I am working with a file, 65Mb, that has 6 images I am using for tracing. The beachball is nearly constant. Do tracing images have some beachball effect?
In particular, if I shift to another application to look up data, the beach ball come on for about a minute when I return to Rhino.
How can I address this?
Hi John -
The current SystemInfo from your machine and a 3dm file that is behaving as described on your system are a good start. Bigger files can be uploaded on https://www.rhino3d.com/upload
-wim
Rhino 8 SR31 2026-4-14 (Rhino 8, 8.31.26104.08182, Git hash:master @ 2b632c545519ecab0a6a691f560dfcc31eac2d65)
License type: Commercial, build 2026-04-14
License details: Cloud Zoo
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I uploaded it. I hope you folks got it. This is truly bizare. Switch focus to another application. Come back to rhino and I get 1 minute of beach ball.