SImulation performance: Fast mode unusably wrong and standard unusably slow
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well, graphics performance in general is a huge issue for me in Fusion when working even with pretty simple parts. In this example i want to preview some operations on a single part, it's come to the point where working in fusion becomes a bit tedious, so many repetitions (like having to switch on stock view and toolpath preview setting EVERY time) but in general the graphics framerate when simulating is unacceptably slow. As you can see in Fast mode it's completely unusable, sometimes it's working for a single operation but when previewing multiple operations most of the times it's just garbage display like here. When the operations are fully simulated in STandard mode the framerate is so slow that it takes about 15seconds to rotate the view.
I don't think my system is at fault here since i'm getting stellar graphics/3d performance in many other applications (Rhino, Grasshopper, Houdini, Zbrush, Touchdesigner) and can play all latest games in 2560 in max quality without dropping under 30FPS. The card is a reasonably recent Palit NVIDIA GTX 960 with 4GB of VRAM, the processor is an i7-2600k, i have 16 GB of RAM a super fast startup SSD and pretty fast data drives. In other 3D applications it's extremely rare that my redraw becomes sluggish and i really have to throw shedloads of geometry at the card for this to happen.
So i'm really surprised of the abysmal performance of the simulation in Fusion. Is this just me, something in my settings or my system ? Is everyone else getting no problems with this ?
PS: i have a double boot Mac10.10/WIndows7 on this machine and both have this problem, i have tried all the (few) different graphics driver options in the prefs but this does not solve it.
sorry for the long screencast at some point i let it simulate in standard mode which takes a while, but you can see from this how time consuming and problematic working like this is. I'm just trying to preview my operations in the process of optimising my operations. I'm even starting making coffee in between sessions when the simulation runs .. it's the 90's all over again, i thought we were past this with modern GPUs, loads of RAM, mutlithreading and whatnot ...
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