Hi there, Its my first entry as im fresh here. Im using Sketchup Pro 2018 with a Nivada M2000 Card at the moment I work in Masterplanning division and i often handle HUGE 3D models, things get SUPER heavy when all the consultants start sending us their detailed design models for different buildin…

From the SketchUp Help Center … Improving Performance Improving Graphics Performance And your graphics OEM is Nvidia (not Nivada) Quadro Desktop/Quadro Notebook Driver Release 390 | R390 U5 (391.58) | Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit, Windows 8 64-bit | NVIDIA (Win7/8/8.1)) Quadro De…

[image] omran.almohamad: I work in Masterplanning division and i often handle HUGE 3D models, things get SUPER heavy when all the consultants start sending us their detailed design models for different buildings An obvious first step, beyond frequent use of View → Model Info → Statistics → Pu…

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Thanks for the correction, as an initial action i upgraded to the M4000

Thanks for the tips, its actually how i work … i separate the model into smaller pieces, purged and cleaned … no extra layers and then in the end i try to combine them in one overall model

Another question is … What is the limitation of the software ? How big can we go with sketchup ? in terms of model size

[image] omran.almohamad: Another question is … What is the limitation of the software ? This is hard to answer. If I told you there are certain limitations, you would not (dare) to cross them, letting you caged in those boundaries. If I told you there are non, you might stumble upon the very…

Pretty far, but the nature of models created in SketchUp are usually quite lean. Keeping clean geometry and managing layers can take you further. I usually have to leave SketchUp when a file gets to 1GB. If I go over 1GB then I generally start compiling my model in other software, depends on what t…

[image] liamk887: If I go over 1GB then I generally start compiling my model in other software, depends on what the expected output is (infographic, illustration, render, animation etc). I tend to agree with the approximately 1 GB limitation in file size for a working SketchUp model. I have …

[image] jvleearchitects: Sometimes the final model may reach a size of 5 GB or more How long would it take to open such a file?

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