SketchUp Extension Inspection with Skimp
The Skimp extension acts as the ultimate polygon reducer and importer for the design professionals. The Skimp extension helps to simplify the SketchUp design models before and after importing, thus, the Skimp extension helps to speed up the entire design procedure. The Skimp extension helps to keep the SketchUp design model light and fast, and this can be done by simplifying the SketchUp design model. The Skimp extension also helps to import and decimate the SketchUp models along with millions of faces, and this process can be done within a few seconds.
The Skimp extension helps to degrade the geometry of the design models without any compromise to the design quality. The Skimp extension has the ability to work with complex design models or work with those design models which are too heavy to manage by the SketchUp software.
The design professionals are allowed to import 3D models without bloating the file size of the 3D models with the help of the Skimp extension. For those design professionals who are engaged in enormous design projects, this SketchUp extension is appropriate.
The Skimp extension is available at the SketchUp Extension Warehouse. The Skimp extension is compatible with different versions of the SketchUp software, including SketchUp 2021, SketchUp 2022, SketchUp 2023, SketchUp 2024, and SketchUp 2025. The Skimp extension has been supported by Mac and Windows. The supported language for the Skimp extension is English.
Design features of the Skimp extension
Simplification feature
The Skimp extension can reduce the number of faces, as well as help to reduce the file size of the SketchUp design. This helps to simplify the SketchUp design model during the maintenance of the visual appearance of those design models. By using the Skimp extension, users do not require any supercomputer to get high-quality design models from the 3D Warehouse.
Importing, preview and optimisation feature
The Skimp extension acts as the fastest importer extension for the SketchUp software. Different types of files, including USD, GLB, FBX, SKP, OBJ, STL, DAE, PLY, and VRML, can be imported by the Skimp extension into the SketchUp software. This importing process can be done within just seconds. Apart from the importing feature, the Skimp extension also enables users to preview the design model, as well as simplify the design model before conducting the importing process. This preview of the design can also be done within just a few seconds.
In addition, the users are able to adjust the orientation of the design models, the model units and also the number of faces inside the SketchUp model. This process helps to prevent the wastage of time for generating millions of faces for the design models. The import preview feature of the Skimp extension helps to show the size of the bounding box of the design model, as a result, the users do not have to trial while setting the model units.
Replacing the texture tools
A nifty tool has been included in the Skimp extension, which helps to replace the textures of the materials of the design models. The texture position can be preserved by the Skimp extension while replacing the textures.
Compatibility feature
The Skimp extension is compatible with Mac and any kind of PC. As a result, this SketchUp extension can be accessed by any design professional.
Functionality of the Skimp extension
Enabling the selective simplification process
Through the Skimp extension, the user can select any number of design groups and components in the SketchUp design model. This process can be done within just a few seconds. The Skimp extension also helps to preserve the design model hierarchy of the users.
Enabling polygon reduction in the SketchUp software
In the case of 3D printing and CAD applications, there is no sacrifice in accuracy while the user reduces the polygons of the design models.
Whereas, the Skimp extension enables users to specify the error tolerance distance for the simplification of the SketchUp design model. As a result, the details that fall under the tolerance can be preserved with the help of the Skimp extension.
How to download the Skimp extension for the SketchUp software
To download the Skimp extension, the users have to follow several steps, which are as follows:
1. In the first step, the user has to order the license key for accessing the Skimp extension.
2. In the next step, the users have to download the Skimp RBZ file. In this context, it needs to be remembered that the users should not open, run or double-click on the Skimp RBZ file.
To learn more, watch the following video tutorial.
Video Source: SketchUp
Download Skimp Extension for the SketchUp
3. In the next step, the users have to install RBZ file along with the SketchUp Extension Manager. After this, the users have to activate their license to access the Skimp extension.
