Are you getting Bug Splats when SketchUp crashes? If you are, are you sending them in with information that identifies they came from you? Did you install SketchUp or are you running it from the .dmg?
That tells us SketchUp is working on a task. What happens if it is given time to complete the task? Is it possible to post the model? What is the size of the model? Are there textures in it?
Yeah I have waited like 10 mins for it to do something but nothing occurs, the models do have textures but I mostly work without them on(not sure that makes a difference?)
Hmmm all my models seem way too big to post, none lower than 16mb
I am currently working on 3 models and they are all over 100mb, this seems big to me!
But I am just navagating around my model, am not waiting all night to move from one point to another, it moves fine most of the time but then hangs randomly!
if I was doing a massively high resolution render then I accept that I would have to wait a long time but not just moving around my model that seems to navigate quickly and freely when working on it
What does the Model Info>Statistics window show when you check the “Show nested components” box? How many edges and faces? Have you fallen into the trap of inserting entourage from the 3D Warehouse without checking how heavy it is?
It shows a different story for me, almost 3 million edges and almost 1.5 million faces:
Probably most of it is in the hyperrealistic ropes. I would use a texture, even if the model still behaves quite smoothly in my PC.
I agree with @Anssi, aTexture would likely do the job representing the rope with no problem.
I went through your model like I often do with models from others. I found a little bit of incorrect tag usage.
Purged unused stuff from the model.
And resized the excessively large textures.
I did originally have the rope as a cylinder but couldn’t get the rope texture to line up and wrap around the cylinder correctly. I didn’t have fredo tools at that time and I can do that now so that is probably a good idea to swap it back, but the do look good!
How did you resize the textures?
It seems loads better since I have switched off hidden lines tbh, will work with your nice clean file and see how I get on!
oooooohhhhhh, its like a breath of fresh air!!! I can work on my models till my heart is content and no crashing!! Thanks a lot to all the people who posted on this thread.
