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December 10, 2024
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3D Rendering tries to render in Outline mode.

  • December 10, 2024
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Even with a M4 silicon Macbook Pro, rendering in real-time can be slow. In my Settings, GPU performance is enabled, and I have ray-tracing turned off. My example is editing 3D text and is painstakingly slow because it tries to render each time a character is typed and shows the rendering dialog each time as well. In attempt to get around this issue,  I tried editing the text in 'Outline mode' but AI still shows the render dialog with each change to the text. Also, I lowered the document's raster effects setting  to 72dpi. However I really thought 'Outline mode' would solve this issue but apparently not. Is there any way to disable the rendering dialog or to speed up editing 3D text?

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Monika Gause
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Community Expert
December 10, 2024

How much RAM is installed?

How complex is the artwork?

nmycpsAuthor
Inspiring
December 10, 2024

I have 48gb installed. The text I'm working with has a pattern fill , an envelope distort, and a drop shadow applied, in addition to a 'Inflate' effect using the 3D tools. In 3D tools, I didn't tweak any parameters for the 'Inflate' effect and it doesn't have but a default texture applied to it. 

I tried recreating the text again with identical properties as above and now I'm able to edit the text almost normal speed. Maybe I had an unknown effect(s) causing the problem. But starting over the seemed to have worked.

Monika Gause
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Community Expert
December 10, 2024

Get rid of that pattern. Does it get better then?