A Favor please..

[biss03]

I've uploaded a file to the FTP site called josh.mc8. This file is typical of the problems i have when trying to shade the surfaces on files of this size (app. 11 mb) with my system. When you open the file, the first thing you will have to do is turn on all levels except the one labeled "do not use". then try shading it and see how long it takes for this to happen. with my system, it takes quite a few minutes (haven't timed it yet but am guessing somewhere around 5 minutes). I'm wondering if this is typical for a file of this size or if something is wrong with my graphics card settings. I'm using a NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4800 graphics card. I've tried changing just about every setting and still get the same results (or worse). I'm using windows 2000 on a pentium 3 system with as much RAM as i can put on the board.

 

can someone please try this out and let me know what you think? I would appreciate it very much!

 

if i forgot any information, slap upside the head and let me know

[kwolf]

I can't download your file now.

But there seems a problem with a surface in that layer.

Unshade and check surfaces.

I think there should be a self intersecting surface or bad surface in that layer.

I use Rhino usually and when such a thing happen the first thing I do is looking for bad geo using "BAD" command. And %99 of time I can fix it with

1- Untrim and a ReTrim again.

2- Rebuild edges of surfaces

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

You can alwais use partial shade :

cHECK IN IN SHADE SETTINGS SLECTED Surfaces and use select by window,level ,color and so on .

Once with more then 80000 surfaces I had this problem ,but not with file of your size .

Change settings for allocations screen->config->allocations and try once more .

[Camdude®]

biss,

i downloaded your part and it shades in an instance. sorry i couldn't be more help.

[MachineSMMC]

It took about a minute to open and shade on my system.

 

AMD AthlonXP 2400+

2.00 GHz

1.00 GB of RAM

 

3DForce4 Ti4200-8X, NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X

 

HTH

[Matthew]

It took about 1 1/2 - 2 minutes on my system.

 

PIII 1 GHZ, 768MB RAM, 32MB Oxygen VX1.

[biss03]

thanks for the tests. it looks like i've got something set wrong on my video card? keep the comments coming!

 

thanks,

 

josh

[kwolf]

Which version of detonator driver are you using?

Besides Anti Virus software may decrease the speed of shading.

[Die Sinker]

It shades in an instant.

 

2.0 ghz

Ti 4400 128 meg

1 gig ram

W2000 Pro

[cadcam]

If you open all te levels then shade it on your box how long does it take with all the levels on?

 

I am will the others it comes fast.

If I have shading on and turn all the levels on so they shade as they come on about 30 sec.

 

once on Alt "S" it is instant on and off.

[biss03]

Jay... this morning i timed it out and it was around 1 1/2 minutes to shade everything after turning all levels on. Can't explain why it was quicker than before but it still seems to be too long. this file is typical of the size files i create but i do have some files that are quite a bit larger (say 2 - 2 1/2 times) and they take forever to shade. needless to say, this gets very annoying having to wait for it to finish and then i can't even do any graphical rotations without it being "choppy" when it moves.