Named CPlanes panel takes a few seconds to open

Rhino
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1

Hi,

Steps

  • open a new Rhino file
  • click on the ‘Named CPlanes’ panel

Current behaviour
A black panel is displayed during several seconds, before the panel to be displayed.
freeze_named_cplanes

System Info

Rhino 7 SR19 2022-5-17 (Rhino 7, 7.19.22137.07001, Git hash:master @ 3ae9a3803ff1583b53c0ef27b6860e06ef2d363a)
License type: Commercial, build 2022-05-17
License details: LAN Zoo Network Node

Windows 10 (10.0.19044 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 32Gb)

Computer platform: DESKTOP 

Standard graphics configuration.
  Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA Quadro P2000 (NVidia) Memory: 5GB, Driver date: 2-10-2022 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 511.79
    > Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
        - Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #0
        - Secondary monitor attached to adapter port #1

OpenGL Settings
  Safe mode: Off
  Use accelerated hardware modes: On
  Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
  Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU's maximum)
  
  Anti-alias mode: 4x
  Mip Map Filtering: Linear
  Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High
  
  Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
  Render version: 4.6
  Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
  Driver Date: 2-10-2022
  Driver Version: 30.0.15.1179
  Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
  Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
  Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
  Total Video Memory: 5 GB
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Hello - please post the full contents of the SystemInfo command output. I suspect there is a plug-in getting involved.

-Pascal

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Hi @pascal,

Here the full SystemInfo:

Rhino 7 SR19 2022-5-17 (Rhino 7, 7.19.22137.07001, Git hash:master @ 3ae9a3803ff1583b53c0ef27b6860e06ef2d363a)
License type: Commercial, build 2022-05-17
License details: LAN Zoo Network Node

Windows 10 (10.0.19044 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 32Gb)

Computer platform: DESKTOP 

Standard graphics configuration.
  Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA Quadro P2000 (NVidia) Memory: 5GB, Driver date: 2-10-2022 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 511.79
    > Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
        - Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #0
        - Secondary monitor attached to adapter port #1

OpenGL Settings
  Safe mode: Off
  Use accelerated hardware modes: On
  Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
  Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU's maximum)
  
  Anti-alias mode: 4x
  Mip Map Filtering: Linear
  Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High
  
  Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
  Render version: 4.6
  Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
  Driver Date: 2-10-2022
  Driver Version: 30.0.15.1179
  Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
  Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
  Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
  Total Video Memory: 5 GB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
  C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp	"Commands"	7.19.22137.7001
  C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp	"Renderer Development Kit"	
  C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp	"Rhino Render"	7.19.22137.7001
  C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp	"RDK_EtoUI"	7.19.22137.7001
  C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk_ui.rhp	"Renderer Development Kit UI"	
  C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp	"Snapshots"	
  C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp	"RhinoCycles"	7.19.22137.7001
  C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp	"Toolbars"	7.19.22137.7001
  C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp	"3Dconnexion 3D Mouse"	
  C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp	"Displacement"	
  C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\7.0\SectionTools\2021.4.30.511\SectionTools.rhp	"SectionTools"
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Thanks - here, I get a very fast flash of the black when I make the CPlane panel active, nothing like what you see, though- a split second. From what I can see the last ‘namedXXX’ panel to be opened does this, not just Named CPlanes. I’ll see what I can find out.

@jeffoulet - does the same thing occur if you open with no template file? Is it new behavior with 7.19?

-Pascal

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Hi @pascal,

Could it be somehow related to a bad VPN connection? I had troubles with it last week, and now that it is fixed, the black lag appears to be way shorter than before (1 second or so, as you described on your side).
Do the panel connects somewhere on the Internet/remote network on it’s first run?

does the same thing occur if you open with no template file?

Can you please advise how to do so? Should I put some options in the Rhino shortcut path (like the ‘/nosplash’ one)?
EDIT: got it! ‘/notemplate’ argument does the job :slight_smile:

Is it new behavior with 7.19?

I didn’t notice so severe lags before to be honest

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Ok, even with ‘/notemplate’, there is a small lag when opening the Named CPlanes panel.

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Hi -

I suppose, in an indirect way, yes. If your machine is using a lot of resources to try to resolve some issue on the system, there could be delays in assigning resources to Rhino. But all of that is handled by the OS.
-wim

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So the problem occurs once, and then resolves itself - no noticable delay - once the panel has opened once, is that correct?

What happens if you open Rhino, then let it sit for a minute or two before doing anything …

-Pascal