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nigeljohnson73
Thu, Jan 29, 2015 2:11 PM

Hi there,

The OpenSCAD progress bar does not have a xxx/1000 on a mac like it does on
windows. It would be nice if it did, in fact is there a way to provide some
form of feedback. I recently waited 56 hours for a model not to render, the
progress bar was stuck about 30% of the way along. In other instances it
gets most of the way along and stops. I'm guessing it is running up and down
some trees somewhere, but it would be nice if there was a status window
progress could actually be reported into, or the progress bar scaled
accordingly.

It much know how many tasks and sub-tasks need doing, and I'd be gutted if I
was 8 seconds away from the 56 hour render just completing.

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Hi there, The OpenSCAD progress bar does not have a xxx/1000 on a mac like it does on windows. It would be nice if it did, in fact is there a way to provide some form of feedback. I recently waited 56 hours for a model not to render, the progress bar was stuck about 30% of the way along. In other instances it gets most of the way along and stops. I'm guessing it is running up and down some trees somewhere, but it would be nice if there was a status window progress could actually be reported into, or the progress bar scaled accordingly. It much know how many tasks and sub-tasks need doing, and I'd be gutted if I was 8 seconds away from the 56 hour render just completing. -- View this message in context: http://forum.openscad.org/Progress-bar-feedback-tp11298.html Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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adrian
Thu, Jan 29, 2015 3:59 PM

Yeah, I've not done large renders, but I've notice that it is worse in the
new RC than in the last.

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Yeah, I've not done large renders, but I've notice that it is worse in the new RC than in the last. A -- View this message in context: http://forum.openscad.org/Progress-bar-feedback-tp11298p11300.html Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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Marius Kintel
Thu, Jan 29, 2015 4:20 PM

This is a known issue:
https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/810

It’s hard to properly fix as we use a library which keeps us in the dark for a long time.
56 hours is a bit brutal - optimizing this is high on the wishlist too..

-Marius

This is a known issue: https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/810 It’s hard to properly fix as we use a library which keeps us in the dark for a long time. 56 hours is a bit brutal - optimizing this is high on the wishlist too.. -Marius
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Bananapeel
Thu, Jan 29, 2015 7:29 PM

Do you think the low performance is intrinsic to this type of problem, or is
a problem with the library?

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Marius Kintel
Thu, Jan 29, 2015 7:32 PM

On Jan 29, 2015, at 14:29 PM, Bananapeel lunatica.xiaoyu@gmail.com wrote:

Do you think the low performance is intrinsic to this type of problem, or is
a problem with the library?

I’m pretty sure that the library (CGAL) doesn’t optimize this problem properly.

-Marius

On Jan 29, 2015, at 14:29 PM, Bananapeel <lunatica.xiaoyu@gmail.com> wrote: > Do you think the low performance is intrinsic to this type of problem, or is > a problem with the library? > I’m pretty sure that the library (CGAL) doesn’t optimize this problem properly. -Marius