Hi,
I've been a long time Mac user. I'm still using 2nd gen iMac specially for sketchup modelling full time.
No problem in modelling. For rendering I'm use Thea, V-ray Next all work 100 percent.

Time has been moving fast ,with the new real time rendering applications around. My iMac can't handle those
high computing applications.
You should thing about this and if you are going into realtime in the future i.e
new v-ray realtime, Twinmotion to Unreal Engine or D5 etc.

For me I bought a Window laptop GPU of course just for Realtime rendering proposes.
and do my 3d modelling-small scene rendering projects in iMac 27" .

Anyway I hope that helps in your decision.Cheers

This is good! Thank you

Have you try universal importer plugin?

Nice illustration and style! Good alternative.
Sorry to hear, things will be better soon.

Nice thing with Twinmotion is you can do all your modeling in sketchup then to Twinmotion.
The most exciting thing is you can combine other 3D Format assets FBX , OBJ,RHINO etc within your scene.
No more converting meshes!!!! Buy ready textured assets from 3rd party and Twinmotion will take care of it.

Thanks for your input Nlipovac
Yes, VRAM Is 16GB I think that is a plus for rendering.
My alternative choice is MSI WE75 RTX3000 32GB about $1800 cheaper, but I don’t have any idea about MSI.
So far Razer is the best choice and similar to MacBook design.
Thanks again.

Hello Sketchuppers,

Looking to up grade my mac for a new window laptop computer.
I am wondering if anybody is using Razer Blade 15 Studio Edition using Sketchup?
I was looking for a Nvidia RTX 30 SERIES but at the moment very limited brand available.

This studio edition is using NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000, it is a bit pricey but justified.
I will be using 100% sketchup for Modelling then either Thea,Vray,Enscape, Twinmotion or Lumion Plugins
for rendering and animations.

I am sure that this card is capable Quadro for my needs, but not sure how Sketchup will behave?
I normally get a gaming cards not sure about this.

Any advice will be great full. Cheers and keep safe.

Sky is too dark as Majid mentioned. Try using dome light And play around intensity if it too bight .
For exterior I think vray Camera shutter speed is set to 300 as default,You can lower this down.
Just remember if you are doing interior scene shutter should be around 50 then adjust to suit.

Too much youtube tutorials for vray Skp. Most of them are really good but complex setup and sometimes take long to render.
Start at youtube Chaos group you will fine good tutorials and you can download a simple house scene here:

And try to study The setting used or reverse learning.
Good luck!

Have you try flowify plugin?

Thank you so much!

As far as I know sketchup work best in Nvidia cards.
New MacBook Pro STOP using Nvidia cards. I’ve been a Mac user for years and i am really disappointed about this.
My next upgrade will be window platform moving forward to the future of computing!
WHY? First I cannot use high end VR in Mac, Secondly real-time rendering Lumion windows only no Mac,
Also I am an Enscape and Vray user. So for me I will move platform to use Nvidia cards.
Cheers

PMOLSON: I got access to Lumion 8.5, just wondering your 13Hrs Animation render?
Is that how long does it take to render a house? reason why i am asking is
I want to upgrade to 9 because of the new features.
Also i am using Enscape 2.4 a large shopping mall complex fly through in and out the park.
4K animation will only take less than an hour. Thanks Cheers

Hello fellow sketchuppers,
I know most of this can be done using available plugin in sketchup from our ruby guru’s.
I also know that we have a plungin call “Working Plane” , but used it once I need to revisit this.
Anyway while browsing I encountered this app call Sharp3D which was nice to watch having a coffee and
learning how he use the tools. So watch the vid!

Sharp3d working plane are great similar to MODO concept, do we have it in sketchup???
It will be a good idea to implement working plane at all views at 0 origin.
Idea similar to sketchup section plane align @ 0 origin.

Also do we have rotation plane with # of degrees at specific pivot point similar to
sharp3d (see vid chair support segment). I think that was a great idea too!

One more Sharp3D has a tool called “Shell” that was great tool as well.

I don’t write scripts and I think this can be easily done by our genius ruby writers here.
For a fee/free will be nice.
If ruby plugins are available please post the link here.

Sharp3D vid:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Er1Ma_pMYzg

Thank guy’s

Try Adjusting Render>Raytrace>noise limit to 0.001 might help.

Hello,
Just started to learn V-ray at last! Anyway just wondering how do I save a Render Preset/Custom Preset folder in 3.4?
I've been looking around and most of the info are from an older Version and different UI than 3.4 i.e
http://help.chaosgroup.com/vray/help/sketchup/150PB/tutorials_preset.htm#part1
Any help much appreciated, thanks in advance.

That is right both of them are good Renderer, Thea for fast production for me.
I just started Vray and getting good results in rendering. both of them running on my
MacBookpro. good thing is Laubwerk Plugin works bothways.

Just touching V-ray, what I've read that sketchup interface is set 1600x900(aspect ration of 2.01:1) whereas Vray default is 800x600(Aspect ratio 1.333:1).
Use closer to 2.01:1 Something like 853x480,1280x720,1920x1080
Anyway I have not gone to that point yet, just starting Vray .

Ref book: photographic rendering with v-ray for sketchup by Brian Bradley page 48

Hi Rich, Will we see Mac OS as well? Just downloaded but for Windows only.
Any news on this?
Cheers

How do you uninstall ? Sorry new to modo I try systems but can't find your config/
plugin folder. Using 801 in mac it works but need to revert to default .
Thanks for your help

Thank you Baz! Why did they do that? I was getting crazy for awhile:)
Thanks again.