out of memory

[flexibleautomation]

I can not make a drafting sheet of my assembly. It keeps giving me a "out of memory" pop-up. This assembly has a couple thousand parts. Is there any way to speed up solid edge in the drafting enviroment? I'm running solid Edge V19 19.00.00.66. My computer system is a Dell Percision 470 running Windows XP. 3.20GHz 3.0 GB of RAM
Thanks
Jeff

 

[SLemin]

I'd add the Services Packs on, have you tried logging out of windows and back in - clears the temp files?

rumour has it that a third service pack is out today...

Simon

 

[flexibleautomation]

thanks i will try it.

 

[donyoung]

Hi,

you may add the /3GB switch to your boot.ini. That will give
you approx. 1GB additional address space (this is independent
of the real RAM you have. Sample (last line is normally not
split into two):

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect /3GB <----------

dy

 

[KENAT]

If I recall V19 will handle up to 4 GB of memory. A couple of colleagues have just updated and while it helps a little it's not a magic cure.

I doubt your graphics card is a problem in this situation but you might want to check if you have the latest drivers.

Simplifying parts and assemblies might help, as might configurations depending what you're doing once you have the draft view.

I recall at PLM them talking about a lower quality draft view but can't remember the details. I don't think it was snapshot, maybe someone here can recall more and if it would help.

 

[donyoung]

Hi,

4GB is the maximum a 32-Bit any application can address (2^32).
But that's the address space (virtual memory) and has nothing
to do with the real memory. Without the /3GB switch the address
space available is approx. 1.7GB with /3GB approx. 2.7GB. The
remaning space up to 4GB will be used by the OS.
So when the application requests memory and this will exceed
either limit it encounters an 'out of memory' condition. This
might be caused by the application itself not freeing unused
memory (memory leak).

dy

 

[beachcomber]

Are the parts in your assembly very complex ?
If so you could try simplifying them and let your draft views show the simplified versions.
The spec for your machine should really be up to doing the size of assemblies you refer to, but if you have draft and assembly open and flip between the two it can gradually clog up your system.
Whe doing drafts of big assemblies I've found it best to close and re-open the draft file before doing updates. That way you have freed up as much memory as possible.
At the moment I'm doing drafts of assemblies with something like 18-20K parts, and there are several ways of reducing the amount of data being processed (eg by only displaying visible parts, using simplified parts and/or simplified assemblies).
Most of the drawings only show one view per file, although if it's a section it requires a source view for the cutting plane.
The wokstation is an Opteron 180 with 4GB of RAM and a 256MB Quadro FX something graphics card.

bc