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Mike ….. it’s the same issue as creating a scene in Sketchup when items are ConDoc tagged and you try to use that scene on a machine without ConDocs. Native Sketchup doesn’t know how to deal with items that have multiple tags assigned
Kathrin …… that’s an approach I hadn’t thought of and that rabbit hole doesn’t seem anywhere near as deep. I think you could create tags Option1, Option2 and Option3 under ConDocs. Create a copy of the scene set you want to assign in the Configurator, and set the tags for you option 1, 2, 3 for the option you are creating. You would end with 3 or more copies of each of those plan sets with the only difference being the option tag set. Might worth trying to do one and see where it leads. It’s works and the development time is relatively short then creating additional options won’t be such a huge talk. Hopefully Mike B chimes in with some good ideas or even better would be an out of box solution in the version 5.2 or 6.
If your elements exist as multiple conditions then they will be duplicated. If the same wall exists as different CONDITIONS in the different options than it will be duplicated. There’s no way that I know where you can ConDoc tag more than one LEVEL, ELEMENT, LOCATION, CONDITION to any object. Hence the need for duplication.
ConDoc tags stand alone from SketchUp tags. If using Outliner is working for you then that’s fine. It sounds like your trying to accomplish some things that ConDocs is not suited to doing out of the box. If your goal is to automate the entire process you will definitely need to create some ConDoc tags and modify the appropriate ConDoc scenes in settings to automate. Once you know what option you are developing for CD’s I would save the current model to a new model, strip out the options you aren’t going to use and then tag everything as Level_XX, Element_XX. LOCATION_Exterior, Interior or Site and CONDITION_Demolished, Existing or New. Generate your plans with the ConDoc plan generator and then export to Layot and move on with your CD’s.
I’ve considered modifying ConDoc’s for options as your describing but decided it was easier to have an individual model for each option. Especially sense you’re trying to export them to use in Layout. The rabbit hole can get deep if you allow it and that was the main reason I do this in separate/duplicate models now. When I looked in that rabbit hole I didn’t see the bottom and new it would be a very significant investment that I couldn’t justify knowing I would still have to duplicate things
Hopefully Mike B chimes in. He may have a solution that I’ve yet considered
Something else to consider is you’ll most likely end with some duplicate items. In your post you gave the example of walls in one design option remaining and in another being demolished. In this case in one option the wall would most likely be tagged Level_01 / ELEMENT_Walls / LOCATION_Interior / Condition_Existing and in the second option Level_01 / ELEMENT_Walls / LOCATION_Interior / Condition_Demolish. This wall would have to be duplicated in your model
First question, are you trying to create ConDoc plans from the different options or use the model to display these different options? Based on my knowledge and experience with ConDocs it’s not really possible with the stock plan generator/scene creating tools. The ConDoc plan generator is intended for automated scene export to Layout. I’ve done this in the past but only used my model for display, I basically created option one by tagging everything with my ConDoc tags as I normally would then I grouped all the components in Option One into a group. I then created a Sketchup tag for Option1 and tagged the group I just created for option 1 with that tag. Do that for each of the different options 1, 2, 3 etc. Now use the Sketchup tag to turn off and leave on the option you want to see. Hope that helps
I’ve had similar issues in the past and had to open the scrap book in layout and physically delete the view the drawing(s) that are in the ConDocs Drawings scrap book. Remember scrap books are nothing more than layout files and they take a beating sometimes
The hatch will always render as raster and create an opaque background. All the hatches in ConDocs are raster images, even if you force it to Hybrid it will still render as a raster and give you the opaque background. As for the solid black hatch, this typically happens because you have an object like a ground plane that is very large that is being hatched. Go to the SketchUp Hatch A or B tab in that is giving you the issue. Set that view current, you should be able to see what object is out of place and shouldn’t be on in the scene. This is usually caused by a ground plane that is untagged or on the wrong tag
Greg …… Happy New Years. Good to hear things are coming along in ConDocs. I’ve done a fair bit of customizing my drawing set and a little on styles so if you want to bounce your ideas or challenges off me I’d be happy tp help. What I’ve found is for the most part the ConDoc styles will get the job done. For me it’s been more of a change to a different style used by the scene exporter thru the drawing set than actual style modifications but I do have a few modified styles I use that I store in a separate folder from the condocs or sketchup systems folders. In fact any of my customized drawing sets, components, styles, templates or anything else I keep under a separate folder outside of any systems folders and path what I have too thru file/folder locations in Sketchup. If you need to bounce any ideas off someone or want to ask of something your stuck on hit me up and I’d be happy to help, [email protected]
Mike ….. I’m using the SITE tag now and I’m loving it. It’s the tag I’ve need for a while. It’s been an issue for me when using the BARRIERS tag in a scene set using INTERIOR & EXTERIOR location tags. I can’t turn BARRIERS off without turning them off in the interior which which would turnoff guards and handrails. Now I can put fences on BARRIERS where I always have but use the SITE location tag to not turn of things like guards and handrails and it works the way I want it to. Creating Location_SITE was something I often thought about doing myself but never did. Great work
Does your geometry look good at the scene level?
