Archicad 3d view cycle/flips through for every new Enscape view or settings update

Enscape Issues
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Hi all,

I’m experiencing a frustrating issue that seems common when using Enscape with Archicad and would appreciate any insights or again try to make some admin/support more aware of this problem.

Every time I create a new view, or save a new Visual Settings preset from the visual Settings menu, Enscape starts cycling through multiple archicad 3D views automatically. This causes significant loading time and interrupts the workflow—especially in large, detailed models. It is extremely unstable. It seems like Enscape is trying to refresh or reapply settings for each view?

All general live settings are obviously off:

-Geometry export is off

-Synchronize views is off

-Live updates are off

-Archicad and Enscape are updated

Any help or workaround would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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I have the same problem. Is there anything we can do? It is truly impossible to work like this.

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Same here. I notice your comments were posted 5 months ago. Is there anyone in the support team that can shed some light on this issue? Greatly appreciated.

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I think I just solved it. This was happening on Mac and PC. What was in common was the project.
The project had too many views saved. It seems that was the trigger. It was so bad that the 3D view in Archicad and Enscape changed every 2 o 3 seconds. Even closing Enscape didn’t work.
I erased all saved views and started from scratch. It’s working flawlessly

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I also had the same issue recently. A large group of architects lost hours of work waiting for this freeze, until we deleted all the views.

It would be very much appreciated if someone from Enscape could fix this issue.

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The problem for this is the favorite views inside Enscape, that red heart on the view management. Every time you edit a view to Favorites, it goes to the top group and it loads them once you change for another view. No need to delete all the views, just unfavorite them and it works!

cheers

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So… today…(10/6/2026) it is still happening in 4.20.0.886… It is NOT because of HEARTED / FAVORITES from ENSCAPE itself as I have NONE…

It IS cycling through all of the 3d saved views from ARCHICADS view map… The setup sheet before saving the EXE clearly says I’ve chosen 1/110 views, yet it cylces through ALL 110 before starting to save the exe… This is about 20 to 30 min of lag…

It used to be that you could just save an EXE… without it ever asking anything about VIEWS…(I’m thinking that’s only the last one or two releases since the total overhaul of the SAVE EXE dialog)… Now, I cannot save an EXE without checking at least one view… which in turn, sends me down the spin cycle of ALL VIEWS.

Most views are set up for NON-ENSCAPE reasons and I can’t just DELETE THEM…

Please fix this!

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@DGD-Duane Thank you, sorry to hear that.

Based on your message I just performed two tests:

  1. AC 29 with Enscape 4.20 - no favs - sample project from Graphisoft
    I only selected the “current” view for the export but it led to Enscape including all views in the EXE and a full cycle through all views during the standalone exe export as you described.

  2. AC 29 with Enscape 4.21 - no favs - same sample project from Graphisoft
    I selected one specific view that had been set up before. Enscape did not cycle through all views and create the Standalone EXE with only that one view that I had selected.

I therefore recommend that you update to the most current respective version of Enscape and Archicad, select only one view and test the export again.

Please keep me updated about your experience with this workflow after the updates.

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Perfect… Just tried it myself.. .and seems to work the way I would expect it to…

The NEW dialog also includes an option to use the CURRENT VIEW without all the SAVED VIEWS…

And just to be clear, I had set up NO FAVORITES in ENSCAPE itself… All of these were SAVED VIEWS in archicad that enscape picks up automatically.

But seems to all be working!

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@DGD-Duane That´s great to hear that we were able to find an implementation of the new feature window that fits your expectations.

Thanks for the message, this way we can find out that we were able to streamline and optimize user workflow and make our product more effective for our users.

Thanks for confirming that this works for you now.