Rendering wait times unusually long

[makermarc]

Hi, 

Over the last 2 or 3 weeks, rendering wait times have shown as >2 hours.    Historically it has been <20 minutes.  

Has something changed?

Thanks for your support.

Marc

[JacobDSimpson]

Hi Makermarc,

It could be the complexity of your model or families you have loaded in to your project. Are there a lot of artificial lights in your model? That is often a cause for my renders running slowly in the past. Maybe try to purge your revit model to remove any unused items, or you could turn off lights in areas that won't be seen. 

If your uploading to the cloud I don't think your internet speed affects the rate at which your render is finished, apart from how long it takes to upload to the cloud. Once in the cloud, it just depends how busy the service is being used and the size and quality level of your image. 

Hope some of this may be of some use. 

All the best, 

Jacob