Aw: [Radiance-general] RE: Sketchup exporter script
Mardaljevic John
jm at dmu.ac.uk
Thu Nov 1 09:18:22 PDT 2007
Hi Rob,
> And John M, how complex was your model? We just successfully used
> Thomas' script to export an 80MB SketchUp model to Radiance!
My SU model was only a 1/3 the size of yours: about 26Mb (Edges
124168, Faces 60278). The Radiance export took about 13 mins on a
2.16GHz C2D MB (2Gb RAM). The exported rad file was of size 13Mb and
contained 60278 polygons. For comparison, exporting the same model
to Radiance via 3DS (& MGF) was much quicker but gave a rad file of
size 38Mb with 188043 polygons (because of the conversion to
triangles, of course).
The smaller rad file did produce a number of "non-planar vertex"
warnings (as one might expect). I haven't tried out the model much
since I would need to first change all the material colours in SU to
match the scheme used for the layers.
Hats off to TB for this very handy utility!
-John
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