Our company is using SketchUp, which I think is the simplest and most efficient 3D software I have ever used. It is very fast to learn and efficient for modeling. To be honest, I really like it.
But what is very inconvenient for me is that SketchUp is very inconvenient for large-scale projects, and its carrying capacity is a bit poor, so I have to divide the large scene into many small parts to operate.
If the carrying capacity of SketchUp can be improved by 2025, I think more users will use it. I really like this software and hope that SketchUp’s carrying capacity can be greatly improved, especially for multi-faceted and multi line models.
Sincerely hope SketchUp can solve this problem, and wish everyone a happy day in 2025!
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Can you share a model?
How many faces and edges are you working with?
Are you using a ‘fast style’ for modeling?
I work on large-scale projects. Once you have organized the groups, tags, scenes, materials, everything runs like clockwork.
A person who has used SketchUp from version 3 (that was in 2003) must have noticed how much the performance has improved since. Then we talked about a model with 100 000 faces as being monstrously large, today the limit where the application starts lagging is well over million faces.
To be honest, I wonder how much more optimization is possible within the bounds of current computer architecture before the advent of quantum computing. For instance, no 3D application vendor has yet solved the parallel-processing problem although Autodesk promised it for 3DS Max about 33 (a third of a century!) years ago.
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Thank you very much, teacher! Please give me an email address.
One trillion polygons in a scene:
I could not agree more. Sketchup and especially layout must get faster. It is painfully slow and we use the latest processors and sketchup versions to create detailed landscape designs. Unfortunately, since we love the program, if it does not start using multicores and become faster we will have to leave sketchup after 16 years.
Autocad started developing a product that utilized multi-core processing years ago. Other developers have also tried, but the goal has yet to be achieved.
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I’d be interested to hear which program you’re planning to move to that uses multiple cores for modeling applications.
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multi-core CAD softwares are like self driving cars or quantum computers or actual ai or perpetual movement or…
we’ve been talking and searching about it for decades, but it’s not there yet.
Autocad and others can use additional threads for things like writing files on disk or non-realtime rendering, but the modelling precess is single-threaded.
Autodesk published a white paper, since withdrawn, in about 1992 that promised an imminent release of a multithreaded 3DS Max modeller. Nothing heard about it since. It, like others, can render in multiple threads by now.
I do get a lot of YouTube comments about people threatening to leave if SketchUp doesn’t IMMEDIATELY start using multi-core for modeling, but when I ask them where exactly they’re planning on going, they get real quiet 
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Tell me you know nothing about computers without telling me: