Surface count

[vincent kunasek]

I have a plan that I had sent out to be workrd on when I got it back the surface counts even on a interior shot is over 500,000. No idea what caused it. The plan is 25.6 megs .Anybody willing to take a look at it I'm not sure how to post it when it's that big

[moak]

you can use dropbox to post large plans

[vincent kunasek]

you can use dropbox to post large plans

I have drop box not sure how to let someone new get to it.

[Tim O'Donnell]

I have drop box not sure how to let someone new get to it.

How to use the Dropbox Public folder....

The Public Folder lets you easily share single files in your Dropbox. Any file in you put in this folder gets its own Internet link so that you can share it with others-- even non-Dropbox users! These links work even if your computer’s turned off.


Step 1:Drop a file into the Public folder.

Step 2: Right-click/control-click this file, then choose Dropbox > Copy Public Link. This copies the Internet link to your file so that you can paste it somewhere else.


That's it! You can now share this file with others: just paste the link you into e-mails, instant message conversations, blogs, etc

If you'd like more help with sharing files, head here: http://www.getdropbox.com/help/16


Happy Dropboxing!
- The Dropbox Team


Note: You can only link to actual files within your Public Folder, not to folders.

[vincent kunasek]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58682782/sur...RESIDENCE.plan

[sutcac]

Well, I went digging all around in that file and still couldn't find the culprit. You do have a LOT of high face count stuff in there, especially the 3D plants but I deleted all the plants, the terrain, the millwork, fixtures, cabinets, stairs, roof planes and anything else I could think of that might be causing the high face count.

The file size just isn't that big. I have plenty of files double that size that generate fine.

I would send this in to tech support and see if they can't look under the hood.

[lbuttery]

Vincent:

clone the plan and delete half the plan using the edit area - all floors tool

check the counts

repeat sub-dividing until you isolate the problem object(s)

this may not work if the objects are scattered thru the plan

Lew

[moak]

Vince - it's easy. See image below.

[moak]

Vince, I found the face count was 619,276 in a 1st floor overview, 295,972 after I turned the cabinet layers off, 289,710 after I turned the stair layer off. The funny thing is when I turned on only the cabinet layers and the face count was 83,531.?
Not a solution, but some interesting data.

[Joe Carrick]

Vince,

The video card has a big role to play in render views. I believe that the NVidea gtx560 series with 3GB of on-board memory are the state of the art right now. How much memory do your video cards have? That could be critical.

[vincent kunasek]

Vince,

The video card has a big role to play in render views. I believe that the NVidea gtx560 series with 3GB of on-board memory are the state of the art right now. How much memory do your video cards have? That could be critical.

I have no idea see the attachment

[vincent kunasek]

here is the other system Ihaven't tried the file on that one yet

[Joe Carrick]

Your first card is a 580 with only 2GB and the second card is a 560 with 4GB. My bet is that the second system will perform so much better that you will not want to use the first one for Chief at all. The 560 is just that much better and with double the memory it's going to perform even faster.

[Dermot Dempsey]

Card performance issues aside, it looks like your plan is getting a lot of the surfaces from the window and door casings. Using a repeating 3D symbol for the bricks looks like it is adding about 4000-5000 surfaces for each window and door.

[sutcac]

I was never patient enough to let the camera view finish rendering. I guess I just figured you had a problem child in there somewhere. Sounds more like just a large accumulation of a lot of things in a rather large plan.

I run a GTX590 dual GPU's with 4GB of Video RAM and if I have to wait more than a few seconds on a 25MB file, I figure something is drastically wrong.