Smoothing geometry for Google Warehouse object imports?

[Anonymous]

When importing objects from Google Sketchup the result in ArchiCAD is always really faceted/triangulated-looking regardless of whether the edges were first smoothed in Sketchup. This is fine for rectilinear shapes but not so much for shapes with warped surfaces.

A similar topic was discussed in this thread:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=35949&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=desc&highligh...
However the strategy was based around manipulating the 2D symbolic view of the object in Section/Elevation.

I've noticed that the smoothing function of the mesh tool translates to GDL library parts when saved. Does anyone have any magical ideas for communicating the Google Sketchup geometry to a mesh (maybe as a contour map) that can then be smoothed?

Does anyone have any other bright ideas for simplifying the resulting appearance of Google Warehouse object imports in section/elevation view?

[Anonymous]

If you can wait a week or two until ArchiCAD 16 is released, then the new Morph tool will be very useful for this problem.

http://www.archicadwiki.com/RemoveTriangulationFromImportedObjects

[Gerald Hoffman]

Oh goodie ! Thanks Peter, that looks great, that might be worth the upgrade alone as there are now lots of model parts out there which I have only attempted to use when I couldn't do anything else, and then it didn't look very good due to all the facets.

Cheers,

[Anonymous]

Gerald wrote:
Oh goodie ! Thanks Peter, that looks great, that might be worth the upgrade alone as there are now lots of model parts out there which I have only attempted to use when I couldn't do anything else, and then it didn't look very good due to all the facets.

Cheers,

It does sound useful, doesn't it!

I don't know any of the details, but I suspect that this is what the new bimcomponents.com website will be based on - the user-led conversion of the 1000's of existing Sketchup and 3ds based objects that are currently too poly-heavy and not set up for 2d.

And as the Morph tool allows you to 'explode' any object back into editable Morphs, I guess it should be easy to remove or add extra detail and reduce polycount, then save it back again.

[Anonymous]

Sweet. I hope it works as effortlessly as their example there.

[rocorona]

Peter wrote:

And as the Morph tool allows you to 'explode' any object back into editable Morphs, I guess it should be easy to remove or add extra detail and reduce polycount, then save it back again.

Throwing away the historical parametricity of GDL. Amen.

[Anonymous]

rocorona wrote:
Throwing away the historical parametricity of GDL. Amen.

-Very true

[Anonymous]

rocorona wrote:
Throwing away the historical parametricity of GDL. Amen.

RIP GDL parametricity. Amen.

[Anonymous]

Jose wrote:

rocorona wrote:
Throwing away the historical parametricity of GDL. Amen.

RIP GDL parametricity. Amen.

it is far far away... i think

[Anonymous]

ila2 wrote:

Jose wrote:

rocorona wrote:
Throwing away the historical parametricity of GDL. Amen.

RIP GDL parametricity. Amen.

it is far far away... i think

Its a joke...