Sketchup 2018 Models

[Alysha]

Iam having the same problem. I added several models (which I was in the middle of designing) over the last couple of days and when I tried to access them today they were not showing up. I have made sure i was using Trimble connect to look for them. The only model that is showing up is the one I saved today.

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These low-end Quadro cards are slow and practically useless - meant for 2D AutoCad work.

High-end Quadro cards are a waste of money, high-end GeForce cards are more powerful and less expensive. There is no benefit of using quadros for SketchUp.

Depends on how much you have in the budget, the better the computer, in general the better it will run SketchUp. Main learnings after using lots of combinations is try to run GTX over Quardo, no benefit really especially for the price point as @Anssi says.

My best advice after trying so many things over 10 years (and now being lucky enough that my new job has awesome computers!) Is to go for the cloud route. Have a good machine to make your model, assemble and make a medium resolution proof then send it all to the cloud for rendering.

Even on my work machine (below) I have some issues with larger files so I usually create a master template in SketchUp and then assemble a final model inside the render engine (who 9 times out of 10 handle large* models better than SketchUp).

SketchUp runs well and I can take in fairly large models of between 300-700MB. Rendering is good I can do a 10k frame (average across multiple GPU render engines) in about 1h-11h depending on its complexity. 1080HD is about 10-30mins per frame.

SketchUp runs exceptionally better, for some reason I still have issues when loading large files (+1GB) but the difference is once they have loaded they perform much quicker. Rendering times are greatly improved, as above times come down to seonds-2 mins for 1080HD.

You will get to the point however, when SketchUp is not going to get (noticeably) better without a lot of hardware upgrades. You will instead see an improvement in rendering, and then again depending on the budget you have a few options:

Most bang for the buck is using a cloud service such as Amazon or a specific rendering company and just send them the files. If you are doing serious rendering then you may want to build a render farm but you have to weigh that up against how much work you have and how quick you need to do it (also factor in cooling costs and running costs).

In work I have the machine above that lets me do still renders at 10k, animation tests at 720p and generally do all my proofing. I then have a render farm for full frame animation at 4k. If I did not have that then I would just use a cloud service.

Your models also have to be well built and optimised in order to sell and you need to cover a few industry standard file formats not just .skp. You can use SketchUp and (Blender/Rhino/Modo etc) in order to make a model then clean it up in various file types.

Hi, I am looking for someone to produce Sketchup models of either new houses or extensions. What would you charge for this service? It would be ongoing but not continuous at the beginning. I would supply the drawings. How long would it take you to do this? Thanks. MikeJoyce.

Having just had a look now, yes you can use collections in the 3d warehouse in the same way in the web version.

I was able to browse to My Collections and download one of my components directly into the model.

So the answer is yes to both the free and paid web versions also have this ability.

Image to show the free version

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I was asking about a way to create links to components that are defined elsewhere, such that you only maintain one master definition of the model/component, but can have many instances of it in other models.

As the OP in this thread I am still struggling with doing this. I cannot find things, or cannot get things to work.

I can copy and paste into a new, blank model. No problem. However I cannot copy and paste from one model to another if the target model already has something in it. The options in the right mouse pop up window are all greyed out, and Cntrl V does not work.

I have never had an issue like this before, or at least not one that has persisted. I have used enscape on this computer before with no issue, but its been a few weeks. I ran the program installer to repair it to see if that helped, restarted, etc. I could see it being an issue with the speed of the computer (I don't have a video card either), except that I worked on this exact model on this computer before my vacation. I've tried opening a variety of models.

My secondary issue is when I use enscape on my office computer, it is constantly crashing. I know that video card drivers have to be up to date (office computer does have one), but even when it is I am constantly getting this error. I feel like I am wasting hours of every work day just troubleshooting enscape at this point, it is very frustrating.

I'm afraid, even though the model may have been displayed properly in Enscape before we really cannot guarantee that there won't be any issues if there is no GPU built into your machine. The system requirements will have to be met in this case. I fully understand that this isn't ideal for you especially since you've been working without a graphics card for a while, but we can unfortunately not offer any official support for Intel/AMD onboard graphics.

Furthermore, whenever you experience any crashing on a machine that does meet our requirements, kindly send in a dedicated feedback report with your log files and our support team will assist you further in no-time. Crashes can occur due to multiple causes so said log files usually tell us more to help our users. Thank you in advance! If any other questions or concerns come up regarding this or any other topic let me know.

I'm sorry to hear about that. Though, the last reply my colleague "Carl Freier" sent you was on the 20th of September, asking you to please update your Enscape as you were using an outdated version. To that, we received an automatic out-of-office response but no other reply or feedback. I am sorry about the confusion in this case.

Just to make sure, even though you state that you've re-installed Enscape multiple times, are you still already making use of Enscape 3.4.2 instead of 3.3.1? (which was the last version we saw in the previous feedback report of yours.)

I have created a house model in Sketchup and I would like to import furniture as a separate objects/layers but with original coordinates. When importing the furniture models is there some easy way to keep the original coordinates? Maybe this is actually a Sketchup problem not D5 Render problem.

Same problem Here... Still looking for a solution. I could just import sketchup models into Archicad and keep as they where imported, but every time I export to Lumion the textures are renamed and they lose ther settings.

I have a SketchUp model which I have created by importing three other model files. I want to update one of the three underlying model files. If I edit the model and physically import again, I have to spend the time to physically positioning the model again. Is there way to change the underlying model and the higher level model gets updated automatically?

Whenever you make changes to the aComponent.skp file, all you need to do is go into your workingFile.skp and find the component you loaded (I made one called weirdThing here) in the OUTLINER, not the Component window.

Not sure if this is a programming question or user question, but if it's programming question then you can use DefinitionList#load to load the new SKP file, then use ComponentInstance#definition= to replace the instances for the definition you want to replace.

While SketchUp doesn't link models and you can't automate changes from one model to another (without a plugin anyway), there is a way to replace a component with a different one. Are you comfortable using the Ruby console? If so, do the following (note that this assumes your objects are components!):

That should replace the old component with your new one. You can now delete the object you imported earlier. It would probably be a good idea to purge your model too.Note the replacement uses the old instance's coordinate axis location. As long as these are the same model, just with some edits, you shouldn't have any trouble.

Although many manufacturers provide Revit Family and Revit also provides numerous libraries, designers always seek new models and objects for their design and renderings. Sketchup 3D Warehouse provides a great library for designers and manufacturers. I added three Video tutorials to import the Sketchup model to Revit Family for your reference. You may try.

Tutorials of Visual Graphic Communication Programs for Interior Design 2 Copyright 2022 by Yongyeon Cho is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

(June 1, 2023) UPDATE: The ability to insert SketchUp graphics (.skp files) has been temporarily disabled in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook for Windows and Mac. Versions of Office that had this feature enabled will no longer have access it. 3D models in Office documents that were previously inserted from a SketchUp file will continue to work as expected unless the Link to File option was chosen at insert time. We appreciate your patience as we work to ensure the security and functionality of this feature.

SketchUp is a popular 3D graphics program that makes it easy to create shareable conceptual designs, such as fully textured architectural models and other graphics used in industrial design, product design, and civil and mechanical engineering. Now, for the first time, SketchUp graphics (.skp files) can be integrated into your creations in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook!

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