Thank you kindly DaveR and slbaumgartner for the detailed replies, very much appreciated

Regards
Al

Hi,

I support a company who’s designer produces large SketchUp 3D models. Their current 2019 iMac (non-pro) i5 with 32GB of RAM is proving to be inadequate when editing.

The designer has provided me with some screen grabs of a typical model that she works on:

The SketchUp file sizes for those models averages 525 Mb.

She commented “ideally I would have had both of these floors in the same model but have to split”
This leads me to believe she’s simply trying to edit with too many layers / objects enabled (even with the floors split!).

I have received some great advice from other forums & Reddit with regards to limiting the amount of layers / objects that are enabled whilst editing, including using plugins such as FredoGhost.

The designer needs a new Mac regardless (as they have a new designer joining) so they'd like me to spec-up some optimal hardware for the job. Their budget is about £10k (which has to include 2 colour accurate monitors) so I was thinking an iMac Pro + an external monitor.

Considering the kind of models shown above; if you were buying an imac Pro - how would you divide your spend in terms of CPU, RAM & Graphics?

Thanks in advance for any advice & please excuse my ignorance