# How to speed up work

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/how-to-speed-up-work/36966>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [March 11, 2025, 10:29am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/how-to-speed-up-work/36966 "2025-03-11T10:29:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nykvist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c4cdca/32.png) [@Nykvist](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Nykvist)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 10:29am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/how-to-speed-up-work/36966/1 "2025-03-11T10:29:30Z")

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Hello, I am a Building engineer student that really like shaper 3d for 3d printing and small object, now I have start using it for planing houses and do detailed construction plans on a house. it work pretty good in the beginning but now, when I have almost finished, the workflow is really slow, all moment take long time and it take a lot of time to open the project. ( around 2400pieces in the project) my computer is a MacBook Pro M1 Pro, 16gb 16", is that the problem? or is there a solution to make the object/ project easier to handel for the computer / shaper3d?

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**Author:** ![SCALEMODEL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@SCALEMODEL](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/SCALEMODEL)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/how-to-speed-up-work/36966/2 "2025-03-11T13:15:23Z")

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I would duplicate the project and do a merge history to see if that speed things up.

If that doesn’t help export the house as a common format like STEP or Parasolid and import as a new project.

If the project is still too big I would consider dividing the house and working on just individual room, floor etc…

I have the cheapest M1 Mac with 8gig of ram and can accomplish most of my architectural projects by do it the method I mentioned.