Help/Advice needed in LPub3D

[Cjd223]

Okay, here is it as simply as possible: I am currently working on exporting a very, very large manual (some of you may know what I am referring to) and well, LPub3D is taking a super long time.

The model consists of over 5,700 pieces and contains over 1400 pages. LPub3D takes around 2 minutes-5 minutes per page and I am just at the first 25 pages. I am rendering a large page soze in order to fit the full model (I think it's like 70 inches by 48 inches. I know that conputer hardware is not the issue (Quadro M4000 card, i7-4790K processor, 32GB RAM) so it has to be software.

Basically am I killing LPub3D? I am rendering with jpeg images right now. I would try a pdf but the page size always gets distorted when I do that (at least with previous models). I do have a 2 level deep submodel, not sure if that is doing anything.

Does anyone have any advice for me to try and speed this process up, it would be nice to export my current manual in less than like a week (the current estimated pace by myself). Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

[legolijntje]

LPub(3D) was always known to be not super fast (when using LDview as a renderer), but 2 to 5 minutes per page is... a lot. Let alone a week for the full set (although, 5700 pieces on 1400 pages is also a lot ).

Take a look at this. If everything goes well, the next version of LPub3D will have up to 75% speed improvements when using LDview as a renderer.

It'll still take a long time though. I mean, it has to render thousands of images for all the steps, substeps, parts etc. etc.

Also, the page size shouldn't really have an impact on the speed. But, the DPI can. What DPI are you using?

[Cjd223]

LPub(3D) was always known to be not super fast (when using LDview as a renderer), but 2 to 5 minutes per page is... a lot. Let alone a week for the full set (although, 5700 pieces on 1400 pages is also a lot ).

Take a look at this. If everything goes well, the next version of LPub3D will have up to 75% speed improvements when using LDview as a renderer.

It'll still take a long time though. I mean, it has to render thousands of images for all the steps, substeps, parts etc. etc.

Also, the page size shouldn't really have an impact on the speed. But, the DPI can. What DPI are you using?

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