digitalcarbon Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 (edited) maybe someone can enlighten me as to why Hidden Line Rendering in Onshape only took 3 seconds (yes, seconds not 3 min) but in VW it took 20 min? (shown below) (hidden line render is between the top view and front view) while i would not ever show hidden lines in the front view below because there is no purpose...i just thought it interesting that the same part in Onshape (cloud based) converted to hidden lines in 3 seconds... Edited November 4, 2017 by digitalcarbon Quote Link to comment
digitalcarbon Posted November 4, 2017 Author Share Posted November 4, 2017 So IF VW cloud is going to have this kind of speed improvements then sign me up...but if not, then you are wasting your time.. Quote Link to comment
digitalcarbon Posted November 4, 2017 Author Share Posted November 4, 2017 my system this whole topic of what hardware or OS i have is another waste of time for everyone Quote Link to comment
digitalcarbon Posted November 4, 2017 Author Share Posted November 4, 2017 and it took 7 seconds to do Hidden Line Render (w/ Onshape) on an old computer running Chrome (can VW2018 even run on this?) Quote Link to comment
digitalcarbon Posted November 4, 2017 Author Share Posted November 4, 2017 So basically all my models are trapped in my computer...i cannot share them in VIEW only mode nor can i make drawing sheets (in a timely fashion) Quote Link to comment
Member Chih-Pin Posted November 4, 2017 Member Share Posted November 4, 2017 (edited) There are two kinds of "hidden line" renderings in VW, "normal" hidden line and "fast" hidden line. If you hit "hidden line" rendering, it will give you "normal" hidden line, which goes through calculations line by line, face by face, test the distance between the camera and the actual lines. This produce "real line segments" that will give us many benefits, e.g. sketch rendering, highlight the lines behind objects in different representations, decide whether it needs to show highlight lines or not, and ready to export vector-based drawings. For the "fast" hidden line, you can find them in "Section/Elevation in-Place" editing mode. We are basically using an OpenGL trick to create similar effects. You will find some differences in between these two hidden line modes. This is fast, interactive, and real-time rendering almost without any wait. I guess OnShape uses this technique to render hidden line using WebGL in your browser instead of getting the actual "lines" from the server. You can read some more discussions in this thread - In my opinion, there are rooms for performance improvements in the "normal" hidden line mode in VW. For instance, we can show the "fast" hidden line first, and gradually pull the results from the normal hidden line to the view. I'm not sure how soon this can be done, but I'm sure there are some re-engineering tasks to do prior to it Edited November 4, 2017 by Chih-Pin Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Chih-Pin said: For the "fast" hidden line, you can find them in "Section/Elevation in-Place" editing mode. Ah, there they are ... I remember JimW posting a little video many months ago but I didn't see any speed improvements (in standard views) Edited November 4, 2017 by zoomer Quote Link to comment
bc Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 (edited) So where can this editing mode be found? Maybe this is 2018 only? Edited November 4, 2017 by bc Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 Yes, both are new VW 2018 features. Quote Link to comment
bc Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 OK thanks. I am having trouble locating it in 2018. Where is it in 2018? Or how is it preferenced or set up? Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 (edited) If you have a section viewport you can right click to open the new direct edit mode. And like construction Layer view render modes at top right, my Sections were set to (standard) HL, but it was realtime, if I rotate my geometry in such an edit mode. That is really cool ..... Edited November 4, 2017 by zoomer 1 Quote Link to comment
halfcoupler Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 (edited) Just tried to check this out... Can't find it... choosing Section In-Place only leads to the Section In-Place window.... Cant find any redering options... Edited November 4, 2017 by halfcouple Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 It is just the standard "Render Mode" dropdown in the most upper Icon Bar on the right. That (same name) Hidden Line Mode for "Section in Place Editing" is much faster than the standard construction Layer HL Mode. 1 Quote Link to comment
digitalcarbon Posted November 4, 2017 Author Share Posted November 4, 2017 i cannot find...i'm in a drawing sheet just so you know Quote Link to comment
digitalcarbon Posted November 4, 2017 Author Share Posted November 4, 2017 cannot find Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 The Teapot at the upper right. (I always choose the longer dropdown version where you can read the current mode) I am not sure if it works in a DLVP too, but it should at least in a SLVP. Quote Link to comment
digitalcarbon Posted November 4, 2017 Author Share Posted November 4, 2017 (edited) its grayed out Im in a sheet Edited November 4, 2017 by digitalcarbon Quote Link to comment
digitalcarbon Posted November 4, 2017 Author Share Posted November 4, 2017 i don't see it anywhere Quote Link to comment
SamIWas Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 If you're in a sheet layer, then you need to select the render option in the Object Info Palette. As for the original topic, I've never understood why hidden line takes so freakin' long. Read above about it doing full calculations, but find it crazy that there hasn't been a simple line render before. Quote Link to comment
digitalcarbon Posted November 4, 2017 Author Share Posted November 4, 2017 in a sheet layer and i do not see any "fast" hidden line render.... Quote Link to comment
Andy Broomell Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 I'm pretty sure the "fast" OpenGL hidden line render option only exists de facto when you're in "Elevation In Place" editing mode. I don't believe it exists in any other fashion or as a selectable render mode (though it would be great if it were). Quote Link to comment
digitalcarbon Posted November 4, 2017 Author Share Posted November 4, 2017 so i cannot use it on sheet layers? Quote Link to comment
digitalcarbon Posted November 4, 2017 Author Share Posted November 4, 2017 this is what I'm trying to do in VW with the same part note how fast the Hidden Line Render is will make a video setting up in VW (i can tell you right now its not going to take 5min) now to be fair please see next image 1 Quote Link to comment
digitalcarbon Posted November 4, 2017 Author Share Posted November 4, 2017 to be fair...you are not going to get the image below in Onshape no matter how hard you try...so VW has a LOT of custom tweaking what i want to know is IF VW goes to the cloud will it be faster and more stable or no? it takes me a lot of time to make the image below...lots of updating vp, going in and out of annotation mode then IF the client says "i don't like all the color...just make it black and white" then i am sunk because it takes a tremendous abound of render time to do Hidden Line or Dashed Hidden Line so at the bottom i made it Dashed Hidden Line (took 2 min) to find out that it really did not work and i need to spend time investigating why Why did the probe disappear? Why did the compost pile disappear? Quote Link to comment
RussU Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Have you tried changing the global setting? tools. Options. 3d go to 3d conversion res and set it to low. see how you get along. Quote Link to comment
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