We’re excited to share that we have developed a vendor-specific 3D model library designed to be fully compatible with SketchUp. The goal is to make real-world furniture models from local vendors more accessible to designers, architects, and 3D visualizers, complete with accurate dimensions, materials, and more.
To make sure this library meets your needs, we’d love your input! We’ve prepared a short Google Form where you can share your thoughts, preferences, and suggestions:
Your feedback will directly shape the features we include, so we’d greatly appreciate if you could spare a few minutes to let us know what’s important to you.
If you have additional ideas or questions, feel free to reply here or mention them in the form. Your input is invaluable as we strive to create a tool that enhances your workflow.
Hobbyist here so I’m not going to fill in your questionnaire, but wanted to make you aware of something we see a lot here on the forum…
Lots of professionals (especially interior decorators it seems) come to the forum to get help with a file that is so bloated that it bogs down even the newest and fastest computers…
All they do is make an accurate model of the structure and then fill it with entourage from the 3D Warehouse…
Often times these entourage models are waaaay to detailed for just entourage and put a heavy toll on the model in term of edges and faces.
They also collectively forget to purge the model of discarded models. Components stay a part of the file even if they are not used in the model space!
So I would suggest that you keep your furniture models as low poly as possible and otherwise clean (no internal web of nested groups, components or tags).
Maybe you could do both. Low poly version for modeling and a high poly version just for rendering purposes…
I know rendering extensions or programs can work with proxies but don’t know how that works myself. Maybe some of the render-savvy guru’s can complement me on that matter…