Maya quad draw tool is working really slow

Sunray

Hey I love mayas quad draw tool to retop inside of maya but the pproblem is that it's just really slow for me my live surface only has around 50k tris. But every time i try to create a quad or smooth quads it takes so long any one know how to fix this? I tried deleting history but it doesn't really fix the problem.

jRocket

Which version of Maya? 2017 Update 3 just changed some of the quad draw stuff. Also, make sure you're using viewport 2.0

oglu

using a GPU cache alembic does also help...

throttlekitty

Turn off history while doing quad draw, this makes each edit "real" so you don't end up with a long pointless history.

Sunray

Thanks guys

@jRocket I'm on the first update ill try to update it. 
@oglu is that a setting in preferences?
@throttlekitty yea might be better than deleting history every 2 minutes.
 

oglu

you have to export the highres as GPU file...
and import it back...

Cache --> GPU Cache --> export

Sunray

oglu said:

you have to export the highres as GPU file...
and import it back...

Cache --> GPU Cache --> export

Thanks dude.