Quote - > Quote - Wow, how long did that take you to render?  Matmatic creates the file just fine for me.

But my machine chokes at everything but the very first Basic Coil when I try to render
it.  And I have a 2.8 GHz Pentium with 1 GByte of memory, so that should be
powerful enough.
What are your render settings, can you post a screen shot of them?

That's strange!
My machine is anything but top class (1.5GHz Athlon  / 768M RAM), the settings (posted) aren't special at all and this renders in 30 seconds.
The "cables" are actually the size of bagginsbill's columns (300% scale, 800% y scale) so I guess the displacements are rather large.
I had thought that maybe it was because I had been working in Centimeters and not Poser units - but that didn't change anything.
When I increase the Displacement Bounds in the Render up to 10, still takes less than a minute.

I noticed you have Min Displacement Bounds at 0.000.  I always thought it had to be
given a number to get displacement?  I had mine set at 1.000, but I'll try it at 0.000.
Also I noticed you have Smooth Polygons off, so that might have been another one
of my problems.  But you do have Cast Shaows on.  I had that one turned off to
try to speed up the render.  I guess it didn't take as much resources as I thought.