That's ingenious beets my duct tape and coat hanger thingy. Can you post a link to the video?

When the script was first written for SU ver 6 it installed in tools folder but with SU ver 8 you need to place in
Macintosh HD/Library/ApplicationSupport/Google Sketchup 8/Sketchup/Plugins folder on Mac

Thanks Csaba, here's the link I intended to post.

http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2012/03/product-connect-makes-it-easier-to.html

Found this today and thought I would share It's like having a fast track to the 3D Warehouse and if you spent time looking for good models this a great resource just browsing threw and found some formica textures and haven't even scratched the surface yet.

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Same goes here to the all above, Wish you well.

Try this you will need some plugins like Solo said you can get 30 day trial of artisan.

Welcome to the forums.

This place SCF is by far the best place to get help when you need it.
I learned SU from a woodworker named Joe Zey at http://www.srww.com/blog/?p=1335 . Great videos

Also go to Fine Woodworking Blog Design Click Build one of the contributors DaveR is a regular here.

I tried a trial ver. of V-Ray on Mac Pro 1st gen. with NVida 8800GT and 10 gigs of ram with no problems but it was not a very high poly model to begin with I use Kerkythea all the time with no problems. I wonder why SU crashes on your MacBook?

Nice one and welcome to Sketchucation.

You could still use 3d trees and either hide them on a separate layer so as you are working in your model the PC doesn't have to constantly redraw them and unhide the when you need to or try plugin Ghostcomp a really good plugin for lots of high poly components.

Make a simple 2d tree or download from warehouse and make it a face me component very low poly, move, copy that same instance will yield smaller file size.

pretty sweat

That was one drawback to using SU on Mac took a while to get use to

I've been using SU on Lion for a while now and have no problems. My suggestion would be to open SU (a new file) and do some modeling to determine if it's SU or the file.

@Jeff I got the NVIDA 8800GT it works great thanks for your recommendation, the old card is fine but didn't want things to go bad.

@geewi00 that's a pretty sweet machine don't give up on it yet.

I was a little disappointed to find that I had no control panel for graphics card on Mac when I started using it I did on XP and I think the enhancements actually came from NVIDA drivers so prevalent for Windows but not so for Mac I've searched my computer, NVIDA website still came up empty handed only way to update driver is if Apple updates.

Screen shot of System Pref equivalent of Control Panel Win

There are no settings for the graphics cards inside the OSX least there aren't on mine with NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB. So I would suggest opening up SU new file go to Preferences and on OpenGL make sure Hardware Acceleration is checked and check Fast Feedback, could be when you installed SU on your new MAC they weren't on by default. just a thought hope it helps.

Thanks Richard you the man.

Using layers to hide or show components and groups works really well. Also ghost comp plugin http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=21469
makes thnigs like tress or other high poly components low poly for the time and switch back to high poly with one click.

Been having a HELL of a time with that crease tool till I saw this.

Thanks Eric

So what does creasing edges or quads do for it I don't see much difference when doing it that way.

Thanks Csaba