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MS Surface 3 tablet using Onshape, feedback

frank26080115frank26080115 Member Posts: 19 ✭✭
I have a new 4GB RAM 128GB version of the MS Surface 3 tablet PC. It is currently running Windows 8.1. I am using Onshape through Firefox

It is VERY slow when loading a large assembly, slow enough to cause three JS timeout errors when trying to load https://cad.onshape.com/documents/2c3baf3160ee4ec59702d130/w/e8731c033ea64499991c9f6e , after it is loaded, frame rate during rotation is barely useable.

But it takes no effort to load https://cad.onshape.com/documents/21b525da345e4e62aebd906b/w/42d48f7467564f07abf0c349 , frame rate during rotation is good

Pinch zoom on the drawing area will cause the entire browser to zoom, instead of only the drawing area, I hope this gets fixed somehow


Comments

  • lougallolougallo Member, Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 2,001
    I can see it is a larger model but once it loads seems to perform pretty well.  There are a few things I would like to see in the FF GPU support.  Have you tried Chrome?  Does it work any better?  We have a MS SP3 here and the performance was Ok.  Curious to hear more about it.  If you can post what you see in the GPU info... I would also check to make sure the graphics drivers are up to date as well.  Thanks for posting..

    BTW, GPU data in FF is done by typing:

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    Lou Gallo / PD/UX - Support - Community / Onshape, Inc.
  • frank26080115frank26080115 Member Posts: 19 ✭✭
    edited May 2015
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    In Chrome, loading is slow but no errors, and the progress of loading is visual, as in, things appear one at a time.

    In Chrome, view rotation using the mouse is laggy but framerate is fair

    In Chrome, it is almost impossible to rotate view using just the touchscreen

  • frank26080115frank26080115 Member Posts: 19 ✭✭
    how hard would it be for Onshape to use Gecko to make a "Onshape App" that's actually a web browser minus web browsing? Perhaps this way you can do more optimizations with respect to touch screens?

    I would also accept a Metro app
  • lougallolougallo Member, Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 2,001
    @frank26080115 We can do more with touch screens if we build in the listeners.  We do not have any touch event listeners currently in the webgl frame.  There are many that would like this including me.. a day one Google Pixel user ;-)
    Lou Gallo / PD/UX - Support - Community / Onshape, Inc.
  • frank26080115frank26080115 Member Posts: 19 ✭✭
    oh ok so it's not a limitation, just not implemented, gotcha

    still, a metro app would go great with Win8
  • john_f_carrjohn_f_carr Onshape Employees Posts: 74
    I have a new 4GB RAM 128GB version of the MS Surface 3 tablet PC. It is currently running Windows 8.1. I am using Onshape through Firefox

    It is VERY slow when loading a large assembly, slow enough to cause three JS timeout errors when trying to load https://cad.onshape.com/documents/2c3baf3160ee4ec59702d130/w/e8731c033ea64499991c9f6e , after it is loaded, frame rate during rotation is barely useable.

    But it takes no effort to load https://cad.onshape.com/documents/21b525da345e4e62aebd906b/w/42d48f7467564f07abf0c349 , frame rate during rotation is good

    Pinch zoom on the drawing area will cause the entire browser to zoom, instead of only the drawing area, I hope this gets fixed somehow


    When our browser app notices that rendering is slow it reduces the amount of detail it displays to improve performance.  This can lead to misleading performance measurements if you compare slow initial rendering of one design with faster "experienced" rendering of another.  If you persist in trying to rotate, the experience should improve.

    On the "Copy of Ultimaker 2" document performance improved by about a factor of 4 over the course of less than a minute.  I'm on a 2011 Mac Mini driving 2560x1440 with low end graphics ("Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MD", probably the same class as yours).  Best frame rate is about 13 fps using our internal use animation test.
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