I have recently switched from 3dsmax/V-ray to SketchUp/Enscape because I can’t afford working “blind” and waiting for renderings. But now I wait for SketchUp to do everything else, so I’ve had no efficiency improvement at all. I have followed many tips to make Sketchup “fast”, but compared to 3ds M…

One anwer is: we cooperate. We do get material from other sources and other formats.

I guess I could see that with a model that contains a lot of curved geometry the number of polygons goes up exponentially. I have imported vehicles and other 3rd party models into my models from the warehouse and there have been times where those models have been extremely large. My philosophy is …

Something that should ALWAYS be addressed as models grow in size is clean-up of all the needless cruft that accumulates over time. As medeek compares with his detailed model, that storage unit model is clean and neat with only 38k faces and no extraneous components. But if you import components from…

[image] jbacus: How sure are you that you are actually comparing the same things? Model translation, for example, has a nasty habit of doubling or even quadrupling polygon count. Well, we can simply try to import a high-poly ZBrush or MarvelousDesigner model to Sketchup and 3Ds Max. probably …

Are you prepared to compare costs, as well?

Well, Autodesk offers Indie license which costs 250$/year. It’s just started and is in the testing phase in a few countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US) before going global. But hey, Blender is free :smile: and it has so many features like 3ds max (some says max cutting thei…

I don’t think the idea is comparing packages. Maybe more like “I need SketchUp to do […], please, or I must buy a more expensive software or face the Blender interface” etc.

I understand the detail required for photorealism but if you are standing 10-15 feet back from some object (thinking architectural models here) all of that detail is not discernible anyways. If your eyes can’t resolve the details then all of those details are useless and you are better off simplify…

This one’s from Bentley Context Capture, default format 3MX. Not many export formats available, and OBJ crashed on import to SKP. So we went through Realworks and created a tiled series of OBJs which worked on import to SKP.

I design multi-unit housing developments. These involve architecture, civil design and landscape design all prepared in a comprehensive model. Most of the objects I use aren’t individually massive, but the sheer quantity of them adds up. My basic workflow is this: The model is developed in SKP ini…

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MikeWayzovski February 6, 2020, 10:23pm 32

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