Hi, I support a company who’s designer produces large SketchUp 3D models. Their current 2019 iMac (non-pro) i5 with 32GB of RAM is proving to be inadequate… it gets slow when editing and takes a very long time to render. They bought this iMac themselves without consulting me - they have now asked…

Reading about Afterburner, it seems to be purely for handling high data rate ProRes files, and wouldn’t help SketchUp at all.

Apple now has EGPU support I believe, for metal and openGL, but it’s only for a few applications that are built for it, SketchUp not being one. @colin do you know much about the apple EGPU support?

No, I haven’t tested that. I’ll see if Aaron has a spare $700 to treat me to one.

What do you mean with “render”? Just the SketchUp output or does the designer also uses an external render to produce more realistic views? We need to know which renderer. I can produce large files, as well (if you divide an edge of one meter in 10.000.000 edges, it will produce a 540 MB file) One…

Maybe not a direct answer but this might help from a day ago… [image] Advice on a desktop computer SketchUp Having gone through this process from a 2013 MBP to a desktop 18 months - 2 years ago and now making another shift back to a MBP, I thought I would share my thinkin…

Thank you kindly everyone for your thoughts and advice (how refreshing to find a well attended support forum!) The rendering is with VRay - it has been a bit slow but the client has clarified that’s just an annoyance; the sluggish performance when editing is the main issue. I asked her today what …

Hi, yes if it’s vray then the GPU in the Mac is irrelevant as VRAY only will utilise NVidia cards for accelerated GPU rendering as I described in my post. If a mac is what the user wants to use then its Purely on core count unless you use a cloud rendering service like Chaos Cloud or an Amazon servi…

Actually reading this , it’s sounds like it’s the SU engine that is struggling. Potentially, it’s the style being used during editing i.e. if profiles are turned on in the Style, this will have an enormous effect on interaction performance. Set up a light-weight editing style with Profiles off. If …

Hi @bifterx First of all… your response to the topic " Advice on a desktop computer " was incredible! What an amazing depth of knowledge you have… hats off to your sir! :sunglasses: I will check her complaints about the sluggish editing are not because she’s trying to render whilst editing! :woma…

The designer just got back to me with some screen grabs of a typical model that she works on: [image] [image]

Big-ish budget for Apple hardware setup for SketchUp 3D 2020

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Maybe not a direct answer but this might help from a day ago…

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Big-ish budget for Apple hardware setup for SketchUp 3D 2020

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