Optional Hold On Viewport Update?

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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This sounds like a bonkers problem.

Sometimes, mostly with mesh changes (joining, creating…) I encounter scenarios where I have a specific set of operations I know will lock the viewport. Mostly it is creating joint or disjoint meshes.

During this process, I always do the same commands like “mesh“ then “join“, and I don’t want the GPU to have anything to do with it until I have finished what I want to do. Really, I just want to do everything in CPU and memory, until the hold is released on the viewport, and the view is refreshed.

On an additional note, it may be worth considering adding an option to delete input geometry for mesh command, as there are some operations I know won’t be going back to NURBS ot SubD.

I guess it would need some form of very big warning or highlight around the viewports, but is such a thing possible?

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I think if you put all visible viewports in Wireframe mode, the mesh will not update until you put something back in some shaded mode

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Thanks. There is a whole rafte of issues when it comes to large mesh handling by Rhino.

It did seem better in wireframe mode, but I did end up just getting my geometry out of Rhino and into bella, which has far better scene management.

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HI David -

-wim