Hi SU Community.
Has anyone perceived a change to the way 3D Warehouse is organized? Or has there been a recent purging that anyone is aware of? Reason I’m asking - I’m an interior designer and routinely use the cabinet “blocks” provided by Medallion Cabinetry when laying out kitchen designs. (FWIW, I also often specify Medallion cabinetry, so I love that I’m working with actual products). Anyway, the once robust quantity of Medallion blocks in the Warehouse now seems to be whittled down to virtually nothing. It’s also no longer located in the “products” tab but in the “collections” tab. Would this be a change prompted by SU? Or perhaps by the vendor? I’m kinda panic stricken here because I rely so heavily on that collection of well made (but low poly!) blocks for schematic designs and I’m not seeing good alternate option in the Warehouse.
Any and all advice is welcome.
Thanks for hearing me out!
I have looked at the Warehouse, and I see that no products appear in Products, but instead in Collections. I’m assuming it’s something to do with the vendor, but something seems very wrong.
From what I see, there’s a lot of collections when I search Medallion Cabinetry, however most of them are empty - no models or collections in them. More confusing are the collections with models or collections in them, they have no models, only collections, but it’s again these empty collection with nothing.
I’m puzzled by whatever that’s going on to these Medallion Cabinetry, and I’m afraid that none of their models are currently going to be seen again. Sorry for losing out on these
Also, I don’t think it’s anything to do with SketchUp team members purging items from the Warehouse because I still find the terrible, useless models in the Warehouse.
If you are familiar with the firm in question, I would recommend that you contact them directly. They may have withdrawn their models for some reason or there might be a technical problem of some sort.
@Anssi and @white_shadow - I’m woefully remiss in thanking you for your thoughtful replies. I so appreciate your responses to the question I posted. I had, concurrently, contacted the vendor - Medallion Cabinetry - and after some digging discovered that someone in their tech team had, in fact, loaded a robust collection of cabinet components into SU back in 2008. No explanation for the recent disappearance, though. I’m re-activating this conversation in light of tomorrow’s 3DWarehouse purge. With Medallion’s files gone, I’ve been relying on the lesser-quality cabinet blocks by Panda Kitchen & Bath. But because those also pre-date 2017, I suspect they’ll disappear tomorrow too.
Any other interior/kitchen designers who use SU’s warehouse library of cabinets to facilitate schematic kitchen layouts? Not to be dramatic, but I’m freaking out about being dead in the water after tomorrow.
I know I can download the Panda collection but they’re not great and I was foolishly hoping Medallion would magically re-appear. Also wondering if there are 3DW cabinet resources I’ve not discovered?
Thanks in advance, community!
Are these the cabinets you are looking for?
I don’t believe they will be purged from the 3D Warehouse. You just won’t be able to download the 2017 version of them. Your profile indicates you are using SketchUp 2019 so that won’t be a problem for you.
@DaveR !!! The blocks are back??? You’ll see from the earlier thread, that they had disappeared. I checked back for days but gave up in May because they continued to be missing. I’m so happy (albeit befuddled) that they’ve returned!
They were shown by White Shadow on May 3rd. Maybe you weren’t looking in the right place.
I was looking in the right place. The components had been broken in to categories that cited a number of blocks within each category but when you clicked to expand, there were no files within.
As @white_shadow cited : “…there’s a lot of collections when I search Medallion Cabinetry, however most of them are empty - no models or collections in them. More confusing are the collections with models or collections in them, they have no models, only collections, but it’s again these empty collection with nothing.”
Prior to May, there were countless Medallion cabinet components. And one day they were both reorganizes and oddly missing from the indices.
Note too that the 3D Warehouse has since 2008 been split into two main categories, Products and Models, the first being reserved for models by known manufacturers, and the second for the rest. When you do a search, you are first shown results in the Products category, and clicking on the Models tab will show the rest (usually a much larger number ).
A very poor choice as a default.
Yep. Thanks for mentioning. I developed the habit of thoroughly searching all tabs, but it certainly took some getting used to when that change was initially implemented.
I have come to appreciate the warehouse’s differentiations; it’s valuable to easily separate manufacturers’ products (eg : a Kohler faucet component made by Kohler directly), because it assures accuracy of scale. Important in my line of work!
Thanks again @Anssi !
Interesting - and closing - comment on this topic :
I took a peek at the Medallion Cabinetry components which have unexpectedly returned to the 3DWarehouse after being unavailable for a time. While they appear to have been (initially) created in 2008, each one I studied the details on, just now, has a modified date of 04/27/2021.
I confirmed with Medallion that they aren’t engaging with their SU content any longer. Is it possible someone at Trimble is managing components so they transcend software updates? Perhaps that is why this entire suite of components was pulled down back in April/May? Would love to hear from the official SU crew on this!
Thanks to anyone who took time to chime in on this issue. It’s much appreciated.