Minimal video card needed?

[Richard6360]

I use fusion360, tinkercad and some other 3d programs.

How can i make Layerling act less laggy ? it looks like things are brake slowly when i stop turning them.

16gig memory i7 processor on a 2gig videocard (3 screens attached)

[henmedia]

@Richard6360, what you describe is most likely not lag: the camera has a little inertia built in - after you let go, it keeps turning for a moment and slows down, like a spinning wheel. Fusion 360 and Tinkercad stop at once, so it feels different.

The next version gets two switches for this under Settings → Appearance:

• Camera keeps turning - switch it off, and the view stops the moment you let go.
• Fast mode - for slower computers: turns off shadows, edge lines and the camera's inertia together, and draws the view at screen resolution only. Your own settings are kept for when you turn it off again.

The guide also gets a new section, "When layerling feels slow". Until then, two things help if it is really choppy while you turn:

• Turn off Show shadows in the settings.
• Check that Chrome or Edge uses your graphics card: open chrome://gpu (or edge://gpu) and look for "Hardware accelerated" next to WebGL. With three screens, Windows sometimes runs the browser on the processor's graphics; under Settings → System → Display → Graphics you can set the browser to "High performance".

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[RobbieKnobbie]

Layerling is running very smoothly for me. I'm using an 8 gig RTX Pro Blackwell laptop GPU. CPU is Core ultra 7 255HX so, pretty middle of the road hardware wise.

I have neither Edge nor Chrome installed, I'm using Brave. Not sure if that's relevant, but Stefan brought up browser usage on the GPU.

[Richard6360]

i use brave as wel

[henmedia]

@Richard6360, both switches are in 1.50.0: Settings → Appearance → Camera keeps turning (off = the view stops at once) and Fast mode, plus a guide section "When layerling feels slow". @RobbieKnobbie, good to hear it runs smoothly - Brave is Chromium underneath, so brave://gpu shows the same as chrome://gpu.

[henmedia]

Thanks, @mobiusfix - that helps a lot. Hose adapters, a square fan to a round duct, a stand: that is exactly the "one outline to another" case. @Richard6360, good news: Loft is what I'm building next - one outline at the bottom, another at the top, joined by a smooth wall. I'll post here when it's ready to try.

[henmedia]

@Richard6360 @mobiusfix, Loft is out in 1.54.0. It's a new shape called Loft, in the shape list right before Tube:

• Pick an outline for the bottom and one for the top - circle/ellipse, rectangle (with a corner radius) or polygon - and set the size of each end and the height.
• Top offset moves the top end sideways for a slanted transition; the bottom stays where it is.
• Wall thickness turns it into a tube open at both ends, so a hose adapter or a square fan onto a round duct is a single shape. At 0 it's a solid body, e.g. for a stand.

It's an exact body, so its edges can be chamfered and filleted, and STEP export keeps it. Add a flange with screw holes as usual and group them. The guide has a short section on it: Loft.

Let me know how it works for your adapters!

[prmod3d]

Wow, wow, WOW! Never thought I'd ever see a Loft feature in a Tinkercad-level design app. Layerling is truly rising above all the expectations I had when I went searching for a Tinkercad alternative/replacement a short week ago!

Am constantly amazed at what Stefan is able to integrate into this app... so I wonder if it's possible to enhance the Loft feature by post-rotation (or pre-determining) of the top and bottom faces in order to create a curved and/or angled loft section mating the two?

Pushing the envelope even further, is dual face rotation possible (on the X and Y axis) to enable the creation of some truly amazing results only available in premium CAD packages?

[RobbieKnobbie]

Am constantly amazed at what Stefan is able to integrate into this app...

Yeah, his turnaround for new features is insane. I'm beginning to think he's an AI bot humoring us lowly humans with his MaD HaxOr sKiLlZ

[henmedia]

No, I'm surely a real human, but using paid AI. This is the only way I can keep up the pace. But even with AI, it takes a lot of time to orchestrate everything. And quite some money to keep the AI running.

Keep in mind that GitHub is not the single point of discussions and wishes I have to monitor. So beside this, there are emails, forums, etc. I'm monitoring ...

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