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

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(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.

Skimp looks awesome but so does Transmutr. Really looking forward to see how they both turn out.

I hope Skimp proxies can work with Thea, please?!

Advanced Camera Tools too... [26 November]

There's a similar thread on the SUForum with some input from the SUTeam

Sketchup Pro Future?

As I am basing our company on a Sketchup Pro workflow, I am worried about its future and I would like to know if I am the only one with these concerns. Concerns: November passed and still no new version of sketchup, e…

SketchUp Community (forums.sketchup.com)

SU2019 in...2019

Surely it'll have to be SU2020 to be current?

For Obj/Fbx I import to Blender and export as DAE.

The 3DS version should import into SU though?

Sandro

You'd struggle even with a top spec machine with with all the vegetation visible because there's so many faces ~1.9million.

Try to isolate the detailed elements so they are only visible when required or even better replace them with low poly components or 2D face me components from 3dwarehouse.

You can get nice 2D trees from Evermotion [Free] https://evermotion.org/shop/cat/423/free_products

For info Digital Construction Week Exhibition is on in London 17/18 October.

At a glance it doesn't offer anything directly for SU but there's a Visualisaton Theatre for AR/VR and Lumion & Enscape are exhibiting. It's free to visit too.

https://www.digitalconstructionweek.com/Homepage

Maybe it was these textures; I noticed them posted somewhere around here recently...?

https://richardyot.com/tiling-texture-pack

Wow, thank you Fredo!

Some nice grasses at evermotion... but you're likely to want skatter for those too

https://evermotion.org/shop/show_product/archmodels-vol-126/9607