[Rendering speed]

7 minutes ago, michaelk said:

Welcome to the forum.

 

Jim Wilson wrote a few tips on rendering:  

 

 

He also had more tips at the last Design Summit in Phoenix.  I don't know if that talk is available.

 

In general I find that keeping light sources to a minimum helps a lot.  I'm not sure if the size of textures matters, but I also try to not create textures with large images.

 

I also find interior elevations to be slow.  If you're doing hidden line elevations, make sure you don't have the smoothing angle set to 0.  Between 20 and 30 is usually the sweet spot for me.

 

I don't usually use any lighting for that reason... I am just hoping that in the next service pack they pick up the speed .... it's for me one the the most important things. I literally sit in front of my computer waiting for 5+ seconds for every time I make a change and want to check in the Interior Elevations. 5 seconds + might not sound a lot.... but when you do this 100 times a day it feels forever!!

[Rendering speed]

Hi there, I have just purchased a brand new iMac Pro to try and improve the basic rendering speed... unfortunately very little difference to my MacBook Pro laptop that I was running it from. Is anything being done to try and improve these rendering speeds. Even when I use interior elevations viewports and make changes ... to update them seems to take forever. I have been using Vectorworks and InteriorCad for at least 8 years but it just seems to get slower all the time...??? Does anyone else have these problems and have you found a solution??