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Andy · 16th December 2019, 02:29 PM

That sounds very slow. My old laptop handles it fine. Ensure your graphics drivers are up-to-date.

There's a lot you can do, of course the render speed depends on your graphics card and processor. Depending on your graphics card, you may find it faster if you switch off textures (press 't'). Also, if you press the eye icon (top right of each view window), that will switch off all the editing lines, saving quite a bit of render time.

You can also switch 2D/3D views to interactive-wireframe (main menus) which will switch to wireframe when manipulating.

Also, you can hide or lock different parts of a large scene (bottom right expanding section of left control panel). This is very handy when "walking" around a large scene (i.e. walk-mode in a 3D view) e.g. a large airport model.

The biggest speed saving is probably to to switch to a single view (press space to max/min current). that saves rendering 4 views at once.

16th December 2019, 02:29 PM	#8
Andy Administrator Professional user Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 4,565	Re: Worth getting AC3D? That sounds very slow. My old laptop handles it fine. Ensure your graphics drivers are up-to-date. There's a lot you can do, of course the render speed depends on your graphics card and processor. Depending on your graphics card, you may find it faster if you switch off textures (press 't'). Also, if you press the eye icon (top right of each view window), that will switch off all the editing lines, saving quite a bit of render time. You can also switch 2D/3D views to interactive-wireframe (main menus) which will switch to wireframe when manipulating. Also, you can hide or lock different parts of a large scene (bottom right expanding section of left control panel). This is very handy when "walking" around a large scene (i.e. walk-mode in a 3D view) e.g. a large airport model. The biggest speed saving is probably to to switch to a single view (press space to max/min current). that saves rendering 4 views at once.