I do alot of plop renders for placement and use my imagination in wireframe mode. The only time I render is over night, or before I go to work and then look at the render when I come home. Since most of the tweaking is minor, I use the ESC key to bring back my last render in order to estimate position. But I do very few renders, and they usually take 2-15 hours. Longest render was 49 hours. But I think there was something up with my machine on that one.

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