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    Sketchup 7 so slow!

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by narsnail, Apr 28, 2009.

  1. narsnail

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    Ok so laptop in sig is having alot of trouble with sketchup, its a 10mb file and its basically at a crawl. Do workstation cards help with this or is it just how this program is?
     
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    Can you upload the file somewhere?
     
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    hmmm i could try. i just dont have alot of time as this needs to be in about an hour and a half. I think it might be due to the 3mb each townhouse complexes
     
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    WOW... That is quite intense for the hd2400 xt in the computer I'm using right now at work... I think workstation class drivers optimizations will help. But I'm not too sure about it. I'll try exporting the model to blender and see if there are any differences.
     
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    i just put all the townhouse blocks on separate layers and turned them off, tedious, but it worked. ive never had it slow to a crawl that bad before. I have had models 20 times that size and never been that slow. probably the very high res textures.
     
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    I don't think the size has anything to do with it as it is still the same number of polygons. Disabling the textures didn't change anything. I exported the scene to blender and it doesn't have any problem displaying it... I guess maybe the free version of sketchup has limitations concerning how it handles a certain number of polys.

    May I ask what it is for? Are you taking 3d modeling classes? Or are you working on an urbanization project?
     
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    its an urbanization project, and i had the pro version of sketchup not the free one I have no clue what the problem would have been.
     
    narsnail, Apr 30, 2009
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