Out of Memory...How come?!

[carpalmer]

VW 12.0.1 / XP / 3 GB RAM / 2 core Athlon FX60

Updating VP and getting "one or more operations aborted because of lack of memory". Sheet DPI set at 350, VP is about 12" x 24", Final Quality (recusrsion 2). Why is VW running out of memory?! Do I need to adjust a setting in Windows?

Pls advise.

Thx,

Carpalmer

[CipesDesign]

Try reducing the DPI of the sheet layer. I sometimes get this messege, and feel it is probably erroneous. Also you might try quitting and restarting VW's...

[carpalmer]

Thanks Peter, but do not want to reduce DPI. I need a high quality print for signage purposes. Besides 300 is pretty standard.

I tried closing VW and re-opening, but did not work, maybe re-start...?

[CipesDesign]

two comments: 1) You said in your original post "350 dpi". Have you tried reducing it 300? 2) Sometimes I use a little script that I created to select all of the VP's on a given sheet layer. Sometimes there are VP's that are outside of the printable area and therefore when I use the script and then hit UPDATE it either takes forever or I get the same message you mention. And, perhaps restarting and/or trashing your preferences might help. CAUTION: if you trash your pref's you will need to recreate them, including serial number entry. Besides, I'm not sure that will have any effect on this issue anyhow.

[carpalmer]

Anyone from VW to commnet, Dave?

[islandmon]

The VP may just have a corrupted Layer link or Class description. Try re-making the VP ( if multiple Layers , then test each one ).

[Guest]

How large is the VW file?

What other programs are running while VW is running?

[Dave Donley]

Hello carpalmer:

Like Peter says, are any viewports located far from the page origin - like way off the page? We have seen several files recently where an alert about DPI comes up but the problem was really that the model was very (very) far from the origin.

HTH,