I’ve had something similar happen when using geolocate and not moving the geolocated information to a condoc tag.
If you still have problems and you want to share your SKP file and your drawing sets *.condoc file I’d be happy to take a look at it and figure out what’s going wrong
Gregory ……. Condocs will ignore manually added (sketchup) tags. Make sure the levels you need are defined in the Project Setup for ConDocs. Use the basement option in Project setup for your crawl space/basement and define that level at the appropriate level. When you generate your plans you’ll Condocs will create a set of scenes for the 00 level (basement/crawls space). Hope that helps
Mike …. I finally got a chance to watch this video. Is the Site location tag a Meedek only tag? I’ve run into a lot of instances where I wanted a Site location tag.
Did you generate scenes before or after you tagged the model. Tagging components individually is the way to go. Noo need tp play the shell game with ConDoc 5 that only makes things more difficult
Steve …… I set the DESIGN tab scene settings to remember tag and camera setting and set the tags to be my most commonly visible tags
I’m a bit confused when you say Existing Level_01 and Level_02. All your geometry for the 1st floor, existing or new should be on Level_01 and tagged with condition New or Existing. If all your second floor geometry is new then it all should be tagged Level_02 with condition New. When you say you can’t see certain things is that issue in Sketchup or Layout? If you want to send me your SKP file as well as your Layout file i’ll take a look and see what I can figure out for you. Email is [email protected]
If you’re using the Sketchup Tags menu that’s your problem? If your using the ConDocs Tags menu accessed from the ConDoc System menu you should have LEVEL 01 and LEVEL 02 visible. Select LEVEL 02 for the objects you want on LEVL02 and deselect LEVEL 01. You”ll also need to create view sets for LEVEL 02. If you issue is in layout and you have all the views made in your Sketchup model use the Scene Update & Save button on the ConDoc tool bar to update your scenes and then update you model in layout. Hope that helps
Is the issue in items that are in section or in plan (not in section). If in section then you most likely solved your problem.
Can’t wait for this one. Tried Medeek a few years ago and gave up on it. I was still pretty new to Sketchup at the time. Seeing your short has me super excited and interested in the possibilities
Mike …… thanks much for the suggestion and the initial leg work. I’m going to try this in the next week on my next CD project. I’ll be sure to post letting everyone know how it goes
Steve …… please keep me posted. I’d be very interested in seeing how this works for you. Dynamic components for electrical symbols? Hmm sounds interesting would like to hear more about this
One more thing, are you working on the cloud or your local drive? Working from the cloud will definitely bog things down
My latest project was 64mb. Not a huge file at all. It really seems like the more I draw in scale in layout the slower my layout files get. My slowest page of my layout is always my electrical plan where all my symbols are dropped into a scaled group from a scrapbook. I’ve asked the question on the forum what others are doing for their electrical plan workflow. Hoping someone has a better idea
When you send your views to Layout are you making sure that the ConDoc Drawings scrap book is not the current scrapbook
I’m a PC/windows user. My machine is a bit older, i7 -8086 cpu @ 4.0ghz
GForce RTX2070
32 GB ram
2x500GB Samsung SS drives stripedBy no means is this a current machine but it’s no slouch either
I’m experiencing the same thing. I usually do an Off All and then an On All, but it is a bit annoying
Always, my cloud is a backup/sync only and all my files reside on my desktop HD. Only way to work in a production capacity
That’s the beauty of ConDocs, you don’t need to worry about scene/viewport stacking it does the scene (viewport) creation and stacking for you. Sets the scene type vector/raster or hybrid, the stack order, scene style and line weight so they display correctly on the sheet when you export them from Sketchup and drop them into Layout via the scrapbook. Lots to consider when you manually stack views and it’s pretty time consuming, Haven’t had a need to do sense adding ConDoc in my workflow
Nothing? This is still an issue.
