Draped hardscape areas very slow update

[Amoreira]

I’m working on a small to medium-sized site. I have two draped hardscape areas, and each time I need to update them due to site model changes, Vectorworks freezes.

My site model is quite detailed with lots of site modifiers, but I'm using a MacBook Pro with an M4 Pro chip and 48 GB of RAM, so I wouldn’t expect hardware to be the issue.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Any tips to mitigate or work around it?

Thanks!

[Gran Mathias]

On 4/15/2025 at 12:04 AM, Amoreira said:

I’m working on a small to medium-sized site. I have two draped hardscape areas, and each time I need to update them due to site model changes, Vectorworks freezes.

My site model is quite detailed with lots of site modifiers, but I'm using a MacBook Pro with an M4 Pro chip and 48 GB of RAM, so I wouldn’t expect hardware to be the issue.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Any tips to mitigate or work around it?

Thanks!

I have experienced that if "cut" is turned on for the hardscapes, it can take a lot longer to update, also make sure you dont have any gradelimits inside eachother or overlapping. 
if the hardscapes have a lot of curves, make sure the simplification tolerance is applied with something other than 0 as this creates a lot of triangulations

also might add, if you have some gradelimit outside of the site model crop, it will cause issues