Hi, Can I ask is there any plans to make Sketchup and Layout a multi-core CPU application? I am running a very fast 16 core ACM Threadmaster (with 64 gig of ram, a nice fast new solid state hard drive and decent graphics card) and it’s pretty frustrating that only 1 of the 16 cores is functional?

[image] jgoding: what’s the point making observations about performance & user issues with your software then if we’re just going to get ignored? Who said you were being ignored? I didn’t. All I told you was that questions about what new features and when they are going to be released will no…

Mate how about calm down with the attiude mate. Just chill.

There’s no attitude on this end.

Hmmm ok. Maybe I misunderstood. So just to recap can you help summarise how realistic it is that Sketchup, or any other drawing package is made to work with a multi-core processor computer at some stage in the near future? (not asking you for a commitment that Sketchup will do it, just in general i…

The multi-core thing has been requested perhaps since the beginning. There are other CAD drawing programs that reported long ago that multi-core was coming. Even years after making that statement, they still have yet to produce anything. I’d be inclined to say that multi-core isn’t possible or at le…

Thank you for getting back on topic. So basically is it fair to summarise that there is some technical software issue precluding all cad packages from currently running multi-core (at present), but it may be posisble in the future? The benefits if SU & layout moving to a multi-core CPU application …

So the benefit you’re looking for is not in SketchUp, it’s in rendering. Use a rendering application that is capable of multi-threaded processing. Many are. According to the Podium site, it is too. SU Podium V2.5+ for SketchUp SU Podium | Rendering for SketchUp made easy …

It’s clear. I understood that from the beginning.

[image] VRAY rendering time and speed Pro Actually, in the long run, the render time stays the same, quality keeps getting better, depending on the system. https://www.google.nl/amp/s/nevalalee.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/blinns-law-and-the-paradox-of-efficiency/amp/

[image] jgoding: So basically is it fair to summarise that there is some technical software issue precluding all cad packages from currently running multi-core (at present), but it may be posisble in the future? It is impossible to say with certainty that any particular technical challenge wi…

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