Currently I have an electrical plan that has a group on the fowling tags Level01/Floors/Exterior/New. It’s an exterior feature that I don’t want on in my electrical plan. I can’t turn off any of the tags without turning off something that I want to see on the inside of the plan. If I hide it and save/update the scene it reappears. If I uncheck Top-Level Hidden and Hidden Objects in the seen properties for the scene, hide the object I want hidden and re check the scene properties I unchecked the object reappears. Never had this problem before ConDoc5. Can someone at ConDoc please address this?
Kyle …. that’s pretty much what I’m doing. I have a copy of a modified version of my drawing set in the default folder in the rabbit hole. Issue came about because I just got a new machine and I didn’t have the modified drawing set on the new machine which led me to want them in a shared location for my machines and it default to that location. That way I’m up to date on all my machines when I make change to my drawing sets from any one of my machines.
Mike ……. thanks for the quick response!!!! You touched on another issue I just discovered after discovering that my Levels were gone the “purge all” screwed all my scene tag setting up. So now I know
Try Tinyspell. It’s a windows spell checking app. Not perfect but it’s helped my fat finger typos quite a bit
Sense the poche is a style applied to a scene in Sketchup just make sure the two styles have the different color. This is fully configurable in the ConDocs Configurator
Sense the poche is a style applied to a scene in Sketchup just make sure the two styles have the different color. This is fully configurable in the ConDocs Configurator
Hatches in sketchup/layout are raster based only and will always have a background when displayed in layout. You can test this by changing the Only vector based images will have the opaque/clear background and are much slower to load in layout. You can test this by changing your hatch scene from raster to vector or hybrid in the Sketchup Model window
Hatches in sketchup/layout are raster based only and will always have a background when displayed in layout. You can test this by changing the Only vector based images will have the opaque/clear background and are much slower to load in layout. You can test this by changing your hatch scene from raster to vector or hybrid in the Sketchup Model window
The exported drawing is nothing more than the sum of the scenes created in the plan generator stacked into one drawing that you can then drag into layout. We used to do this manually. Layout automates it for us. If all your scenes are created and the drawing has been exported and inserted into layout the only thing you need to do to update is to update the appropriate scenes in Sketchup, save and then update the referenced model in Layout. Hope that helps.
The exported drawing is nothing more than the sum of the scenes created in the plan generator stacked into one drawing that you can then drag into layout. We used to do this manually. Layout automates it for us. If all your scenes are created and the drawing has been exported and inserted into layout the only thing you need to do to update is to update the appropriate scenes in Sketchup, save and then update the referenced model in Layout. Hope that helps.
Sketchup doesn’t list nested components in the Components list. Get in the habit of saving them outside of your model for reuse.
Sketchup doesn’t list nested components in the Components list. Get in the habit of saving them outside of your model for reuse.
Try the following
- Go to Preferences (bottom of Edit menu)
- Select Folders
- Locate “Scrapbooks”
- Verify paths by checking them to make sure that the condocs scrap books are located in one of these folders. Mine were located at the folowing C:UsershomeAppDataRoamingSketchUpSketchUp 2019LayOutScrapbooks
- If they are not then you’ll need to locate them on your hard drive. Do a search for “ConDoc Drawings.layout”
- If it’s found you’ll need to add the path to that folder under Scrapbooks in Preferences
- If when you check the Scrapbook paths and the ConDoc*.layout files are in the path then I’m not sure what the problem is.
