briefly watched some demo vids - looks like stone age so far.

@jenujacob said: I had a similar issue once and I belive I exploded the group and the problem got fixed. It might solve the issue for you as well. Thanks but the model was exploded. But I have the answer.......when you import the SU model you need to tick the "FixUV/Texture" box and all problems will dissapear. I was concerned as another fix was to project image as texture also works but would have taken a few hours on this model. I have attached where the "FixUV/Texture" is located and it needs to be set before importing. [image: g0xf_FixUVtexture.jpg]

@nlipovac said: @tomankubik said: Hi guys, Im Sketchup user almost 14 years...mostly on Windows, now Version 2020 Pro + Vray 5 + D5 render... But I have bought new Apple M1 chip Macbook Air 2020, the base config with 8GB RAM...honestly I Have to say thats great with Sketchup /no issues and almost fast as my win-workstation/ but my question was...what about reder.... VRAY 5 works well /I did maybe 10 test renders of my old scenes.../ nothing heavy, almost now issues /I had to work aournd with Fur-grass setup a bit/ and I have tested Twilight render....and it works...and works great / I was searching for something fast to produce renders on Macbook Air beacuse seems like Im leaving Vray after 10 years and switching to D5 render/ Hope these infos are helpful for someone I was roaming around D5 renderer but I came across here that it uses new RTX Nvidia cards for rendering and since I will wait some more time to get a reasonable price on 3090. https://www.yuque.com/d5render/ra7gmc/zve62y So, on new M1 silicon there are no RTX and Nvidia options at all, how will you utilize renderer? Well D5 render is Nvidia based, RTX is not necesity but really good to have. I was working on RTX 2060 with 6GB and it was enough for my purpose /stills max 4K/ and the rendertimes was maximum 2minutes per image.... but when you are aiming for long 4K videos its better to go for RTX 3.... series, but the problem is that is really out of stock now... Now is my setup MAcbook Air for daily work /web, emails, CAD drawings in Draftsight, modeling in Sketchup, quick preview renders in Vray or Twilight/ and when I need to work on archviz I turn on win workstation and run D5 render... but now its maybe once a week or so...

Medeek has a sale (40% off) on for the mdkBIM suite and only that, not for other / individual extension.

Which is why I said similar, not the same as.

Totally amazing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2flQQqy7VQY

Impressive but apparently a cloud operation only.

Thanks

SketchUp v2017 Make is the last available desktop version. It works in Win10 [64bit]. It is for non-commercial use. The newer 'Pro' versions all work with Win10, but of course it cost$... For non-commercial work there's the free Web based version, which is newer when looking at its functionality, however it doesn't support 'extensions', and has some other limitations and differences that you might not appreciate/need... For non-commercial work I'd suggest trying v2017 Make as your first step...

A cool review! https://youtu.be/1v2FM_z3kWM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcYe_QgkDq4

Hyper easy! ( free online version) [image: rEzRcexJ_o.jpg]

Matrix Revolution

@ntxdave said: This looks like an amazing tool but can it be used with Sketchuo? Nope. But SU can create other non-animated assets used by the rendering program (-s) that will make use of this.

Seems it's for Twinmotion and not for Lumion 10 !

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Three weeks ago I upgraded to a Ryzen 7 3700X on a Gigabyte X570 Aorus PRO. Really happy with the speed. A few things though; its new. The X570 bios is still in its infancy so still issues to be solved by AMD and the mobo manufacturers. Edit: for instance XMP enabled can cause BSOD - I only see that when building UE from source in VisualStudio. For the rest the system is stable all the time with XMP enabled. boot times for some reason are very long on the x570 platform. Almost a minute (even with fast PCI-e M2). Also, the x570 chipset has active cooling on most mobo's apparently the Ryzen 7 3000 series behave more like a GPU where they reach (and maintain) top performance only when the temps are low (if there's enough cooling) and throttle down speed when the temps get too high. the Ryzen 7 3000 series cpu's temp go up&down 45-65-45 degrees every second even when just browsing. I have a Noctua fan on the cpu and 3 more in the case but they just can't keep up with the temperature spikes (just like any other fan / cooling solution I expect). Fan noise going up&down was really annoying until a custom profile was set in the bios where the fans are at 60% speed from 0 to 75 degrees (barely audible) and ramp up to 100% when above 75c. Now I almost never hear the fans again. finally still a few issues with lower max turbo speeds compared to what AMD's promo machine wants us to believe. In short; the turbo speed is only achieved for a few milliseconds by one core and most of the time a bit lower. The 3700X is at 4,2Ghz - 4,3 Ghz most of the time and spikes 4,4Ghz only every now and then. Look on YouTube for 'Der Bauer Ryzen' videos for more info. Still I'm happy with the 3700X. It crushes compile times on UnrealEngine and the machine feels very snappy. Feel free to ask more questions Edit: added videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgSoZAdk_E8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LesYlfhv3o

I'd change the 1TB M.2 NVME SSD to a 512GB Samsung 970 Pro SSD (this will be OS drive with apps installed here also), then get a separate 1TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD (for data / storage). Rather get Windows 10 Pro, you can join network domains that way. Consider changing the GTX1660 5GB for a GTX 1070 8GB (or GTX 1080 8GB or better) if you're planning to do any rendering. Make sure the 32GB RAM is in a 2x16GB configuration, this will leave you with the option to buy another 2x16GB (of the same) if you want to upgrade this, will save you the trouble of buying a complete 4x16GB set and try to sell your 4x8GB at a loss. SketchUp runs on a single core only, thus favors higher clock speeds. Rendering apps will make good use of the more RAM and better graphics card.

If anyone is still following this, here's mine out of interest. I'm only here as periodically like to see where things are at in way of speed - I'm working a model at the moment with loads of 3D vegetation components and it's seriously chugging along. I've also wondered about the effectiveness of PC v Mac in Sketchup - i've got friends with PC who never seem to complain about it. [image: VtRL_ScreenShot2019-06-09at10.53.05am.jpg] [image: vccp_ScreenShot2019-06-09at10.48.40am.jpg] [image: RcsY_ScreenShot2019-06-09at10.55.39am.jpg]

Thanks for the link!