I also got rid of a crazy amount of plug-ins and extensions that I no longer needed.Ī very handy tool that does a more thorough cleanup than just purging is the CleanUp3 tool (found for free on Extension Warehouse), I’ve been using this tool for ages! It’s so very handy in cleaning up my model & reducing its size. So having updated and compatible software is important. Make sure Sketchup & VRay are Updated and Compatibleīefore I could pull this off I updated my Sketchup to 2018 (2017 previously) and VRay to 4.00.02 (4.00.01 caused a lot of crashing and weird display glitches). How did I manage to pull off rendering that huge model to a 2222 x 1250 resolution image? Here’s how:

It’s 5 years old and had a few pieces fall apart & gotten replaced.AMD (Radeon) Graphics Card with 2GB dedicated memory.

Why would I even create a model this big? To figure out how to render it on my laptop without it crashing and create this tutorial to show you that I succeeded and so can you! This model right here is exactly 337 Mb in size, containing 2,049,090 Edges, 11,26,994 Faces, 508 Components, 321 Groups, and a ton of high quality materials.

Vray 5 tutorial sketchup