related to TGI3dS disappeared from SU 8 (cool)
      (2) My BugSplat on Edging 1 face of a simple cube is still there (Not cool)

      Any other suggestions? I have attached the new BugSplat log files for any of you why can glean something from them? πŸ˜‰
      Help!

      Thx, Shawn


      BugSplat files w/TGI3dS disabled

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      stoneshawnp
    • RE: [Plugin][$] RoundCorner - v3.4a - 31 Mar 24

      Greetings.

      I am somewhat new to the forum & just getting into the whole Plugin's scene, but very excited.
      I have enjoyed the RoundCorner tool for sometime, but after installing the "training" version of TGI3D Amorph (link below), now I get a "Bug Splat" everytime I try to execute a "RoundCorners" option, even on the most simple box. I have updated the Fredo6 Library to 4.2, but the results are the same. Does anyone have any ideas?

      http://www.tgi3d.com/index.php?Page=Download

      Thanks for any feedback, Shawn
      Google Splat Log files for this problem

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      stoneshawnp