Hope this helps
Try the following
- Go to Preferences (bottom of Edit menu)
- Select Folders
- Locate “Scrapbooks”
- Verify paths by checking them to make sure that the condocs scrap books are located in one of these folders. Mine were located at the folowing C:\Users\home\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2019\LayOut\Scrapbooks
- If they are not then you’ll need to locate them on your hard drive. Do a search for “ConDoc Drawings.layout”
- If it’s found you’ll need to add the path to that folder under Scrapbooks in Preferences
- If when you check the Scrapbook paths and the ConDoc*.layout files are in the path then I’m not sure what the problem is.
Hope this helps
Luke ….. I’m having some issues generating my scenes for this model. My model is on a point cloud terrain map. The Z axis is relative to real world Z with an accuracy of 12″. When I use camera position and place the figure on my floor I get an elevation height of 195′-6″. I know that the camera comes in with a positive height value of 5′-6″ so I’m setting my floor height at 190′ and my basement at 180′-4″ (8′ plate height +20″ floor system). Some of my cuts look correct and some don’t. My Construction Plan Heavy 01 looks like it’s trying to use the basement section plane and it’s not a cut. Same with Heavy for the basement Construction plan. It’s not cutting the plane. It seems as though the cuts are getting mixed up between 1st floor and basement. Do you have any suggestions? Here’s a link to the model files if you want to take a look at it. As always your help is greatly appreciated.
https://locationarts.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/EUs02T6zrfRLnHP25gS4SsMBnvE9k5UrbUurXT5TcXrERA?e=1QMcTd
Luke ….. I’m having some issues generating my scenes for this model. My model is on a point cloud terrain map. The Z axis is relative to real world Z with an accuracy of 12″. When I use camera position and place the figure on my floor I get an elevation height of 195′-6″. I know that the camera comes in with a positive height value of 5′-6″ so I’m setting my floor height at 190′ and my basement at 180′-4″ (8′ plate height +20″ floor system). Some of my cuts look correct and some don’t. My Construction Plan Heavy 01 looks like it’s trying to use the basement section plane and it’s not a cut. Same with Heavy for the basement Construction plan. It’s not cutting the plane. It seems as though the cuts are getting mixed up between 1st floor and basement. Do you have any suggestions? Here’s a link to the model files if you want to take a look at it. As always your help is greatly appreciated.
https://locationarts.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/EUs02T6zrfRLnHP25gS4SsMBnvE9k5UrbUurXT5TcXrERA?e=1QMcTd
Luke …… on the subject of retaining walls. If my retaining walls extend above the 1st floor level I would need to split them and show a portion in the Level OO MOG (lower level/basement plan and the remaining portion above the 1st floor plane in the 1st floor level MOG? Your insight is always welcomed
Luke …… on the subject of retaining walls. If my retaining walls extend above the 1st floor level I would need to split them and show a portion in the Level OO MOG (lower level/basement plan and the remaining portion above the 1st floor plane in the 1st floor level MOG? Your insight is always welcomed
Luke …… I’m generating scenes and sheeting today for a prelim set. I’m having an issue with my plans not generating properly. My model is on a down slope lot with the 1st floor at one height and my basement/ground floor 9′ below my first floor. My model is on a point cloud terrain model with a ground mesh that I’ve generated. The point cloud/ground mesh is located in the Z access to it’s real world heights. So when I use the position camera tool I get a height of 195′-6″ when I place it on the floor of my residence. Does that mean when I use the plan generator that level one should be 195′-6″? As of now I have to zoom extents to get anything into my view.
Luke …… I’m generating scenes and sheeting today for a prelim set. I’m having an issue with my plans not generating properly. My model is on a down slope lot with the 1st floor at one height and my basement/ground floor 9′ below my first floor. My model is on a point cloud terrain model with a ground mesh that I’ve generated. The point cloud/ground mesh is located in the Z access to it’s real world heights. So when I use the position camera tool I get a height of 195′-6″ when I place it on the floor of my residence. Does that mean when I use the plan generator that level one should be 195′-6″? As of now I have to zoom extents to get anything into my view.
