Is there a way to speed up "Detail view"

[freedman]

It takes about a half hour to set up a Detail view. Every time I move the focus a recompute kicks off. My recomputes seem to be taking a lot longer as I add pages. I tried turning off auto update but then I can't see what I want but I presume when I finish a page, turn off update. Any pointers on making this go faster, ways to deal with the future when I have 10 pages.

Thank you

[wandererfan]

It takes about a half hour to set up a Detail view. Every time I move the focus a recompute kicks off. My recomputes seem to be taking a lot longer as I add pages. I tried turning off auto update but then I can't see what I want but I presume when I finish a page, turn off update. Any pointers on making this go faster, ways to deal with the future when I have 10 pages.

I've never noticed Detail to be particularly slow vs other types of View. If you can, please post you file and I'll have a look.

TD is slow for some shapes. Usually it is the Hidden Line Removal algos in OCC. OCC announced at one point that they were working on implementing parallel processing for HLR, but I haven't heard of any progress since. That would help a lot.

We could really use something like a painter's algorithm for rendering, but AFAIK it doesn't exist in OCC.

[freedman]

Here is the threaded part.

Create view, from button press to view; 55 sec.
Create detail, from button press to view; 32 sec.
Move anchor from 0 to .1, from button press to view; 40 sec.

File open with page; 55 sec.
File open without page; 2 sec.

[wandererfan]

Here is the threaded part.

Create view, from button press to view; 55 sec.
Create detail, from button press to view; 32 sec.
Move anchor from 0 to .1, from button press to view; 40 sec.

File open with page; 55 sec.
File open without page; 2 sec.

It isn't the Detail view that is slowing things down;
original file - 43.8 sec to load
Log: TIMING - Detail GO spent: 513.222 millisecs in HLRBRep_Algo & co
Log: TIMING - Detail GO spent: 6.280 millisecs in hlrToShape and BuildCurves
Log: TIMING - Detail DVP spent: 11.487 millisecs in GO::extractGeometry
Log: TIMING - ProjItem GO spent: 17155.471 millisecs in HLRBRep_Algo & co
Log: TIMING - ProjItem GO spent: 7.116 millisecs in hlrToShape and BuildCurves
Log: TIMING - ProjItem DVP spent: 27.349 millisecs in GO::extractGeometry

no detail - 38.4 to load
Log: TIMING - ProjItem GO spent: 17860.170 millisecs in HLRBRep_Algo & co
Log: TIMING - ProjItem GO spent: 9.524 millisecs in hlrToShape and BuildCurves
Log: TIMING - ProjItem DVP spent: 28.903 millisecs in GO::extractGeometry

The HLR routines are taking approx 17-18 second to process "ProjItem" (Front) and it gets computed twice.

If I use a regular View instead of a ProjectionGroup, View is only executed once, so the load is faster.
no detail, using View - 22 to load
Log: TIMING - View GO spent: 18054.734 millisecs in HLRBRep_Algo & co
Log: TIMING - View GO spent: 9.812 millisecs in hlrToShape and BuildCurves
Log: TIMING - View DVP spent: 30.207 millisecs in GO::extractGeometry

So the lesson 1 here seems to be don't use ProjectionGroup when a regular View will do.
Lesson 2 is that we need a new geometry builder for cases where we aren't interested in hidden lines.

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[wandererfan]

Create view, from button press to view; 55 sec.
Create detail, from button press to view; 32 sec.
Move anchor from 0 to .1, from button press to view; 40 sec.

File open with page; 55 sec.
File open without page; 2 sec.

Could you repeat your timing test with the current version, please? It seems somewhat faster here. Want to make sure it's not just wishful thinking.

Thanks.

[freedman]

Not sure about what file I used so I downloaded the file from the post above for the speed test. I have V18.15991 and v18.16085 installed.


V18.15991 .......... v18.16085
Open file:.....55 sec..........53 sec.
delete detail.
Add detail:.....32 sec...........5 sec.
Move detal anchor:.....33 sec...........4 sec.
delete proj. and detail
Create proj:.....54 sec...........26 sec

Big improvements on:
add detail, 32 sec to 5 sec.
Move detail anchor 33sec. to 4 sec., this is great!
Create projection 54 sec. to 26 sec


Nice!
I'll start using that tomorrow morning. It's hard to make a chart in a post, Spaces and Tabs don't hold.
Thanks

[Jee-Bee]

I'll start using that tomorrow morning. It's hard to make a chart in a post, Spaces and Tabs don't hold.
Thanks

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                    V18.1599    v18.16085
Open file:          55 sec.     53 sec.
delete detail.
Add detail:         32 sec.     5 sec.
Move detail anchor: 33 sec.     4 sec. 
delete proj. and detail
Create proj:        54 sec.     26 sec

[wandererfan]

Big improvements on:
add detail, 32 sec to 5 sec.
Move detail anchor 33sec. to 4 sec., this is great!
Create projection 54 sec. to 26 sec

Awesome. Glad it wasn't just wishful thinking.

[chrisb]

Wow! And Thank you!