Can I save this model?

[L i am]

Hi all, in a bit of a bind. I intersected a cube with a net, thing is I did not realise what a high poly count the net had along with hundreds of intersections. I am on a deadline and did not save the model. I am now in mt 20th minute of waiting for SU to calculate the intersections, what could possibly go wrong
I have the choice of waiting for the procedure to complete or shut it down. Will it autosave if I shut it down by clicking getting a grey out and then choosing "shut down"?

[Rich O Brien]

If you try close SU while processing it will not save.

SketchUp will become unresponsive and require a forced quit. Losing all unsaved work.

Easier and faster to do this complex boolean in Blender then export to SU as .DAE

[grabuge]

Hello,

When SU takes longer than I expected,and when I did not save (especially for intersections), I open the autosaved version in a new window. I kept the autosave every 5 minutes in preferences, even if it's annoying while working on 100Mb+ files. This way I can work on my model while the first one is still working. (SU only uses one Core, so it shouldn't slow your PC even if it's working)
You'll then get an AutoSave_AutoSave_filename.skp and so on.

Just check the last autosave file's time or even open it in a new window like I do to check what you would lose in case you chose to force quit an hanging SU. Sometimes it's faster to lose 5 min work and find a workaround, SU beeing able to hang for hours !