Thank you for your insights. Very helpful. However, there are a few things I'd like to comment on.
I tried LDGLite and the render speed is fabulous. However, the result is different from LDView, not simply in quality, but for some strange reason, in size. See attached images (each with name of render engine used) and you'll see what I mean. I prepared the instructions using LDView, then switched to LDGLite to test render speed and got this surprising result.
I imagine I could set up a low quality render style in LDView to improve render speed in LPub and then change to a higher quality setting for generating the instructions. Still, that might not work. On one occasion I had been working on several instruction files and when I generated instructions one of the pages in the PDF was actually from another file!! What I had done was the following:
- I prepared instructions and created PDF file 1.
- I prepared and also created PDF instructions for file 2.
- I went back to file 1 because I realised there was a mistake on one page and only viewed/changed that page
- I then generated PDF instructions for file a again, but when I opened them one of the pages was from file 2!?!
Since then I make it a point to visualise every page in LPub before generating PDF instructions
Has anyone been able to get LDView to render studs with the LEGO logo?
I tried LDGLite and the render speed is fabulous. However, the result is different from LDView, not simply in quality, but for some strange reason, in size. See attached images (each with name of render engine used) and you'll see what I mean. I prepared the instructions using LDView, then switched to LDGLite to test render speed and got this surprising result.
I imagine I could set up a low quality render style in LDView to improve render speed in LPub and then change to a higher quality setting for generating the instructions. Still, that might not work. On one occasion I had been working on several instruction files and when I generated instructions one of the pages in the PDF was actually from another file!! What I had done was the following:
- I prepared instructions and created PDF file 1.
- I prepared and also created PDF instructions for file 2.
- I went back to file 1 because I realised there was a mistake on one page and only viewed/changed that page
- I then generated PDF instructions for file a again, but when I opened them one of the pages was from file 2!?!
Since then I make it a point to visualise every page in LPub before generating PDF instructions
Has anyone been able to get LDView to render studs with the LEGO logo?