# Anyone have a quality rendering plug in that works on a M1 chip

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**Category:** Extensions\
**Tags:** rendering\
**Created:** [July 6, 2022, 11:02pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/anyone-have-a-quality-rendering-plug-in-that-works-on-a-m1-chip/202810 "2022-07-06T23:02:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![thomas.stewart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9c0ed/32.png) [@thomas.stewart](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/thomas.stewart)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 11:02pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/anyone-have-a-quality-rendering-plug-in-that-works-on-a-m1-chip/202810/1 "2022-07-06T23:02:07Z")

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I’ve just upgraded to a new Mac Studio. Seems most rendering plug ins don’t work with M1 Chip. Anyone have any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![ntxdave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/ntxdave/32/12096_2.png) [@ntxdave](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/ntxdave)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 11:21pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/anyone-have-a-quality-rendering-plug-in-that-works-on-a-m1-chip/202810/2 "2022-07-06T23:21:09Z")

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Have you looked at Twilight Render?

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**Author:** ![colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/colin/32/266703_2.png) [@colin](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/colin)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 11:24pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/anyone-have-a-quality-rendering-plug-in-that-works-on-a-m1-chip/202810/3 "2022-07-06T23:24:08Z")

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Any Mac renderer that doesn’t support Apple Silicon, can be used by doing a Get Info on SketchUp and choosing the Open with Rosetta option. That would mean poorer general performance. I duplicated SketchUp and set one to open in Rosetta, then I can get better performance most of the time, and live with the slower performance when needing to use an extension that hasn’t been updated yet.

Twilight Render is in that set of extensions, they didn’t yet update it for Apple Silicon.

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**Author:** ![ntxdave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/ntxdave/32/12096_2.png) [@ntxdave](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/ntxdave)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 1:31am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/anyone-have-a-quality-rendering-plug-in-that-works-on-a-m1-chip/202810/4 "2022-07-07T01:31:18Z")

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Thanks for the reply. I do not have a Mac but I do know they support some versions of Mac.

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**Author:** ![colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/colin/32/266703_2.png) [@colin](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/colin)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 3:05am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/anyone-have-a-quality-rendering-plug-in-that-works-on-a-m1-chip/202810/5 "2022-07-07T03:05:54Z")

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Yes, they do, and they even have a link in the downloads page to show how to use Rosetta for now. I hope they do an update some day.

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**Author:** ![PaulRussam](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/paulrussam/32/218220_2.png) [@PaulRussam](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/PaulRussam)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 8:24am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/anyone-have-a-quality-rendering-plug-in-that-works-on-a-m1-chip/202810/6 "2022-07-07T08:24:25Z")

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Enscape for Mac is in Public Beta at the mo with release this year [https://enscape3d.com/enscape-for-mac/](https://enscape3d.com/enscape-for-mac/)  
NOTE: As of typing this the current beta is for SU2021 ONLY. 2022 support will come with another beta release