What constitutes a good 3D Warehouse model? Follow this checklist!
This is a checklist to help you make good quality 3D Warehouse models.
Also check the video above, it is one of a series made by SketchUp, detailing each of the items on the checklist in more detail.
A good model should follow the following guidelines:
- Be at real-world size
- Use a common sense axes origin
- Orient faces properly
- Minimize geometry to represent the item
- Minimize material image sizes
- Embed useful metadata
- Restructure for 3D Warehouse content
- Purge unused layers, components and materials (Model Info > Purge unused)
- Use one layer: Layer0 (or minimal layers)
- Use a simple consistent style
- Avoid stray geometry
- Avoid section planes
- Avoid guides
- Use only appropriate text and dimensions
- Choose only appropriate geolocation
- Test for correct behavior
Download the 3D warehouse checklist here.
Also see our other article: Your products in the 3D Warehouse
Or check the article on the official SketchUp Website: Making a Great 3D Warehouse Model for more in-depth descriptions of these guidelines.