Just purging the model & letting SketchUP fix issues in the model can solve crashes issues (Window>model info>statistics) & purge in Vray: 'purge unused assets' (the little broom) in the lower right of the asset editor. It's really a no-brainer.Īlso, rendering times can be affected by many factors & there are best practices all over YouTube about how to get significantly faster rendering times with Vray + SketchUP, so if the 2019 MacBook Pro is sluggish, it shouldn't be that bad, so I'd say the model may just need some attention, or settings adjusted. I'm super happy I tried it & wish I did it a long time ago! Now there's no worry about long render times, or having to buy another $4k laptop for that matter! Credits are $1 ea and I think it only cost me 2 or 3 (of my free credits) to have them render something for me that took them 11 min, but my machine would have taken 2-3 hours & in the mean time, I kept on working.

They render your scenes for you while you continue to work. You get 20 free credits for trying it out, so there's nothing to lose. I use both for rendering in Vray / SketchUP & the iMac is a little faster at rendering than the 4 year old MacBook Pro, and had some recent issues rendering with the laptop, so I was also just considering that I might need to upgrade the laptop soon, but then I tried out Chaos Cloud rendering and it changed my world. I also have a 2016 MacBook Pro (upgraded specs, etc.16 GB RAM).

I recently bought a new iMac (with the upgraded specs + upgraded Ram to 64 GB with aftermarket RAM).

But, don't waste your $ on a new machine. I am an architect working with the same software, on a Mac, so I totally comprehend where you're coming from.

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