Is sketchup eventually using the API for macOS, Metal and take full advantage of the apple gpu? Is it even posible to do it?

[colin]

I have an M1 Max MacBook Pro as well, running macOS Ventura. SketchUp still appears to running ok. I used an app called GLView, and it tells me that OpenGL 4.1 is still available to apps. I don’t know if there is a translation layer to then really do things with Metal 3, but however it works, SketchUp is running faster than my work Intel Mac

I found this discussion about switching to Metal:

Time to drop OpenGL in favor of Metal/DX12

Hello everyone. We’ve loved SketchUp for a very long time now. We built our business into what it is today because of the excellent renderings produced in SketchUp. But, when it’s time, it’s time. Folks at Trimble - you gotta get with the program and drop OpenGL in favor of Metal. Or at least optimize the MAC OS version of SketchUp. We upgrade our hardware every other year. SketchUp is the only app that doesn’t really benefit from the upgrades. Even your own Aaron uses a Mac during the skill bui…

It wanders off a bit, talking about how few Macs there are, but that doesn’t matter really. Close to 100% of Mac users would be happy to see SketchUp using Metal. You could add some comments to that topic.