How to Stop rendering?

[Anonymous]

How do you stop a rendering in progress? Say you start a rendering and after the fist five minutes you look at it and realize it is not going to work. Now the program could be occupied for the next hour or two until the rendering finishes. I have been using control/alt/delete to shut down and restart the program. This always makes me nervous that I will loose work. Is there another way?

[Anonymous]

Have you tried simply hitting the ESC key?

That does it for me.

Although, I'll admit that it's not obvious.

[Anonymous]

There's a small cross beside the progress slider. If you click on that a few times it's supposed to stop...eventually.

[Libbya]

I recently posted a very similar Wish List thread titled "Stop Button". Wouldn't that be great? An "end task" that didn't kill the whole program, but left you right where you were before it started doing what it has now bee doing for eternity....

With regard to the "ESC" button... LOL!!

Andrew

[Anonymous]

I cannot even get the cursor close to that little cross once render is running. Once I leave the toolbars and venture onto the drawing I get an hourglass.

Also. This assumes you are using the render window. If you are doing a cropped render you cannot use the render window and thus the small cross does not exist.

if you made a bad decision on the render settings you are penalized by being forced to wait the duration of the rendering process (sometimes on a small test 1 hour or more) to reset the properties

[aebicalho · Accepted solution]

Hitting ESC or pressing the (X) button in the Dashboard will cancel render.
Of course, if you move focus away from AutoCAD into another app you'll have to move focus back into AutoCAD and wait a bit, but it should still cancel it.

-Alexander

[Anonymous]

hahahaha... sorry but ESC will not stop anything. There is no known way to stop a render on a Mac.

Maya has 3 serious failures that have 15 years and Autodesk does not fix them:

1. cannot stop a render.

2. no mouse middle buttons on Macs with magic mouse.

3. the panels change views on a mac without warning... you are working on the front view, and suddenly that view changes to top.

[David_W_Koch]

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@Anonymous wrote:

hahahaha... sorry but ESC will not stop anything. There is no known way to stop a render on a Mac.

Maya has 3 serious failures that have 15 years and Autodesk does not fix them:

1. cannot stop a render.

2. no mouse middle buttons on Macs with magic mouse.

3. the panels change views on a mac without warning... you are working on the front view, and suddenly that view changes to top.

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Back in November of 2007, pressing ESC would have stopped a rendering in AutoCAD Architecture 2008 or Architectural Desktop 2007 (or earlier).  AutoCAD Architecture/Architectural Desktop (the subject software of this forum) does not run natively on a Mac, so none of the listed concerns would apply here.  Perhaps the Maya Shading, Lighting and Rendering Forum would be a better place to make note of these deficiencies.

[paul]

The problem still stands.  I'm doing a rendering in 2023 on a PC right this moment and it won't stop.  I have to end the task.  Seems like the person you were responding to was expanding on ACAD product rendering in general.