Luke …. as always thank for the insight. I have gone thru and redrawn a lot of the multi segmented line work, purged and things have gotten better. I too have started to use the drawing scale feature in Layout to draw details. This project was someones ACAD 2d handoff that I didn’t want to model so I tried DRAFT mode for the first time and it’s worked pretty well.
Luke …. as always thank for the insight. I have gone thru and redrawn a lot of the multi segmented line work, purged and things have gotten better. I too have started to use the drawing scale feature in Layout to draw details. This project was someones ACAD 2d handoff that I didn’t want to model so I tried DRAFT mode for the first time and it’s worked pretty well.
Second issue in draft mode. I seem to be getting a lot of lag when I move things. My drawing is 100% 2D and everything in the file is in draft mode. It seems like it’s an issue when it has to generate the face that we never see in draft mode. Is there anything I can do to avoid this issue?
Second issue in draft mode. I seem to be getting a lot of lag when I move things. My drawing is 100% 2D and everything in the file is in draft mode. It seems like it’s an issue when it has to generate the face that we never see in draft mode. Is there anything I can do to avoid this issue?
Luke …… I went to medium output on the pdf and that seemed to do the trick. Thanks for the suggestion
Luke …… I went to medium output on the pdf and that seemed to do the trick. Thanks for the suggestion
Luke
PDF’s view fine, no issues what so ever. Everything is on the sheet and views as it should
I use Adobe Acrobat Reader DC
I’m on the current version
I get no error codes, just a message if I wait long enough but that usually takes 10+ min, who waits that long?
This is only an issue with ConDocs stacked views and I’m neatly 100% sure it’s directly related to the raster views. Elevations and sections have no issues and are not stacked views.Luke
PDF’s view fine, no issues what so ever. Everything is on the sheet and views as it should
I use Adobe Acrobat Reader DC
I’m on the current version
I get no error codes, just a message if I wait long enough but that usually takes 10+ min, who waits that long?
This is only an issue with ConDocs stacked views and I’m neatly 100% sure it’s directly related to the raster views. Elevations and sections have no issues and are not stacked views.Hey guys, similar issue. I’ve got section planes that are stacked on each other and I’d like to get rid of what I don’t need and I know I don’t need them all or do I? How can I ID what section is being used by which scene? Knowing that will allow me to delete what appear to be duplicate sections
Hey guys, similar issue. I’ve got section planes that are stacked on each other and I’d like to get rid of what I don’t need and I know I don’t need them all or do I? How can I ID what section is being used by which scene? Knowing that will allow me to delete what appear to be duplicate sections
Mike ….. the viewport I was having issues with is no longer in the layout set. should have made a copy. The sheet I had the problem on was A.02. If I copied a viewport and reassigned my scenes to it or if I created as a new viewport thru the insert I had the same issue regardless of the style assigned to it in the model if I used the viewport as Vector or Hybrid. Raster displayed like it should. Sheet A.03 in the layout set is the same section scenes I was trying to create on A.02 at a smaller scale but I didn;t experience any of the issues I did on A.02. Wierd, but I’d like to try and figure what happened so I can tackle it next time it happens.
Mike ….. the viewport I was having issues with is no longer in the layout set. should have made a copy. The sheet I had the problem on was A.02. If I copied a viewport and reassigned my scenes to it or if I created as a new viewport thru the insert I had the same issue regardless of the style assigned to it in the model if I used the viewport as Vector or Hybrid. Raster displayed like it should. Sheet A.03 in the layout set is the same section scenes I was trying to create on A.02 at a smaller scale but I didn;t experience any of the issues I did on A.02. Wierd, but I’d like to try and figure what happened so I can tackle it next time it happens.
