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Is it possible to pause a rendering and then restart it so that my computer can be used for other things? I want to do a detailed rendering, but with a wife and 4 kids, it's hard to find the time to make it happen! lol Thanks in advance, you've all been very helpful.
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Cant be done within revit. Best thing is to let it run overnight if your looking for a high quality image.
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Thanks afc4. Is the same true for 3D Max?
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Pause a render in Max and reboot? dont think so. In Max you can render certain regions of a camera then compile them in photoshop or similar program.
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I don't mean rebooting the computer. I was just wondering if there is a way to pause the render and then use the computer for other things, like checking emails and such, and then resume the render again.
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Still no... You could still do other things while rendering other than work within revit. You may want to look into getting dual screens even a small one that way it would allow you to move the revit to one screen and still have a clean screen open to work with. And obviously the last thing that would affect time and performance is the type of computer that you are using.
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you can go into your task manager and set the affinity of the program to only use 3 processors (if you are on a quad-core) and that will free up a processor for other PC apps. It will increase your render time on the down side.
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That's a great idea. Thanks!
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