Rhino crashes when I try to render/use raytraced (mac)

Rendering
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I just switched from Rhino 6 to Rhino 7 and I am experiencing a lot of problems; Rhino crashes all the time and when I try to use raytraced or render I get the spinning ball and it says the application is not responding. I did not experience any of that with Rhino 6, does someone know what I should do? Using a 2017 Macbook Pro (MacOS Catalina, 3,1 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5, 8GB memory). Thank you very much.

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Have you sent in crash reports to us when after a crash the crash reporting dialog pops up? Filled out your e-mail address so we can look it up?

I assume you have already updated to Rhino 7.1. If you haven’t yet, please do.

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Thank you for the quick reply. My Rhino is up to date (7 7.1 is what it says). It doesn’t completely crash, I get the spinning ball and I always have to force quit it and at the force quit menu it says that the application is “not responding”. Even then, I get a pop-up thing from Rhino which says a crash report will be ready in a few minutes, but I never actually get it and I don’t know where to find it.

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Does this spinning ball happen even if you do only the following:

  • Start Rhino
  • New empty document
  • Add a Box
  • Switch one viewport to Raytraced
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No, all of these work fine. I think something is wrong with the file; I tried SelBadObjects but there none, so I am not sure where the issue is coming from. The file is too big to attach here, so I am sending a link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1msyPqMGvXX0mJv1lzIsxdHU_jQ92qDfE/view?usp=sharing

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Thanks, I’ve just requested access from my mcneel address.

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While I wait for access and FWIW, most of the desk scene in the PBR feature page I did on my Mac using Raytraced much of the time:

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Can you try using this link instead? I can’t find where I can accept people and this one should work if you have the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1msyPqMGvXX0mJv1lzIsxdHU_jQ92qDfE/view?usp=sharing

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Thanks, that link worked

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On both my Catalina MBP and my Big Sur MBP the file opens and agrees to switch to Raytraced. The Big Sur machine is one similar to your MBP. I do see the beach ball for a short moment, but eventually the Raytraced viewport is running.

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Hi again, I just upgraded my os to Big Sur and it worked; it’s rendering normally. Thank you very much for the support!