vectorworks 2011 keep crashing saying out of memory

[seokage]

HI

im suddenly having problem with vectorworks keep shutting itself off saying out of memory.

it works fine for the first couple of minute and then it jsut crashes. (not even doing anything complicated. it wont even let me draw a simple line )

tried to update to servicepack 3 thinking it might solve the problem but keep having error updating as well......

ive never had this kind of problem with vectorworks

not sure whats going on...

heres my computers spec

-window vista ultimate

-AMD Phenom9550 quad-core processor 2.20GHz

-4.00GB RAM

Edited April 25, 2011 by seokage

[seokage]

ANY HELP???

[Teresa Hull]

Seokage,

I'm a Mac, so I'm not much help, but make sure your OS and drivers (especially the drivers for your video card) are up to date.

Here are the system requirements for Vectorworks 2011 (copied and pasted from the Vectorworks website):

Windows:

Operating System: Windows XP SP 3

Windows Vista SP 2

Windows 7

Other Software: QuickTime 7.6.0 to 7.6.6 (higher versions not recommended)

Processor: Pentium 2GHz or better

Other Hardware: DVD-ROM drive (dual layer)

Screen Resolution: 1024 x 768 minimum, 1280 x 800 recommended

Display color depth: 15 bit or higher

Vectorworks

RAM 1GB minimum*, 2GB recommended

Hard drive space 10GB free

Vectorworks plus RenderWorks

RAM 2GB minimum*, 4GB recommended

Hard drive space 10GB free

Vectorworks Designer

RAM 1GB minimum*, 2GB recommended

Hard drive space 10GB free

Vectorworks Designer plus RenderWorks

RAM 2GB minimum*, 4GB recommended

Hard drive space 10GB free

[seokage]

ok so i realised the vectorwork is actually working fine as i can work on other files but this spesific file. so i thought this file is corrupted

so i copy and pasted some basic outlines frm the corrupted file and created a new one and drew the whole thing out again and deleted the pasted basic outlines.

but still keep freezing.

ive narrowed it down to this tho

whenever i try to create a tube by exturde along path vectorworks tend to freeze and also when i tried to draw a line over the already somehow draw tube it tends to freeze.

all the other stuff works fine, even on the corrupted file as long as i dont touch or go anywhere near any tube shapes.

only problem is i need to draw alot of tubes for this 3d modelling im doing.....

not sure how to fix this.....sounds like a ridiculous problem....

[mike m oz]

If this happens with those extrudes along paths in a separate file can you post that file here so someone can have a look at it and try and figure out what the problem might be.

Have you bug submitted your problem to Computers Unlimited?

[seokage]

ive uploaded my file thats having the problem

thanks

[michaelk]

It hung up on me, too. When I tried to do something with the outer tube.

I reopened it again and rebuilt the path of the outer tube (it had extra vertices in one corner).

That seemed to make it happier. I was able to add all the solids (except the invisible rectangular extrude) together to one object.

No hangs or crashes yet...

hth

mk

[mike m oz]

seokage, its not the file that is the problem. I can open it and draw dozens of lines across the Extrudes Along Path. I can also modify the Extrudes Along Path without any problems.

I did notice a couple of ways you can simplify the drawing:

- Use Extrude rather than Extrude Along Path for straight lengths of tube.

- In the path keep arc radii greater than the tube radius.