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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 10, 2013 at 8:00am

Wouldn't it make more sense to try and find the bottleneck in your computation rather than shopping for a new computer? Have you used the Performance Profiler widget to find which components take the most time?

These people don't seem to be too happy about your processor in any case.

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

Permalink Reply by Nick on October 10, 2013 at 8:53am

I vote for checking into bottlenecks as well.

Depending on the complexity of your paneling definition, I would say yes, it is normal. I've had definitions take numerous hours to go through a few dozens iterations.

Although they might not like your CPU, any of today's CPU's are more than capable of executing GH  definitions without a hitch.

Permalink Reply by bobro on October 11, 2013 at 10:49am

Thankyou...but...what is "Performance Profiler widget"?

...and if CPU is the most important component for  Grasshopper calculation an

Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.20GHz

would give me double speed with iterations?

Permalink Reply by Nick on October 11, 2013 at 11:00am

Display > Canvas Widgets > Profiler

This will display the time each component takes to run.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 11, 2013 at 11:01am

You can enable the profiler widget via the Grasshopper Display menu. It displays underneath each component how long it took to run.

3.20 GHz is not that much faster than 3.07 GHz. It will not give you a significant boost. You need to find out which component is taking up all this time and then maybe it's possible to reduce that. Maybe not, maybe you really need to perform a million boolean operations in which case there's no much you can do.

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

Permalink Reply by bobro on October 11, 2013 at 2:27pm

this is the displlay...

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 11, 2013 at 2:47pm

Ok I'm afraid there's not much to be done there. Morphing geometry is a slow process, though you may be able to speed it up by upping your Rhino document tolerance settings. If you're deforming geometry that is 10 miles across with millimeter accuracy, then you're going to spend a lot of time computing a lot of detail you don't in fact need.

How big is your geometry compared to the Rhino absolute tolerance settings?

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

Permalink Reply by bobro on October 11, 2013 at 3:04pm

I have panelize a  ring (a jewel..around 1 inch... ) with around 400 items

Permalink Reply by bobro on October 15, 2013 at 6:29am

David...!?Guys...?!

Have I understand what you want? In the previous image there is  the geometries and tollerance I work.

I continue waiting time for any iterations in my experiments.

I'm working also with the PanelingTools menu and components

have sense to pay 400-500 dollars for a new

 Intel Core i7-3930K 3,20GHz 12MB?

Thankyou

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 15, 2013 at 8:36am

Hi bobro,

sorry, I'm travelling now so I can't respond too often. I don't think forking out for a new processor is going to make it much faster. Maybe 5~10%, but that's about it.

Looking at the shapes you're after, I think it would be better to look into T-Splines instead. They are very good at making shapes like that.

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Seattle, WA