Im unable to open my skp file ever since sketchup has crashed for me, I tried changing the skb file to skp which didn’t work as well.

This is not an uncommon problem. I wonder whether the official tutorials and guides make clear the dangers of bloating? I can see that newbies might think that Sketchup is a bit like a Lego set. It could appear that all you do is start with a base model and then screw in a whole load of component…

i have seen this tutorial which i have followed besides ‘smart models’ since i wanted my objects to look realistic on shelf .etc, when being rendered into vray. By following those it has made it smoother, along with learning about purging which has removed about 100mb of bloat from when i first star…

Well, okay, but for me a 100Mb file would be truly enormous. And that is just what you have purged from yours! @TIG is a hugely experienced user and is a respected writer of extensions so he is worth listening to. I can understand wanting to achieve realism but you also have to work within the li…

I do agree, and I found his explanation very helpful along with DaveR in my previous post when it didn’t work. Just that I have seen ppl work with files that are 1gb and assume that my pc which is mid-spec i think, would be able to handle it (ryzen 5 2600 along with 16gb of ram and a zotac gtx 1070)…

I am going to get out of my depth technically trying to advise further, but… I believe it is not just the size of the file but things like the number of edges. Image files may also have a disproportionate effect. It’s worth remembering that SU does not make use of multiple threaded processors lik…

i’ll give it a read, thank you :slight_smile: so far the only way i can access my file again to fix on the problems is by using transmutr but that made the file 1+gb and got to group all the tags again as it brought it to an older version of sketchup

Hopefully, someone will come along with the will and inclination to try opening your file. They might then be able to reduce the file size for you and return it in a form you can open.

hopefully, but for now i guess i’ll just see what i can work on with the current file i was able to get with transmutr.

I went through this with you before. As TIG indicates, your file is bloated beyond reason. Incorrect tag usage. [Screenshot - 8_12_2021 , 7_30_56 AM] Looking at the list of tags which appears to be in at least three different languages it looks like you didn’t take my previous advice to import c…

Ever since a crash I can't open my file, failed to open document with the skp or skb

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simoncbevans August 12, 2021, 11:11am 13

This thread might be useful if you haven’t seen it: Have I reached the limits of Sketchup? - #5 by NewThinking2

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Ever since a crash I can't open my file, failed to open document with the skp or skb

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