Slow rendering

[Brian F.]

I've been having problems with renderings taking up to an hour to regenerate. This was not a problem previously but over the last couple of days, the file size jumped from 20-something megs to 50-something after adding in 6 cars and 9 RPC people. I'm even sometimes experiencing a lag of about 2 minutes moving between views like a plan and saved 3D views.

Trees and planting didn't seem to affect rendering time too much but would people and entourage cause that type of problem? I can't imagine adding such a minimal amount of elements being the cause.

The project consists of a school site with 8 or so simple buildings so the model is not very complicated.

Using a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 with 1 GB of RAM. Have set the page file to max. 3072 MB.

Rendering settings are at "good" quality and 150 dpi.

Any help appreciated!
Brian F.

[mjfarrell]

Peek at this: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=3875281&linkID=3770375

[Scott D Davis]

Are you 'capturing the renderings' and saving them in the project browser? This will cause major file bloat, and I assume it will slow things down. Export rendered images and save them in a job folder, rather than within Revit.

[Yman]

I noticed slowdown and huge file increases when I captured images within the project file. I just export them to where I need them.

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