Very slow object creation

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I am absolute beginner with Houdini and this is hopefully trivial question. After starting Houdini (out of the box settings and default project) I am trying to add a plane and sphere. When adding these primitives it takes about 40 seconds. In status line I can see it is doing lots of commands (evaluating Python, running Hscripts…). I would expect this part to be fast and simple. This is not about rendering, just adding objects to scene.

I am running Apprentice version 15.5.673 on laptop with 32GB RAM, GForce 8800M with 6 GB video memory, plenty of disk space.

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Moin,

this is definitely not how it should behave. 15.5.673 Apprentice/Indie works smoothly on my system here, creating default geometry takes about 1/4 second.

Maybe there is something odd with your Python installation (you did not mention what system you are running), maybe something is filling up your syslog … there are just way too many parameters to guess what might go wrong, so maybe you could post some more details about how/where you are using Houdini … and if you should be on Windows, try creating a new user and install Houdini there, my wife is capable of garbaging up her windows accounts so that *everything* crawls to a halt and the only response she ever gives when asked “whatyado” is “nuffing!”.

Marc
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Thanks for prompt reply Marc. This is working better now, just like you have described. I don't know what was going on but it was unusable. I wish I knew what happened because I didn't do anything in particular (excluding system updates and system restart).

Thanks again.
Zorko
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