Watch this step-by-step guide to see how Sarah and other designers get SketchUp Pro up and running on their Mac systems:
: Instead of modeling every chair, she pulled high-quality assets from the 3D Warehouse , scaling them to fit her space perfectly. Sketchup+pro+mac
For Sarah, a freelance interior designer in London, the jump to on her MacBook Air was the turning point for her business. Like many designers, she started with the free web version to "sketch" ideas, but she soon hit a wall: her clients needed more than just pretty 3D pictures; they needed actual construction plans. Watch this step-by-step guide to see how Sarah
: She was thrilled to find that V-Ray for SketchUp ran natively on Apple Silicon, giving her high-end renderings without the Windows-only CUDA lag. The Cost of Growth : She was thrilled to find that V-Ray
: She turned off fog and shadows during the heavy modeling phase to save her CPU and GPU for actual design work.
Sarah was worried her wouldn't keep up, but she found it ran "like a charm". To keep things fast when projects got heavy, she learned a few pro-Mac tips: