6 NEW WAYS to Speed Up Your SketchUp Models!

In this video, we go through 6 new ways to speed up and optimize your SketchUp models!

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NEW WAYS TO SPEED UP YOUR SKETCHUP MODELS
1. Use Smart Modeling Techniques for objects
Consider what you’re using an object for. For example – this bike rack is going to be a background object – there’s no reason to model it with 24 sided circles if a 12 sided circle will do. Look at handrails.
2. Use beveled edges instead of curved
Wherever possible, try to use simple bevels rather than curves. While curves may look a bit smoother, they also create around 5x or even more the geometry
3. Check number of entities in an object by triple clicking, or by turning on hidden geometry
Visually you can be aware of the amount of geometry using this strategy.
4. Use lower resolution textures
Obviously there’s a tradeoff here, but higher resolution textures mean higher file sizes. They can also mean clearer images for rendering, but at some point, the tradeoff just isn’t worth the trouble. For example, I have two textures that I’ve downloaded here –

5. Model with Components
Models created with components are SO much faster than models created with raw geometry. When you use models created with components, it really lightens the load on a SketchUp model, and will reduce your file size as well!
6. Use the CleanUp extension from Thom Thom
Thom Thom has created an extension that allows you to incorporate a lot of these best practices into your models automatically. It contains options for everything from purging unused geometry to merging

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[PaulNewman]

There were some great tips that I wasn't aware of and also some that I had forgotten about. Thanks so much Justin for you expertise and your help.

[DarkMoonDroid]

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[prantobiswas]

Brilliant work. Need more and more further tips for sketchup from you.
Don't stop making those video.

[DanielLamHN]

Group vs component, which one is better to reduce file size ?

[MartinWahlberg]

Thanks for doing the videos. One super simple tip is to use the monochrome mode. This speeds up the viewport with complex models. It also helps with finding backside faces which can be important if your going to render it.
Keep it up!

[kheredrain]

That's really useful, thank you for sharing

[urbanwoodworking]

Thanks for sharing. Very comprehensive as usual. There is one more thing that can be done that will significantly speed up and reduce the size of your model - a good library of props. 3D warehouse does not allow for a quick and ordered comparison of "value for memory" props. My private library does this, and I dare say most advanced users have developed similar libraries that they keep to themselves. Companies will have these stashed away as their "assets". They are able to simply range up and down similar props to select the ideal prop for a particular application. Not only that, but all their props are "smart" models 3D warehouse could do a similar thing with a little bit of planning.

[RUSTICWLF]

Thanks Justin. Very helpful . just what i was looking for. 👍🐺👍

[rafaelgalvaom]

i just love your videos so much, they help me a lot! <3

[mrskye]

Great tips. Especially about the circles and curves. I have this oc attitude of overly detailing stuff. And I'm quite struggling on how to get rid of this attitude. I also have a bad attitude of putting furniture on spaces where i won't even bother making a render with, mainly because i dont have an idea yet what angles to render while working with the model.

Anyway may i know what texture was used for the grass? The grass looks great coz it already has soil and grassy patches on it.

[brianfrasson]

Excellent videos thanks! ..any idea how to fix a delay in the selection tool

[chinselina]

thanks, this is great, it speeds up immediately.

[artworksenvisioneering]

Great tips as always. I discovered a productivity tip: create a separate entity info tray, placed close to your go to mouse corner on the screen to always be able to see line lengths primarily, but layer changes or assignments go much faster by avoiding all the silly scrolling in 2018's tray system. Saves me nearly an hour a week scrolling or lost focus as a result of scrolling, or cycling to tape measure etc for lengths. Now... if I could right click this to assign layers... any way to do this? That'd be a neat widget. seems like i once saw one but can't recall it just now.

Other super time saver is install "rotate 90 deg" extension (I think Sketchucation has it?) tapping a hot key or mouse button assigned function for rotate 90 in red, green or blue axis saves "move" as the method which is slow and imprecise for this hundreds of uses a week function. Super handy. Works in 2018 far as I can tell.

[she]

Thank you very much for these tips!
Please, I have a question: If we use smart models form 3D warehouse, like low poly models, it won't show good on render... so can we replace them later when we want to render and how can we do that?
Thank you very much for your answer!!

[zecklegend]

Thanks... good tips for my slow tablet windows

[izzatyameera]

I've learned a lot in this video, thank you Justin!

[simoneast]

Some great tips, thanks! How would you go about simplifying models that have already been created? For example, if you had already created those bike racks with too many faces, is there a method or extension to reduce the resolution and cut down the number of faces/edges?

[TedwinTansan]

I've realized one thing that if you have a 20 mb file size of skp, and then you ctrl+a and delete all the file inside the skp and save it, you'll still have a 20 mb file size, and when you try to clean it up through the model info>statistics>purge unused, and save it, you'll still have a 20mb file size. Does anyone know what happened? is this a bug?

[alfaxs]

how to solve texman usage 0mb in vray?

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