Rendering scene crash VW and my Imac

[Kaare Baekgaard]

I am trying to render a scene with a somewhat heavy geometry. Something makes it crash – and not only VW but my Imac. It freezes and I have to restart.

 

I have tried to remove elements from the scene, to purge objects and to reduce the complexity of some textures, but it stil crashes.

 

I use 2018 SP1 to avoid the OIP bug, that I got more frequently with SP2.

 

Any chance, you can take a look at the file?

[Art V]

If you have VW2016 still at your disposal, did you try rendering with VW2016? I have a fairly heavy model that renders within minutes in VW2016 and in VW2018 it is still below 30% after half an hour.

If you want I could give it a try, but I am on Windows so if the issue that causes the crash happens to be Mac specific then it may not be of much help.

[Kaare Baekgaard]

On 13/1/2018 at 7:29 PM, Art V said:

If you have VW2016 still at your disposal, did you try rendering with VW2016? I have a fairly heavy model that renders within minutes in VW2016 and in VW2018 it is still below 30% after half an hour.

If you want I could give it a try, but I am on Windows so if the issue that causes the crash happens to be Mac specific then it may not be of much help.

 

Thanks, Art V – I will try to get someone at VW to look at it first – there may be a confidentiality issue, if I ask you to do it.

[Kaare Baekgaard]

Not much response from VW employees...

 

Just as well, I found the culprit myself.

 

It was an image prop, where I had flipped the content of the image and the mask the from within the VectorWorks texture dialogue.

 

I am surprised, that this could crash not just the app, but the entire computer.

 

So don't do that.

[PVA - Admin]

7 hours ago, Kaare Baekgaard said:

Thanks, Art V – I will try to get someone at VW to look at it first – there may be a confidentiality issue, if I ask you to do it.

 

Just now, Kaare Baekgaard said:

Not much response from VW employees...

 

Apologies I didn't see this, was there no response from technical support?

[nikihoops]

I'm having issues too with my elevations, they are hidden line so not heavy rendered but they seem to be causing my VWs and Mac to freeze! Or sometimes crashing t! 

I was having issues with the same file being really slow too, its only 51MB so small in comparison to others.

 

Anyone abatable to take a look at the file? Please bear in mind its likely to crash your computer! 

[PVA - Admin]

27 minutes ago, nikihoops said:

I'm having issues too with my elevations, they are hidden line so not heavy rendered but they seem to be causing my VWs and Mac to freeze! Or sometimes crashing t! 

I was having issues with the same file being really slow too, its only 51MB so small in comparison to others.

 

Anyone abatable to take a look at the file? Please bear in mind its likely to crash your computer! 

Sure thing, post here or send it to me in a message.

[nikihoops]

Thank you JimW, I shall send you a message.