Here’s a link the SKP and the Layout files. Please note that these are not ConDoc models as they were started long before I started using ConDocs. But even my ConDocs section and line styles were giving me the same issue. The section on the Layout sheet by itself was fine. When I tried to added that section as a smaller scaled section to my plan sheet so I could condense to a single sheet is when I started having issues
https://locationarts.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/EgGKFrYUt69Jivr-jqc8Dn0B_R9o98eOIX7a-xhVh6bQ6Q?e=TdMpJg
Here’s a link the SKP and the Layout files. Please note that these are not ConDoc models as they were started long before I started using ConDocs. But even my ConDocs section and line styles were giving me the same issue. The section on the Layout sheet by itself was fine. When I tried to added that section as a smaller scaled section to my plan sheet so I could condense to a single sheet is when I started having issues
https://locationarts.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/EgGKFrYUt69Jivr-jqc8Dn0B_R9o98eOIX7a-xhVh6bQ6Q?e=TdMpJg
Make sure they are drawn on layer ZERO in the proper location. Check the style by clicking on the edit tab. Select EDGE SETTINGS from the five icons below the tab. the last check box in that list will be dashed lines. Make sure it’s checked. ConDocs controls dashed lines via layer ZERO and a dashed line style.
Make sure they are drawn on layer ZERO in the proper location. Check the style by clicking on the edit tab. Select EDGE SETTINGS from the five icons below the tab. the last check box in that list will be dashed lines. Make sure it’s checked. ConDocs controls dashed lines via layer ZERO and a dashed line style.
Same problem here. I just emailed Michael Brightman and haven’t heard back. Makes it nearly impossible to work
Same problem here. I just emailed Michael Brightman and haven’t heard back. Makes it nearly impossible to work
Luke …. thanks but I could have sworn that layer ZERO was set to default when I created my first foundation plan, and not a dashed line. When I change layer ZERO to a dashed linetype anything else on layer ZERO becomes dashed as well. I keep a copy of my 2D plan off to the sidce as well as stacked in the model. The one in the model is on the background layer the one off to the side is on layer zero. I had to do this because when I went from 2d to 3d we had a lot of changes and having the background model underneath was in the way at times but I still needed to reference it. Guess I’m going to need another layer for that use
Luke …. thanks but I could have sworn that layer ZERO was set to default when I created my first foundation plan, and not a dashed line. When I change layer ZERO to a dashed linetype anything else on layer ZERO becomes dashed as well. I keep a copy of my 2D plan off to the sidce as well as stacked in the model. The one in the model is on the background layer the one off to the side is on layer zero. I had to do this because when I went from 2d to 3d we had a lot of changes and having the background model underneath was in the way at times but I still needed to reference it. Guess I’m going to need another layer for that use
Ellen ….. post a link to the model. My first guess would be the cut edges and faces that are not appearing for you are on a layer or in a group that is not displayed in the section export.
Ellen ….. post a link to the model. My first guess would be the cut edges and faces that are not appearing for you are on a layer or in a group that is not displayed in the section export.
If I change the scene order in the Sketchup Scene window and export the drawing to layout will that change the stack order or do I have to do it in the configurator? Once I figure out my order I’ll reorder the list in the configurator.
If I change the scene order in the Sketchup Scene window and export the drawing to layout will that change the stack order or do I have to do it in the configurator? Once I figure out my order I’ll reorder the list in the configurator.
Luke …… in the future is there a possibility of giving each of the scenes that are stacked and grouped to create the drawing on the sheet individual layers? If they could automatically be assigned layers such as Model 1 = 1st scene in the stack then we could turn scene layers off that are in front of your snap points.
The one in particular was my foundation plan where I was trying to snap to some column centers but the hatch scene is in front of it so I have to move it out of the way to hit my snap points. Your workaround suggestion wouldn’t have worked because all end and mid points of the column I was dimension too were behind another scene. Move the scene in the way and I could snap to my points. If there was a hide tool in Layout that could work as well, but thats not on you guys
Luke …… in the future is there a possibility of giving each of the scenes that are stacked and grouped to create the drawing on the sheet individual layers? If they could automatically be assigned layers such as Model 1 = 1st scene in the stack then we could turn scene layers off that are in front of your snap points.
The one in particular was my foundation plan where I was trying to snap to some column centers but the hatch scene is in front of it so I have to move it out of the way to hit my snap points. Your workaround suggestion wouldn’t have worked because all end and mid points of the column I was dimension too were behind another scene. Move the scene in the way and I could snap to my points. If there was a hide tool in Layout that could work as well, but thats not on you guys
Luke …… that’s exactly what I thought was happening, thanks for confirming this for me. Won’t happen again.
