Perhaps have a good go with D5 free and see if it suits you. If the vegetation is important then TM is probably not ideal - at the moment. It does have quixel megascans though.

you might need to update fredo library files via the sketchucation extensionstore plugin

Which Macbook Pro do you have? If it's one of the older models you will be able to mirror & replace the drive, which would be the ideal scenario.

Here's a bit of info:

Can You Upgrade the Hard Drive or SSD In Your Mac?

Macs have a reputation for being hard to upgrade or repair, but that isn't always true.

How-To Geek (www.howtogeek.com)

Excellent Pixero!

Bad news about the work though - hope you've still got thea/SU licenses?!

ThomThom's Camera tools has a shortcut to the camera parameters panel [SU menu->Camera->Advanced]

SketchUp Plugins | PluginStore | SketchUcation

SketchUp Plugin and Extension Store by SketchUcation provides free downloads of hundreds of SketchUp extensions and plugins

(sketchucation.com)

I've had the same response via a different channel to the OP.

The distributor's line was 'Sketchup is moving to a Subscription model...Perpetual licenses will become legacy'. The time frame is unknown but probably within the next 12 months.

@mike amos said:

Looking good so far but interested in pdf tuts. Not found any so far.

Yeah i haven't noticed much and the support seems a bit limited.

There is a youtube channel though which may be worth checking out?

A little bit of background here...

Page not found - AEC Magazine

AEC Magazine (aecmag.com)

I got errors at startup too. I disabled it for now as i don't use it very often.

+1 for a Blender sub forum

Chipp's done a great job with his tut's but i'd appreciate seeing more discussions regarding SU <-> Blender - 2.8 will no doubt draw more attention from SU users too.