Shading error on large file

[Mark H]

I have a 375 meg file (around 50,000 surfaces - no toolpaths). When I try to shade it I get an error...

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opman

 

Not enough memory available

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FYI - My system has 2 gigs of ram. The video card is Quadro FX 1400 with 128 mb. (Nvidia drivers, NOT Dell's) Running dual monitors at 1280 x 1042 with 32 bit color.

 

Also there is a progress bar at the bottom that shows 1/4 done while attmepting to shade before the error popped up. So on a different attempt I was able to hide 3/4 of the surface and had no problems with shading.

 

Any ideas? Is there a setting somewhere that I need to change? MC settings, video card setting?

[Goldorak]

go to system config>toolpath then allow more physical memory to mcamx (like 75% )

 

you might have 2g of memory but only 256mb allowed to mcamx !!!

[Ocean Lacky™]

Try a looser Chord Height tolerance on the Shading parameters page. The default is .002 I think, but I set mine for .005 and tighten it up when I need to see the detail.

[Mark H]

Axela 06 thanks for your reply... Yeah, I looked at that, but I think that is only for toolpaths, not shading - it was set to 50% - 1 gig.

 

However I did get to shade the entire file and here is what I did;

 

Turned down the color depth in windows from 32 bit to 16 bit. I was able to shade 75% before the error popped up this time - some progress...

 

Then I went into the MC's System configuration, Shading options and changed the Parameter - Chord height from .0005 to .001 (inch) and all is well!

[Mark H]

Yup, Ocean Lacky, that was one trick that worked!