SketchUp freezes even when the computer is not having to process

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@marceltanure

we wish that the next SKP versions could use more than one core

it’s not a sketchup limitation. it’s a CAD limitation.

CPUs and Multithreading

I’ll preface this post that it was originally written by one of our members who unfortunately has left the community. His information was very well written, so I found the original post using Google Magic so it could be re-posted here for the community. Multithreading In a nutshell, all 3d modeling software are single threaded since 3d model calculation is linear in nature and can then only be processed on a single thread at the time. Most calculations necessary to produce a 3d model cannot b…

SketchUp is not an exception: All 3d modeler out there are single-threaded as far as modeling goes. Some part of a 3d application (like physical simulations in SolidWorks for example) will be able to assign specific tasks to other threads but modeling per se will always be done as a single thread. Some other times, parts of the software that rely on the OS will be able to be multi-threaded by the OS itself.