Hi,
I’m in the process of importing .dwg files from our product supplier. When importing a .dwg file and saving it on SketchUp as a .dae, it saves it as a much larger file size.
I also use the cleanup extension from the .dwg before saving it as a .dae. This doesn’t seem to solve it.
As you can see the file size is much worse. Am I doing this correctly or is there a better way of doing this?
If anyone could help me with this it would be much appreciated!
Kind Regards
Richard
FYI, DWG is a binary format, whilst DAE (Collada) is a plain text XML format, so it will likely always be larger as XML has opening and closing element tags for each geometric object. In binary file formats the data is precisely positioned within the file instead of marked with tags.
Great to hear from you as always Dave. Thank you for the well-put explanation. That explains it perfectly thanks.
Thank you Dan,
Would a different format help with this? It doesn’t necessarily need to be a .dae.
Thanks
What is the end use that requires you to save as dae rather than skp? Seems that is the central question in whether some other format will work better.
Well, first of all removing coplaner faces will reduce the file size, so Dave’s ideas do have merit.
What are you doing with these files?
SKP is a binary format by the way.
If you have SU2024 you can also export to glB (OpenGL binary transfer format.)
DXF is also plain text but only has opening tags at the beginning of each line.
Ok, thanks chaps well essentially these models need to be quick-loading as they are used for interior design in skp and rendered using V-ray. It doesn’t require any complexity as we provide simple diagrams through layout.
Simple answer, save as SKP?
(Dave) In case you were wondering I changed company so having to do the same project as last time!
Yea, a “no-brainer”.
