Layout very slow
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I am using:
iMac 27" Late 2013
3.5 GHz i7
16 gigs of memory
3 gig fusion drive
Nvidia GeForce GTX 780M 4096 MBPlenty of power there.
I am working on a relatively small model in Sketchup, 1.8 million edges and 450K faces, but I have almost all my layers turned off. I am bringing scenes into Layout for construction drawings. The models move quickly in Sketchup, but when I bring them into Layout there is a huge drag when I attempt to do anything. Moving, drawing, zooming in/out.
I have set the display res. to low and output to high. I've tried purging all in Sketchup. No avail.
Please help.
Thanks,
Joel
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Are you sure your GPU is being used in layout?
Can you access some kind of Nvidia settings where you could find which apps are being run on the gpu?
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@Jql Very interesting. I never added layout to Nvidia's gpu program list. I only used SketchUp in the list. Does it really need to be on the list? Any special settings to change in regarding to layout?
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What I know is that I also had a similar issue and that solved it. I have no info on preferred settings.
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@pbacot: if you have an Nvidia gfx card, open the Nvidia control panel (in Windows system settings - no idea where on OSX) and look for the program list. Make sure SketchUp is on the list
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@kaas said:
@pbacot: if you have an Nvidia gfx card, open the Nvidia control panel (in Windows system settings - no idea where on OSX) and look for the program list. Make sure SketchUp is on the list
We're talking Macs here. I looked in System Preferences and searched with the (idiot) Spotlight search, but I don't see anything. My card is NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB
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@pbacot said:
@kaas said:
@pbacot: if you have an Nvidia gfx card, open the Nvidia control panel (in Windows system settings - no idea where on OSX) and look for the program list. Make sure SketchUp is on the list
We're talking Macs here. I looked in System Preferences and searched with the (idiot) Spotlight search, but I don't see anything. My card is NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB
Open LO and get it loaded up with a drawing.
Then go to About this Mac and it will tell you what card it is using...Should automatically switch over.
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I assumed it was using only the one card I have... but I guess this card doesn't have any way to list what programs are in use. Should I get a new graphics card to boost performance of either program?---I had never heard this was possible. In general I have never heard that I could get better performance for SU or LO...by upgrading the computer, except maybe changing to Windows.
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upgrading a mac? Are you sane? I heard it's perfect so no need for hardware changes.
I love imperfection so I use Windows... Linux should be better but no Sketchup.
I can tell you that, with windows, changing from a laptop with an nVidia 425M with 1Gb to a Titan X with 12 Gb, simply changed everything I knew about LO and SU.
I feel it's a different software, and though it has limitations, performance has increased so drastically I cannot conceive how I could cope with it.
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