Yeah the main problem is 3D generation. A marqueed area, 4x1m with a door, roof, couple of slabs, takes a good 30 seconds to generate in 3d.
But when you rebuild the entire building after doing that (with no mesh) it's almost instant, and remains instant when putting a marquee around different sections and rebuilding. Then after changing a few things on the model it goes back to slow town, I really don't understand.
It's like the first time it generates it's generating the entire model (regardless of what you have selected), is that how the background processing works? I thought it was more that the window (or tab) will keep itself up to date with changes you make elsewhere so when you go back to that tab it's almost instant (although that never seems to be the case for me).
AC 24 5004 AUS
iMac OSX (10.13.6) 4.2ghz i7
8gb ram/8gb vram