Hey, what is up, nation?
In this session we're gonna be looking at a question
that was asked on the Sketchup forum by ImEdub, who asks
"How do I completely clean out the file
while preserving my scene so I can minimize my file size?".
Let's get into that after the intro!
Okay, so I've brought in a file from the 3D warehouse.
It was actually made by a gentleman named Arc Ray.
I'll post a link in description below if you want to
check out this model and some of his work.
You can do that. And this particular scenario
may not be the best.
But let's say, you get a file from a client and
this was made by an interior designer.
And now you're the architect on it.
So you want to get rid of some of this stuff,
and then reduce your file size.
Or in this particular case, maybe the file size is just crazy,
and you want to just
bear bear' down to the bring it down to the smallest amount.
Or the third scenario would be a lot of times.
If you use stuff from the 3D warehouse,
you start putting, adding components in.
And it's like not quite right, not what you are looking for.
And so you delete it.
But that instance of the component actually
stays in the model.
So if you do that over and over and over again,
it can really increase your file size.
So what we're gonna do in this, is we're actually
going to delete those components.
So we can reduce your file size that way.
When you load up at the beginning, it'll be faster.
And when you work, it'll be faster.
If you look over on your default tray, you can see
there is a file or a flyout tab called "components".
And in here we have a few different things.
Now we're inside this group at the moment,
so I'm just going to delete some different
components that are inside of this.
Let's say, you know, we didn't need these,
or we wanted to do our own design for them.
So I'm just gonna delete all this stuff.
These guys. And before I hit "Save",
I'm just going to show you the file size.
So you see, we here we're a little bit over 11,000 kilobytes.
So in here, if I hit "Save" after deleting those,
the file size might change a little bit.
So it changes a little bit. But it's still over.
I think is still is still over 11,000.
So a slight change.
But the file size didn't really change,
because those components are still in this file.
So if we want to actually reduce the size of the file
from those things you just go to Window ->
Model Info, and then there's the statistics column over here.
Now I want to make sure that I point out
that when you go to do this, you want to make sure
that you save a copy.
And that's a copy that you don't ever open again.
But you just want to make sure that
if there's a component that you actually really need,
and you accidentally deleted it,
that you have a way to go back and get it.
So before you do this, make sure that you
save a copy as just so you have a backup
in case anything goes away.
Because once you do this step, there's no going back.
So unless you can do control, or you can do control Z to go back.
But yeah, once you save this and you exit, that's it.
So I have this little thing up here.
It says "Show nested components".
It's just gonna help us really visualize what's going on.
And then down here, if you ever need to fix problems,
you can always do that.
But the real magic here is going to be with purge unused.
It's going to click that.
And it doesn't really look like anything happened in this.
Sometimes it will, but in this particular case
it doesn't look like anything happened.
But what it did, is it got rid of all the components
that we weren't using.
So if I hit "save" here, we exit out of this.
Hit save. And then we go back to our file size.
You can see that now our Sketchup file is greatly reduced.
It's almost four times smaller then and when we previously had.
So just by getting rid of that stuff,
it just super helped our file size.
And this is going to be way quicker to open,
way easier to work within.
And if your file sizes are getting massive,
this is a great step that you can take
to really reduce them.
You can also reduce the file size of any models
that you've made using the web version of Sketchup as well.
You look over here, on the right hand side.
You can see that there's this little toolbar.
All you have to do is click this little...these three little boxes
that will bring your component flyout out.
Now this particular model I don't have any other components.
So we won't see this actually work.
But in your model, if you want to purge
some of these unused components,
you just come over here to this little recycling icon.
You can see when I mouse over, it says "Purge unused components".
You just click that, and that will get rid of any
of the unused components that you have in your model.
Hopefully this helped.
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