I’m not sure which forum topic this belongs in, but since I’m talking about Eneroth’s Solid Tools, I thought I’d try the “Extensions” topic. Eneroth Solid Tools on SketchUp 2026.1 (also 2026.0 and, I think, 2025) on my M1 Max MacBook Pro (running Sequoia 15.5) is running extremely slow doing either…

There’s a lot of geometry to process so you need to give it time. You might try Bool Tools 2 instead. It’s often faster. This is real time with Bool Tools2

Thanks Dave. SU Solid Tools (SST for short) was near real-time-ish. Eneroth’s Solid Tools (EST for short) used to be just as fast. I’m just wondering if there’s a Mac/SketchUp/EST code problem now? Also, thanks for the Bool Tools 2 lead. I’ll try that out as well. That said, in your screen cap vid…

Eneroth Solid Tools taking a very long time to do a subtract or trim (SU 2026 on Mac)

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bmike December 18, 2025, 9:43am 4

Since you are working with components I copied and scaled the objects x100.

This was real time with Trim+Keep Plugin working on my Mac:

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Eneroth Solid Tools taking a very long time to do a subtract or trim (SU 2026 on Mac)

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