Cant save

[sasha1]

Hello everyone,
Im currently machining a large complex aerospace part, my problem is that when trying to save the part I get error message stating "out of memory". Its as if its a swap-space
problem because I just exit the part then restart and continue. Is there any way of increasing "swap space" within NX5?

 

[cowski]

If you are running out of swap space, I believe that setting will have to be changed in your operating system (NX doesn't have any control over it). To the best of my knowledge you can't dedicate space to a particular program.

 

[hudson888]

Assuming that you're running windows go into Control Setting you paging file and swap file sizes to the same size and make that size the recommended maximum. It may not entirely solve your problem but by not letting Windows attempt to do manage the file sizes automatically things tend to run more smoothly at least until the point when you run out of memory. This has been recommended to me back when we were running NT, and still works for XP.

Best Regards

Hudson

 

[NXMold]

We have been running into this fairly regularly where I work in moldwizard assemblies (but no NC work in UG). We have machines with 6 and 8gb of RAM, some 32bit some 64bit.

The system memory is not being fully utilized when UG displays the "out of memory" warning and gives up. Seems to be an internal application limit. I don't have any solutions, nor am I certain about the system settings.

 

[JohnRBaker]

If you're running NX on a 32-bit Windows system, do you have the 3GB option set so that NX gets the full benefit of the physical memory available on your 32-bit system? If not, then no matter how much memory you have, only 2GB will be available for NX. Note that this switch is NOT an NX option, but rather it's set in Windows.

Now if you're running a 32-bit version of NX on a 64-bit system you can now get at the full 4GB of memory avialable to a 32-bit application (in a 32-bit system the OS takes the first GB or so, leaving only a maximum of 3GB for the applications such as NX, while on a 64-bit system the first 4GB is set aside for 32-bit applications since the OS if running up in the 64-bit memory space).

Of course if you install a 64-bit version of NX on a 64-bit system, there is no practical limit since NX can now access the full 64-bit of memory address-space, which is a VERY LARGE number indeed.


John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

 

[hudson888]

How do you set the 3Gb option so that NX gets the full benefit of the physical memory available on your 32-bit system?

See if this works for XP users.

http://softimage.wiki.avid.com/index.php/How_To:_Set_the_/3GB_Switch

Hudson

 

[sasha1]

Have adjusted system to advice given, fingers crossed it appears to have improved.
Many thanks , its good to find point of contact for practical advice.