Continuing the discussion from No idea how to create this mop head. any suggestions? : I was thinking it might be helpful to do just that, and get some feedback. Some of the results demonstrate DRASTIC reductions in edge and face counts, but more modest reductions in file size, depending on the siz…

Thank you for posting this. I think this info is so significant that it should be highlighted for all users to easily refer to.

Its very kind of you to say so. I don’t have the power to do that, or the knowledge of how to, but perhaps one of the moderators might do so? And as far as I know, it’s all my own invention - I’ve not seen anything like it, though @DaveR often comments (and I now quite understand why!) that he oft…

[image] john_mcclenahan: @DaveR often comments (and I now quite understand why!) that he often redraws things, rather than use the originals from the warehouse. Yes. I find it’s often easier to draw a suitable component or model myself than it is to make a poorly drawn Warehouse model usable. …

[image] DaveR: Did you track your time spent repairing that desk model? I wonder how it compares to the time you’d have spent drawing a new efficient desk. Took about 1-3 hours each, depending on the complexity. Or possibly a little more - I wan’t accurately tracking my time, since I’ve been …

Wow! That’s a lot of time to spend. Especially if you have to do that for a number of pieces in a larger model. When I do want to use the same dimensions as the original, which isn’t very often because of the way they’re usually drawn, I do find it’s easier to do it in the same file rather than swi…

I know - but as I said, my time isn’t chargeable (now anyway!). But Scott Baker’s( @NewThinking2 ) model, which I want to help him finish, had become TOTALLY unmanageable less than half finished, and needed drastic pruning. Was taking tens of seconds just to change viewpoint, and over 250MB. At lea…

Thanks for doing all this, John. You have made invaluable contributions to the project, possibly irreplaceable ones. Certainly you saved me an enormous amount of time and improved the quality in a major way. It’s good that we could keep the artistic essence of the furniture without having to carr…

That prompts a further thought. Once you have mirrored or copied a set of apartments, or any other replicated entourage, put the copies on a separate layer and turn them off (or don’t even copy them in the first place) until you need the view of the whole. Or even just leave a few different ‘sho…

[image] NewThinking2: The 3D Warehouse models are designed to be as realistic and intricate models as possible since they are designed to sell… I’m not convinced of that, though it may be true for some. If it were a professional outfit doing the modelling, I’d hope they would use better tech…

[image] Introducing Certified 3D Warehouse Content Developers! 3D Warehouse We’ve launched a new program to improve the quality of 3D Warehouse product models, the Certified Content Developer program. This program is how skilled SketchUp modelers who work with product manu…

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