I made a new render file (mesh file), from my NURBS-model. Added materials, groundplane etc. It crashed almost every time I tried to switch to “raytraced.” Sometimes it was crashing when changing material for an object - and finally I couldn’t even open it anymore. It crashes every time I try.
I sent the crash report to McNeel. When I tried to send the file a got a ‘server error.’ I have to try again later…
I had a new occasion with Rhino emptying a file today. This time it wasn’t related to rendering or materials. I have been working on a new model for some days. As always I export it as a V5 file before I close the (V6) file. When I opened the V6 file after a break it was empty. I’m not able to repeat it (seemed to be completely random). It has (so far) happened only once with this file.
I then opened my backup-V5-file and made that my new V6 file. I’ll send this file to McNeel.
Needless to say that this a bit scary… Latest WIP (6.15.19071.17016).
When you export to v5 do you also first manually save the v6 document?
How did you close the v6 document? Using the document titlebar icon? Or the File > Close menu? Or the shortcut key? Or just closing Rhino by its menu item? Or its shortcut key?
edit: too early sent, I had more questions:
what are the options you export to v5 with? save small? save textures? save geometry only? save plug-in data?
do you save the file to some location that gets automatically synced to The Cloud? Or is it an external storage? Or a networked drive?
No. First exporting as V5 and then closing the V6 file.
Cmd + Q
Save small, save textures, save plugin data.
No, I don’t use (i)Cloud - or any other ‘cloud.’
Nope. Saving to the same folder on the machines hard drive as the V6 file.
No, never. Rhino (still) crashes with multiple documents open when navigating in either file - and both documents are very slow to navigate in. I can only have one document open if I don’t want crashes - and I don’t I only have two documents open when I want to copy-paste something from some file to the one I’m working in (and I always close the ‘extra’ file immediately after that).
With navigating I mean zooming and/or panning in the file - and then pressing and holding the “home” button (pressing the home button is what causes the sluggishness - and crashes).
A file with changes is always saved in the background whenever you have a pause (for about 20 seconds IIRC) - and when I close the file with Cmd + Q the save dialog always pops up: revert changes, cancel or save. I, of course, always select save, so the file is saved all right.
@Philip from your files it looks like you use Box Edit (probably a lot). While testing if this could impact saving of the file (Box Edit adds document user strings) I ran into a performance problem:
That sounds very strange as I really don’t use Box Edit at all! The only “box” thing I have used is Box Mapping (for the ‘boxy’ objects in those files).
Well no, not really - not using Box Edit… The only thing regarding performance problems are slow navigating in a file (and crashes), when I have two (or more) files open: Rhino V6 slows down with two or more files open This was one of the things I showed Andy (IIRC). This have been a big problem for months. As I mentioned it’s impossible to have more than one file open at the same time:
This is not, however, related to the empty files problem, is it…