Update:
Yes, I have used Sweethome3d successfully in the past and I haven't given up on it yet. I am fishing about now for a replacement video card for the Dell Dimension. I also considered that perhaps I was stretching the program a bit too much as far as complexity of the SW3d file was concerned. My Enterprise build in intirety now stands at over 60 mgb. So, I decided on a 3 pronged approach. First, I made a back up copy of the file. Then I went in and removed ALL of the custom furniture and the lights. Then with just the floor, ceiling and bulkheads, I will finished the deck. That will ultimately be saved as a seperate file. Then, I will begin filling it up with the furniture. Every room, every corridor, until it is fully decorated. But I will not attempt to render anything from that. Then I will save that as Enterprise Full or something like that. Then I will delete everything except the sickbay and the immediate surrounding corridor. With what's left, I will place lights and render. I will also export as an Obj file to see what I can do with it in Blender. Save that as Sickbay.sh3d. Do the same for the Transporter room, crew cabins, breifing rooms, main engineering etc. I'll end up with about a dozen or so seperate files, but should be able to render more efficiently. I just won't be able to render anymore overhead God's Eye views of the entire deck 7 build. I've already got started and noticed an immediate improvement in rendering time. I spit out a 1600x900 pic on the laptop at the highest settings in about 14 hours. That beat 5 days.
