SketchUp Madness

[glorybound]

I am going to travel the globe smacking SketchUp out of un qualified hands. What the hell! Any recommended scripts to try to automate the cleanup? Flipped normals and double faces everywhere I look.

[francomanko]

im feeling ya, I end up basically remodelling the whole thing, just using it as scale reference.

[glorybound]

That's what I am having to do. It's a huge site, so it's madness. I mean, everything is wrong with this model and they couldn't have done worse if the tried.

[flino2004]

Don't blame SketchUp...fatal user error

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aohif7AjuBw

[fixeighted]

I quoted a couple of times based on the fact they had a sketchup model...from the architects themselves. I very wrongly assumed they would know what they were doing.
I was so wrong and it was an awful, awful mess. I felt honour-bound to stick to my quote and so put up with the nonsense.
Needless to say, never again. Only useful as a template imo.

[glorybound]

I questioned this architect and he said that his guys are the best in the business. I told him that I'll quote based on a flattened set of documents; he wanted a discount, which I didn't give to him.

[fixeighted]

...the best in what business though? That's the question. Maybe they're actually bakers and their cakes are awesome!?

[glorybound]

Put it this way, if their cakes taste as bad as their SketchUp model is built we are in trouble and there will be some lawsuits.

[Vizioen]

I only quote based on the SketchUp I receive and explain to them why it isn't usable in case of these kind of things. Only 10% of the models I receive are somewhat usable. If I'm lucky they draw with components and it's easy to add adjustements/detail or replace the whole thing. SketchUp is a wonderful tool to model with (if not too organic). But it can be completely miss used, unfortunately that's almost always the case.

[glorybound]

I have found joining everything in MAX and editing poly using the material ID is easiest. If I join everything and pick the id for, let's say grass and detach it, works well.

[fixeighted]

Lucky you! LOL in one of those I got stuffed on, the model I got had, for instance, parts of the brickwork connected to completely different other parts of the geometry which had a different material or even multi-mat, all of which were duplicated and uniquely named.
This was true of the entire model and it is bewildering to me that someone managed to screw it up to such a degree. It was impossible to pull apart and so I pretty much had to scrap the lot.
As I said, lesson learned

[glorybound]

When I ran my material to layer script, every element had a unique material, even though the materials were the same. For instance, the same brick, but every element with brick and had different brick material. After I cleaned everything up I had to delete a couple of thousand layers.

[fixeighted]

It's a little bizarre that there is simply software existing that serves to partially mitigate others' errors

[piotrus3333]

are you guys using 3ds max importer for su files?

[glorybound]

Yes, and I am on MAX 2020. I just imported a site plan and each poly is an element and the normals are arbitrarily flipped all over the place.