I use Sketchup all the time. I import AutoCAD 2D files into it and make them 3D. Every once in a while there are a lot of small circles on the drawing and Sketchup will slow way down and repeatedly say “not responding”. My graphics card says it’s only using 10%. What can I do to speed this up. I ha…

I’m not sure it was mentioned, but sometimes (often) a circle will be exploded to edges and then it will not be possible to inference the center. It still looks like all the other circles but is just edges or line segments. The imported AutoCAD “circles” may be like this already.

So I watched a few videos and they must just be the basics because it was nothing new to me. None of them mentioned using rectangles. They did say to use groups. I have never used group at all. If I need to copy a “group” of stuff I will just pull it off to the side and select it to copy paste when …

Here is another example of why learning and understanding the software would help you immeasurably. I gave you the guidepoints in the earlier model and this is how you could use them with a single component to easily replace all your circles. Understanding groups and components are fundamental to …

Well Even with that it would have been a lot to erase all my circles. What I did was change my AutoCAD drawing by making 2 layers and tracing a diamond over all the circles. This worked great in Sketchup and I got a bunch done. Later I used a rounding plug in and that slowed it down a hair. Guess th…

I have a question about the erase tool. When I run the tool over a bunch of lines to erase it doesn’t select them all unless I move the cursor very slow. Is this something I’m doing wrong or is it the program? Many times I can’t make a box to select for erasing.

This is where grouping really helps utilizing hide rest of model.

What are the specs on your computer? Have you said before?

I have 12 GB of memory. The problem here was explained that the circles just had too much info. Anyways here are my first test prints. [IMG_6682] [IMG_6684]

[image] Chris333: I did learn a bit though. But I doubt I could have made the base drawing with Sketchup. It was traced from a photograph. People model off photographs all the time. This really isn’t productive for everyone to keep telling you the software can do what you want it to, only for…

Sketchup is really slow and "not responding"

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Chris333 November 19, 2021, 2:06pm 83

For what it’s worth. I just installed this plug in and it lets you change multiple circle segment counts at once.

The drawing is done now, but the above plugin could have fixed my problem.

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Sketchup is really slow and "not responding"

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