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[Mário Luzeiro <mrluzeiro@xxxxx>]

Hi Andy,

This most probably sounds to me as "it is working as expected".
Raytracing rendering method is consider to be an "offline rendering" (means, it will take a lot and you can go offline for a coffee and back after a while)

However for simple scenes I am not expecting such a long time.
Depending on the options I may expect just a few seconds for some scenes.

My guesses, for developers to investigate are:
- Make sure KiCad on MacOS is build with OpenMP enabled and it is working. This is very important to make rendering to work in parallel.
- Since Macs have that "Retina" thing.. could that be the screen resolution is actually 4x (? I dont know how it works..) what it is displaying (comparing to a regular display)?

Mario Luzeiro
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From: Kicad-developers <kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro=ua.pt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 27 February 2018 23:21
To: KiCad Developers
Subject: [Kicad-developers] 3D Viewer "Render current view using Raytracing"    is ludicrously slow

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:
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    Boost: 1.61.0
    Curl: 7.43.0
    Compiler: Clang 7.3.0 with C++ ABI 1002

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    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