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[Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx>]

Frankly, everything on MacOS is slow in KiCad from 3D to layout to
schematic, panning and zooming is horrendous.
It's probably been 2 months since I tried anything on MacOS, and there have
been more than a few improvements committed, but I'm not holding my breath.
Especially since schematic isn't using OpenGL and will be re-written for v6.

I'll try to check the nightlies tomorrow to see how well it works on my 5K
display as well as just on the Retina display.

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 3:21 PM, Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is probably way low on the list of priorities …
>
> On a 2017 MacBook Pro (Retina, touch bar, 16 GB RAM, with the Radeon 555
> graphics), the "Render current view using Raytracing" is ludicrously slow,
> as in it takes about a minute to render a “simple” design (front panel
> thing with LEDs and buttons).
>
> I admit that I didn’t know what that blue cube in the 3D viewer’s toolbar
> was for. I guess it’s really a tesseract.
>
> Anyway, it re-draws the display and then when you zoom or pan it reverts
> back to the original rendering (which is quite fast).
>
> -a
>
>
>
> Application: kicad
> Version: (5.0.0-rc2-dev-26-g0d794b2), release build
> Libraries:
>     wxWidgets 3.0.4
>     libcurl/7.54.0 LibreSSL/2.0.20 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.24.0
> Platform: Mac OS X (Darwin 17.4.0 x86_64), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
> Build Info:
>     wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (UTF-8,STL containers,compatible with 2.8)
>     Boost: 1.61.0
>     Curl: 7.43.0
>     Compiler: Clang 7.3.0 with C++ ABI 1002
>
> Build settings:
>     USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=ON
>     USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
>     BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
>     KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
>     KICAD_SPICE=ON
>
>
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Andrey