I have a SketchUp Pro 22.0.353 running on Macbook M1 Pro with16GB Ram.
I’ve opened a file of a gallery space, which seems to be very simple and weighs only 8Mb.
As I ‘walk’ and ‘zoom’ through the space, everything seems to work smoothly, but when i try to import some images (less than 200kb) and then try to ‘move’ or ‘rotate’ them, it lags a lot and works very slowly. almost impossible. The same happens with drawing lines, using measuring tapes, and working with simple objects from the 3D Warehouse.
On my friend’s PC, everything runs smoothly.
Does anyone familiar with this Mac problem and can kindly recommend a solution?
Spantan had a problem with sketchup 2022 on mac.
but it worked fine on a PC
you have a problem with sketchup 2023 on pc (according to your profile)
it’s quite the opposite isn’t it ?
share a slow file. 9 times out of 10, when people come to this forum and complain about sluggishness, it can be solved by a bit of cleanup and good practices.
No, i run Sketchup on a Virtual Windows 11 Machine on my MacBook M1 Pro 16 GB, it nearly freeze when i use the aluvision extention and try there the magnetic snap tool
Put that in your forum profile for the operating system.
That is not the Free Plan. It would be Pro. Please correct your forum profile.
Does this happen even with a fresh file or just the project you are working on? It might be that simply optimizing your SketchUp model would sort it out for you. Share the file so we can see what you are working with.
I don’t think your problem is SketchUp 2024 or your Mac with M2. It’s sluggish on my machine, too. It behaves better if Profile Edges are turned off in the Style. You also have a bunch of plany components in the model with a ton of geometry which makes the GPU work harder no matter which GPU. Examples:
I did my usual cleanup. First I fixed incorrect tag usage.
Then I purged unused stuff from your model. There’s no reason to be hoarding components and materials that you aren’t using.
There are a few excessively large texture images.remaining in the model after purging.
Some of these textures don’t add anything at all to your model except file bloat. Do you really need a texture image for the page edges on the books? Do you even really need the textures for the book covers? They are all backwards anyway.
The cleanup I did reduced your file size by about 70%. I’ll upload it to DropBox and share the link shortly. You can see if it behaves better. I would suggest that you go through the model, though, and remove the detail that doesn’t add anything useful to the “story” you are trying to tell.
Another example while I’m looking: Do you need that hidden rectangle or the person and the dimensioned thing near him in the work table component? If not, getting rid of that stuff will help.
Thank you so much for your help, i’m so confused earlier what happend to my project bcs it’s my first time using sketch up. So i don’t know the issues i’m into, so i search how to fix it before i found this forum. i did clean the purged but saw how you fix it maybe i did it wrong that’s why it still laggy. Thank you so so much
You really should take the time to go through the tutorials that are provided at learn.sketchup.com It’s really important to learn how to properly manage your models while you are creating them.
A note about downloading from the 3D Warehouse and other sources: First, be discerning about what you download and consider what important features do the objects bring to your project. Don’t download objects directly into your project file. Download them into a separate file so you can check them out for suitability and clean them up before copying them into your model. Or reject them and look further. Think about things like the books in this model. Are you going to create an images from the model where the texture for the edges of the pages will be seen? Will you ever create an image that shows the books clearly enough to read the titles on the spines? If not, those textures are all cost and no benefit. Get rid of them and use simple colors where needed. They’ll still read as books on a shelf to your audience.
I guess since I don’t know what you did when you purged your file I can’t say if you did it wrong. Clearly it wasn’t totally purged.
