I’m trying to import a terrain from SketchUp with the snapshot to replicate later the building locations. No matter where I take the terrain from, the snapshot location shown seems stuck in a previous one. The only exception is a sketch file I used a few days ago which still open correctly. Any new sketch up file I import opens the same image. The topographic data seems to be fine as it varies according to the location.
Hi Nestor -
Could you explain what “snapshot” means in this context?
Also, perhaps you should attach a SketchUp file? From the information provided so far, I don’t understand what the issue is.
-wim
Hi,
sorry, I mean the image of the map that can be seen when you click in rendered.
Test_4.skp (990.4 KB)
For example in this case is a terrain from Scotland, but when I try to open it on Rhino the image I see is a cut from a previous file. This cut is not even the entire previous file as the error estarted with the that previous skp file importing only a portion instead of the entire terrain region. I’ve tried doing it with of regions and the result is the same image with different topography. The image below is from a different terrain but the map seen is the same as the one uploaded above.
Hi Nestor -
Are you importing different .skp files into the same Rhino scene?
If so, I suppose we’d need more than 1 of those SketchUp files.
At the moment I’m leaning toward different textures having the same name but I’m not completely sure of the workflow that you are using.
Also, please run the Rhino SystemInfo command and copy-paste that information here.
-wim
I’ve tried closing everything and start from scratch a few times. I use Geolocalization in SketchUp, then save the .skp and import to Rhino, It worked two days ago. Now the image shown in Rhino is always the same. I’ve tried closing it, unistalling it but no matter what skp file I try the image shown in rhino is always the same. Not enterily sure if it Rhino related, I’m starting to consider that the issue may be originated in SketchUp (but it still gets the topography correct).
Thanks!
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Hi -
It does sound like something that needs to be fixed in Rhino but I’m still not sure of the complete workflow here. And I also still think that I’ll need at least 2 different .skp files from you.
Importing your Test_4.skp file into a new Rhino document gives me the following:
That seems to be the correct result.
-wim
Yes that is the right topography. Here there are 2 other skp that I cannot open correctly, I think Test_3 corresponds with the profile from my first post (but not the images).
Test_3.skp (1.9 MB)
test_2.skp (3.7 MB)
This is the only one that I can still open correctly, though it was created a few days ago.
test_1.skp (1.2 MB)
I’m quite new to rhino so don’t know a lot and I may be missing something on options that appears when importing. Although my workflow is pretty much only that.
Thanks for those other files, Nestor.
That’s clearly a bug in Rhino somewhere and I’ve written that up as RH-69604 for a developer to take a closer look.
In the meanwhile, you can delete the texture file on your disk to get a different SketchUp file to look fine. With any of those terrains selected in Rhino, go to the Properties panel and select the “Material” tab. Then look under the “Textures” heading and click on the “Location snapshot.jpg” link that is used for “Color”. This will pop up a different dialog box. Under the image in that dialog, you will find a field with “Filename” that can be selected but underneath that one is a “Found at:” entry. When you browse to that location in Windows Explorer, you can delete that file. The next time a SketchUp file is imported in Rhino, a new jpg file will be written here but that should then be the one that is needed for the file that you just imported. I hope that gets you somewhat further…
-wim
Yes it should help, at least in the short term. Thank you very much for all the help!
Do you have “embed textures in model” checked when you open/import the model? Since both image files have the same name, currently, I suspect the image file gets overwritten in the model. When you don’t embed them a directory is created with the file name so the textures can coincide even though they have the same filename.
Now it seem to work fine with both checked and unchecked embebed textures box for all the skp file, don’t know what changed though. Thank you.
Edit: After checking the skp files I have 4/7 open correctly with embebed texture crossed and 3 are wrong (always same image part from the first skp file I used, not included in this 7). When unchecking that box 6/7 open correctly and 1 is still that image. Not sure if that makes any sense, but I’ve tried going through every file I have covering both options.
Edit 2: Gone through all of them again trying both ‘import’ and ‘open’, now all of them opened fine. Still don’t understand it, but it works for me now.
Hi Nestor,
It has to do (I think at this point) with having the embed textures checked and importing a file into a model that already had one of these SketchUp (SU) files imported into it. The name of the image files in the SU files is the same so the embedded texture is either overwritten by the second one or the second is skipped because it has the same name as the first. When you don’t embed the files the complete path of the 2 textures with the same filename is different so it works.
This is a little bit speculative at the moment because I have not dug into the code but it has to be something like that if I’m not right.
Tim
Thank you for your time. Just to give all the info, when this ocured to me on wednesday I even unistalled Rhino, wouldn’t that delete any pre-stablished files from previous imports?
You know, I was just talking to Pascal about this and I think I experienced what you’re seeing. It must be some sort of image caching. Not something that the SKP importer does but I’ll dig in and see if I can figure out what’s going on.
You could also use the Heron pluginn for importing terrain models. Toghether with Human it works perfect.
Hi,
I guessed what I have encountered is related to this.
I imported a Sketchup model into Rhino (I tried both Rhino 7 and Rhino 8), and the image mapping is not oriented and scaled correctly.
I would be very grateful if someone knew how to handle this 
Hi Jonathan -
Issue RH-69604 was fixed in Rhino 8 during the beta phase.
In the notes, I see that you’d have to run TestClearRDKCaches before importing the SketchUp file.
If that doesn’t work, please post the SketchUp file that you are having issues with.
-wim
Hi, thank you for your help 
I am not sure if I ran TestClearRDKCaches correctly. I typed it into the command line and it showed 0 files deleted. (I am not a very experienced user 
) However, the import result was the same.
The skp file is a typical geolocation terrain model, but the size is about 100MB, which exceeds the limit to upload, so I share it with the link below.
Hi Jonathan -
Thanks for that file, I’m seeing the same here.
Could you add an image of how that looks in SketchUp? (as this clearly is not the same dataset as the one that you posted images of).
I’ve put this issue on the list as RH-79599 File IO: SketchUp: Incorrect texture mapping scale
-wim
