How many times a day are you doing Ram Saver??

[Ron Branch @ Verisurf]

I find myself doing this about 20 to 30 times a day with X4MU2. I have ghost lines and solids and all types of things all the time I never use to have in other releases. I also see this with the levels manager where things will stay on levels that have nothing and have to shut down the levels manager.

 

I did not want to do a poll I wanted to hear feed back from others and see what you were experiencing. Thanks for taking time to respond.

[Colin Gilchrist]

I use RAM-saver about every 15-30 minutes. So 20-30 times a day sounds pretty accurate. This is on my larger files. With smaller files (less than 10 mb), I'm not using RAM-saver much at all, but I still save like it is going out of style...

 

I'd say 4/5 times, RAM-saver finds something that it needs to clean out.

 

BTW, I'm also copying lots of toolpaths, dragging and dropping geometry, and dragging toolpath parameters between ops...

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I never think to do it until I have problems, but that is maybe 2-3 times daily. I had problems with mu1, but mu2 is good for me.

I am still getting the drift in verify in turbo mode that no one else is getting

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

I can't remember the last time I did RAM saver. We're talking probably years to be on the conservative side.

[Greg Williams]

Never used it.

[gcode]

Don't use it unless I'm having problems so with MR2 that would be almost never.

I've got my undo buffer set to 10mg max..

I may be wrong, but I'm convinced that the undo buffer will eat all your ram if left at its default setting.

[j.nguyen]

use it 1/2 dozen times a day. Never use it on small or 3-axis operations.

[Greg Williams]

I am with Gcode, I have the undo set to 10meg max as well

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Mine is set to 32MB. I like to stay divisibles of 8

 

Old habits die hard I guess.

[Ocean Lacky™]

never

[35K chipper]

once a month just to see if it still works!

 

35k

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

 

Guess I ought to try it out eh?

[Chris Rizzo]

a few times a day. esp. when using a file doing lots of r&d/design trial/error and screwing around with surfaces and geo, it gets way clogged up.

[Salahuddin]

never

[HEED]

I haven't used it in recent memory... Would someone please remind me on what it even does??

[mayday]

use it every all the time

I'll have solids that suddenly the sysstem cant see. screen stsats show nothing till I run ram saver.

[moeh]

never used it

[3R!< W3NG3R]

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I'll have solids that suddenly the sysstem cant see. screen stsats show nothing till I run ram saver.

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I suddenly get this too, but I thought it was just this puter.

[peon]

Ron, I ramsaver every 5-10 minutes. I have experienced the funny activity with solids, but I rarely toolpath with solids. Converting everything to surfaces fixes the problem. I tried programming a few parts with solids since X4MU2 and have experienced serious lag issues and went back to surfaces without the lag.

[LA CAMmer]

I use "Regenerate Display List" for ghost lines and such probably 15 times a day. Never use Ram Saver, maybe five times in ten years of programming. My files are generally small (under 10 MB) and I don't have solids. All electrode design work is done in SolidWorks. I merge the SolidWorks file to standard files I created in MasterCAM. And like Colin, I am a habitual saver.

[Mjölnir]

I never use ram saver. Not with all previous versions of Mastercam, either.

 

Regen Display gets used quite a few times per day, however. I have a hot key assigned for it.

 

I work with wireframes, surfaces, solids created in Mastercam, imported solids, and do some minor drafting all on a regular basis in X4 MU2 and have no display problems other than toolpath icons turning into squares on a random infrequent basis when drag copying toolpaths.

 

Intel Core 2 Duo CPU (x64)

NVIDIA FX 1700 display

4GB RAM

[Chris Rizzo]

I tell my students ramsaver is "like flushing the toilet" and emptying all the crap out of the system. You wouldn't believe all the duplicate entities and massive database reductions they see. Really helps solve alot of funky classroom issues.

 

m2c

[Metalmuncher]

Never

[Hardmill]

Neva touch the stuff.

Like some of the others I cant remember the

last time I used it.

 

 

PEACE

[Ron Branch @ Verisurf]

Hum seems to be mixed. I got a great computer with plenty of Processor, Memory, and Video Card so not sure why I am seeing the problems I am. I am going to record some of the stuff after the new year and send off to QC so they can see what I am seeing. Thanks everyone for your responses and if anyone has something to add please feel free to do so.