I have a rather large parasolid file (300MB) of an engine model that I am trying to open/convert. It is the X_T format, exported from UG I believe (or whatever GM uses).
When I try to open it, SW creates placeholder files in the directory for each file that will be created (~550). I have it set to automatically select large assembly mode upon opening more than 100 parts of an assy. At some point in the process of opening the assembly, SW reaches a memory usage of 1,200,140 KB, and then gives me an error indicating that it cannot obtain the required memory to continue. At this point, the total indicated memory usage is 1,517,356 KB. My system has 2GB of installed RAM and another 2GB of page file space. Task manager indicates 478,580 KB of available RAM (physical).
Does anyone have any ideas why SW is having trouble addressing more than
1.2GB of RAM. This has happened multiple times on different files.Could I have bad RAM? Could it be a windows problem? I'm running win2000, on SP4.
It would be nice if SW opened files like this differently. Maybe they could open one at a time, resolve it, save it, and then switch to lightweight.
MHill