BTW ……. what gives with the posting times? I posted this thread around 10am this morning but it shows 4:25pm?
Luke …… that’s exactly what I thought was happening, thanks for confirming this for me. Won’t happen again.
BTW ……. what gives with the posting times? I posted this thread around 10am this morning but it shows 4:25pm?
The other option would be to create layer Element_Casework being that 90% of what I’ve used the Element_Fixture layer for is casework and counters.
The other option would be to create layer Element_Casework being that 90% of what I’ve used the Element_Fixture layer for is casework and counters.
Check your account online and make sure you’ve released any machines that your not using it on. ConDocs only allows two installations on a license.
Check your account online and make sure you’ve released any machines that your not using it on. ConDocs only allows two installations on a license.
Luke ….. not sure what face is which color based on your style but if you click the face(s) in question and look at the Entity Info window it will show two faces with a material stacked over each other. The top rectangle representing the face is the top side, the lower rectangle representing your face would be the inside face. Hope this makes sense
Luke ….. not sure what face is which color based on your style but if you click the face(s) in question and look at the Entity Info window it will show two faces with a material stacked over each other. The top rectangle representing the face is the top side, the lower rectangle representing your face would be the inside face. Hope this makes sense
One other thing, from all my research, overclocking GPU doesn’t offer much performance gain for our use. Overclocked CPU, different story. If you overclock the CPU or GPU make sure you have sufficient cooling or it will be unstable.
Take a look at Xoticpc.com , I’ve had tremendous success with their machines. I’m on my forth machine from them and all have been overclocked machines that were rock solid stable. I could count the BSOD’s over the years on these computers on both hands and have plenty of fingers left over.
One other thing, from all my research, overclocking GPU doesn’t offer much performance gain for our use. Overclocked CPU, different story. If you overclock the CPU or GPU make sure you have sufficient cooling or it will be unstable.
Take a look at Xoticpc.com , I’ve had tremendous success with their machines. I’m on my forth machine from them and all have been overclocked machines that were rock solid stable. I could count the BSOD’s over the years on these computers on both hands and have plenty of fingers left over.
When it comes to processors clock speed is king! More cores doesn’t help Sketchup performance so look at a faster CPU even if it has less cores. My last machine purchased 11/18 was an Xotic PC running the following:
Intel i7 8086 overclocked running at over 4ghz topping out over 5.5ghz (6 cores, 12 mb cache 4-5ghz clock speed)
Gigabyte RTX 2070 with 8gb
2-Samsung EVO 970’s running stripped (raid 0).Gives me a full TB with faster search read/write speeds
32gb 3200 mHz ramThere were newer CPU’s but that was the fastest hing Intel had at the time
When it comes to processors clock speed is king! More cores doesn’t help Sketchup performance so look at a faster CPU even if it has less cores. My last machine purchased 11/18 was an Xotic PC running the following:
Intel i7 8086 overclocked running at over 4ghz topping out over 5.5ghz (6 cores, 12 mb cache 4-5ghz clock speed)
Gigabyte RTX 2070 with 8gb
2-Samsung EVO 970’s running stripped (raid 0).Gives me a full TB with faster search read/write speeds
32gb 3200 mHz ramThere were newer CPU’s but that was the fastest hing Intel had at the time
Luke ….. thanks for the compliments. I checked the Open GL settings as you suggested and they were not set to Max Texture. The problem I have is I have other models that are larger with sim detail and I don;t have the speed issues this file has. Hence why I thought this was file specific. As for my machine, it’s a very current machine, overclocked i7-8086 running over 4.0 ghz, RTX2070 with 8gb, 32 gb ram and two 500gb Samsung 970 EVO’s stripped so I’m sure computer is not my issue …lol.
Luke ….. thanks for the compliments. I checked the Open GL settings as you suggested and they were not set to Max Texture. The problem I have is I have other models that are larger with sim detail and I don;t have the speed issues this file has. Hence why I thought this was file specific. As for my machine, it’s a very current machine, overclocked i7-8086 running over 4.0 ghz, RTX2070 with 8gb, 32 gb ram and two 500gb Samsung 970 EVO’s stripped so I’m sure computer is not my issue …lol.
