[JesperW]

The Geometry Extraction that happends when you press "Render Scene" is quite speedy compared to other products that interface with SolidWorks. But it still takes a significant amount of time.

When you're playing around with material parameters and just let the render run for a couple of minutes each time to see the effect of a parameter change, this becomes significant.

In this scenario the model never changes.

Would it be possible to use the geometry data from last rendering if the model hasn't changed? Or if thats hard, have a manual option to not run a new geometry extraction?

/j

[juan]

Hi Jesper,

I have optimiced the geometry extracion as far as I can. As you said, the only way to make it faster is avoiding the geometry analysis and using the last one wiht new parameters. It can not be done in the plugins yet, but you will see big enhancements in this area very soon.

Juan

[JesperW]

Great. As I said, you've done well in this area. I have another product that takes approx 20 x the time you take on the same model... So you should feel satisfied.