@DaremoK3: Thanks for good advice. I was beginning to think that it was just me having the slow response problem and that everyone else was experiencing the kind of speed seen in the videos. I'll play with the settings a little more but is there somewhere that I could read what each of them do? What effect they have on the cloth? So far I've just been following the videos or leaving at defaults. I do have a reluctance to go back to testing with primitives - mainly because I will never use them in a scene so I want to learn how to use the sim with clothing that I will be using. But I do understand the point you make.

Also, some of the terminology is completely new to me. What are springs, for example? Or a tessellation algorithm? When we talk about SubD - do we mean the parameters in DAZ Studio or the settings in the VWD panel? When to use animated or static drapes? I assumed that animated was for animations so I used static but I know that many Optitex users advise using animated drapes for everything, including static. I'm not clear on how to do that with VWD.

Here's the point: I was hoping for a way to pose my clothed character in DAZ Studio - send the character and cloth to VWD, drape, and return to DAZ Studio. But it seems it I was being naive in thinking that. For a start, I notice that a new object appears in DAZ Studio so that we have the original garment and a new one specifically for VWD. As I don't have the purchased version I don't know what happens next. Usually, I pose and render, save the updated scene, pose and render, save and so on. I normally make stories with about 30 to 40 scenes that way. Would this be a problem to do with VWD? Especially if animation is needed?