I need some help here. I have been stuck for 4 days. Any help will be greatly appreciated!
The Layout becomes Not Responding when I tried to export view in pdf vector file. I need this to further process in Adobe Illustrator. My file is too massive (~450mb) with detailed components but I would need them to be kept. I can export raster format but just couldnt do pdf vector.
Because of that, I tried to work on the skp model. I tried to purge unused in SketchUp model, however it will go unresponsive as I tried to purge. I also to split the model into smaller files, but when I tried to export into dwg.
I can’t download the .skp file. You need to give permission. I’ll look at your LO file in the meantime.
I’m wating on the first viewport to render as Vector. There’s an awful lot of geometry to render in this model so it isn’t really surprising. Looking at the embedded SketchUp model I see this.
Is ALL of that within the scope of your project? If not, you could help yourself by getting rid of what isn’t useful. Then LayOut won’t have so many edges to consider for Vector rendering.
There’s also a lot of incorrect tag usage. Fixing it results in this:
Of the remaining materials you have a large number that are excessively large for what they add to the model. A lot of those textures could be replaced with simple colors without making noticeable changes to the model.
FWIW, I’ve now been waiting for over an hour for your LO file to render due to the obese SketchUp model file. I’m not sure if it’s worth continuing. Maybe I’ll try something different but I think you should clean up your SketchUp model and start over on the LayOut file.
I see, btw I tried cleaning up the model by splitting it into several parts and saving them into a new file. Purging unused elements worked fine, and the file size is now around 200MB. However, when I tried exporting 2D drawings, SketchUp became unresponsive again😅
This model was originally imported from ArchiCAD in IFC format, and after editing, I realized that all the structures have been converted into components too
Would exploding all the structure elements and objects help reduce the file size further?
Exploding the components and purging unused components from the model might reduce file size in that it would remove any IFC attributes but it wouldn’t reduce the entity counts so I expect you would still have issues. You could use something like Eneroth De-Dc-ify on the IFC components to remove their attributes.
A lot of the issue is the numbers of edges in some of the components. The wigs here, for example.
I just copied a small portion of model from the original .skp file to another new file and exported it.
By the way, I am not sure if this is one of the reasons that I can’t export my model through LayOut, but I copied and split my model to different parts from .skb file and pasted to a new .skp file, using skimp to clean up the edges &faces, changing style to ‘Hidden Line’, and it works surprisingly
Currently, I exported my model to vector pdf from LayOut successfully. However, there is only one part of the model that I couldn’t export, the file size is just only 15mb. I deleted the components from that part of model to test out whether it’s caused by the furniture/component, also purged the unused elements already, but it’s still became unresponsive when I exporting it.
any possible reasons that might happened to my case? anyways to check it?
Maybe @colin can look at your model or get a developer to look at it.
The other day I let LayOut run on your file for about 5 hours while I did other things but it never finished. I needed LayOut for other things so I had to kill it.
The fact is, your model is incredibly bloated with geometry. There may be other issues with it but I can’t do anything with it.
I have uploaded the file after split the models, these files should be easier to navigate as I have cleaned them up for the 1st round. Appreciate if you or colin could help to look into it, meanwhile I will try to find the root cause as well
file successfully exported into LO vector pdf (88.2mb):
I finished reading through the whole topic, and will look at the later files.
Something I will try is exporting to PDF from SketchUp. There are some export issues that show in LayOut, that really are SketchUp issues. If the exports in SketchUp work ok, that makes it be a LayOut issue. If not, the fix would be in the SketchUp code that LayOut also uses.
