How to SPEED UP Your SketchUp Models in 2021 - 5 Easy Tips!

In this video, we talk about 5 easy ways to make any SketchUp model faster!

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0:00 - Introduction
0:15 - Model Credit
0:23 - Learn SketchUp with the SketchUp Essentials Course
0:42 - Turn off profiles in styles
1:33 - Turning off shadows
2:26 - Minimize the outliner
3:26 - Purge Unused items in your model
4:03 - Put heavy objects on tags and turn them off
5:00 - More SketchUp Performance tips

[Thesketchupessentials]

Hi everyone! Let me know your SketchUp speed tips in the comments below!

[Johnny-xjqu]

After buying a $3600 MacBook Pro, with the top processor, and 32GB RAM, I thought I’d be able to throw anything Sketchup related at it with no lag, and boy was I wrong. One file I made just lags like crazy. Can’t wait to try these tips

[shelliek]

This has made my life so much easier, Thank you so much, it worked.

[MinhBosh]

I think another way to speed up high detailed Models or components is to hide or put their lines into 00_abc(tag's name) then toggle it off. I usually do this so i will stil be able to keep the appearance of those components while improving the performance. After that, I'm gonna put the adjusted component to my library for later use without doing that again.
By the way, your video is very helpful! I did watch every tutorials!
Thank you very much!!!

[Kidzatrocity]

Very useful tips, Thanks for sharing this Bro...

[Moskeeto]

This is why Sketchup needs to be updated with multicore support and gpu acceleration. My larger models start to really bog down and these tips can only go so far.

[titanvisualization]

Great tip as well you can lower your texture quality as adding textures can really start increasing your file size.

[creamofbotulismsoup]

I just decided to try the 2023 version but it was incredibly laggy with one of larger projects, like 4 FPS and really high CPU usage compared to the older versions I have. Turns out that Fredo Ghost was the culprit, for whatever reason it's not playing nice with the 2023 version(not sure about 2021 or 2022). Just removed it from the tool bar and it stopped lagging. I copied my plugins from one install to the other before I bothered using it, took me a little while to figure out that it was an extension causing the issue.

[TheHornoxx]

Very good and simple tips - Thanks!
In your hints-series could be added to activate the simpler shadermode style instead of the texturedmode while working. If you then assign these settings to a scene, you have almost done everything right ;-)
As long as I'm creating a new model, I always run 2 "start working scenes": My modeling scene I call "Worx", which contains roughly your recommended settings, and the second one I simply call "All", which shows the scene in roughly the later on intended high depth quality.
Additionally, my own model template already has scene transitions disabled. Especially with large and complex models the scene transitions can be so annoying...

[codywilliamson]

Would anyone know why only a few tools are acting slow… like for instance my tape measure and move tools are super laggy, but I can orbit and move around my model just fine?

[fadilvi]

Well theres thing like open n saving skp file slow down too..skp 2023 seem fix it, btw why not using xref system instead all in one file...

[wirasaputra]

any tips for when u close up but the camera like cutting the things in front of you??
sometime happen, a lot more than not

[kiritjeffraejeffrae]

When my sketchup reach its size at 100mb.. it slows down, why is that?

[kewl]

ctrl + a > delete. it will make ur app works really fast. (hehehehehee)