Sketchup and RPS 3D PDF keep crashing

Hi All

I have just downloaded the RPS 3D PDF and I am not getting very far with it.

The SKP file that I am trying to PDF is not very complicated but does have my own photos as a material/render - could this cause problems and cause it to crash?

I have managed to get a PDF created but it has nothing in it. Could this be due to Adobe recently upgrading to Adobe Reader X?

Any help would be appreciated

Best Regards

Will

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on April 13, 2011 at 5:55am

Upload your model to the Uploads tab above, and we will take a look at it.

Be sure to add a comment as you upload it so we remember what the upload was for.

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Permalink Reply by willatfensec on April 13, 2011 at 7:26am

The Sketchup file that keeps crashing when I use the 3D PDF

Attachments:

Pump station with Cedar.skb, 361 KB

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Permalink Reply by willatfensec on April 13, 2011 at 7:27am

Sorry but its the SKB but the other wasnt uploading!!

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on April 13, 2011 at 8:57am

I was able to create a PDF with your file.

There were 568,508 faces in the model. The sketchup file is very small, but the nested components and groups contain a lot of geometry.

It took 30 minutes on my laptop to extract all the faces.

Could it have been that it merely seemed as if SketchUp had crashed, because nothing was happening? Or did it really "crash" for you?

Our progress message in the status bar on SketchUp is useless for this model, since we only change it by the percent of components and faces that are processed. A large nested component defeats this. We can change it to also update the status after every 1000 faces, so that it shows you that it is still processing.

Also, can you post the PDF that you made with nothing in it, so that I could see if it displays on my machine?

I'll upload the PDF that I made, to see if you can see the model in it.

Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on April 13, 2011 at 9:04am

Here is the PDF I created, using your model.

Attachments:

PumpstationwithCedar (1).pdf, 84.7 MB

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Permalink Reply by willatfensec on April 13, 2011 at 9:06am

Hi Rich Hart

I have attached the PDF - its 0kb so I doubt there anything on it

Sketchup say at the bottom 1% writing geometry then crashes but like you said could be the nested components - the screws

I have successfully PDF some other simpler files

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on April 13, 2011 at 9:33am

No, there is no need to post an empty file.

willatfensec said:

Hi Rich Hart

I have attached the PDF - its 0kb so I doubt there anything on it

Sketchup say at the bottom 1% writing geometry then crashes but like you said could be the nested components - the screws

I have successfully PDF some other simpler files