can anybody help? I am using my spacepilot to navigate in google sketchup, when I have built the model, and start adding 3d plant images (I'm a garden designer) the spacepilot starts to run slow and jerky when working in all vectors. I have a dell optiplex gx 620. Intel pentium 4 cpu 3.2 ghtz, and 2 gig of ram. Also when sketchup is running performance shows a pf usage of 800mb, and a cpu usage of 60%, it would seem that I have enough ram etc to run the programme easily. I also find that the model has bits missing eg I can see the interior of buildings at certain angles. Has anyone come across this problem?
many thanks.
Andy
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andy forsey
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Dear andy forsey,
What version of SketchUp are you using?
What version of 3DxSoftware?
Your plants are an assemblage of how many individual parts?
Some plants are constructed of thousands of parts (or more).
If you can substitute an image of a plant, it can save quite a bit on resources.
This is similiar to recommendations made in SketchUp Tutorials that recommend using a photographic skin for buildings rather than constructing numerous individual parts.
SketchUp will slow down when the number of elements become enlarged.
A few multiple copies of multiple copies can rapidly increase the number of elements to the point that SketchUp will not seem as responsive as you might like.
Many of the plant models available for download are constructed in this fashion with muliple copies of leaves in a branch and multiple copies of a branch in a limb, and multiple copies of a limb in a plant and then multiple plants. This exponential growth can generate large numbers of elements.
Sincerely,
Bryan G.
What version of SketchUp are you using?
What version of 3DxSoftware?
Your plants are an assemblage of how many individual parts?
Some plants are constructed of thousands of parts (or more).
If you can substitute an image of a plant, it can save quite a bit on resources.
This is similiar to recommendations made in SketchUp Tutorials that recommend using a photographic skin for buildings rather than constructing numerous individual parts.
SketchUp will slow down when the number of elements become enlarged.
A few multiple copies of multiple copies can rapidly increase the number of elements to the point that SketchUp will not seem as responsive as you might like.
Many of the plant models available for download are constructed in this fashion with muliple copies of leaves in a branch and multiple copies of a branch in a limb, and multiple copies of a limb in a plant and then multiple plants. This exponential growth can generate large numbers of elements.
Sincerely,
Bryan G.