topic Re: "Not enough memory" message while rendering in Visualization

"Not enough memory" message while rendering

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 10:18:52 GMT

how am i able to do a rendering without the "not enough memory" archicad pop up from appearing, even if my computer has 2 GB of free memory.

Re: RENDERINGS!!!!

Dwight — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:49:31 GMT

How complex is your model?

Download the polygon counter and see:

http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/downloads/goodies12/USA.html

Perhaps your model has a corrupt element. Use the heavy marquee to cut the model in half and see if you can render that.

Report.

Re: RENDERINGS!!!!

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:58:04 GMT

Well the model is quite complex, so your suggestion of downloading the polygon counter. What does this polygon counter do?

Re: "Not enough memory" message while rendering

Dwight — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:13:01 GMT

The measure of difficulty in a 3D view is the number of polygons imaged.
The polygon counter counts the polygons in the model - different than file size.

Start getting over 2,000,000 and Archicad has a problem.

Re: "Not enough memory" message while rendering

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:39:15 GMT

It sure would be nice if there was a comparison chart of some sort with recommendations to serve as a guide along with the PolyCount tool..... like 2,000,000 polygons = bad (need latest processor and 16 GB of ram minimum)...

Re: "Not enough memory" message while rendering

Dwight — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:48:49 GMT

2 million polygons is written somewhere to be the Precipitous Threshold Of Bad. [PTOB]

i can't remember when or where.

Karl?

My main experience is that Archicad tries to model a corrupt element and thinks it has run out of memory. Otherwise only the Dreaded Spanish Tile Roof will mess up the job.

Re: "Not enough memory" message while rendering

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:36:30 GMT

Hey guys!

I know this is an old post, but I have some major problems. I did what Dwight said below. I am well over 4 million polygons. Yikes.

Our building is 77,000sq. ft and very complex. We have the entire site modeled, every classroom of the school, i mean everything. Our landscape architects came in with a sketch up model and blew everyone away with the movies they made. Super cheesy of course because they were in sketch up, but we are building a school for kids and they all went nuts over it which in turn means so did the clients.

The architect of course now want archicad to do this. But I cant even get the full model to come up in 3d.

I am now in the process of saving off a new model, just to delete everything on the inside of the classrooms and all the non essential polygons that could not be seen in fly arounds. Regardless, I will probably get just under the 2 million polygons and the fly arounds will still take hours upon end to complete. That is of course if "Not Enough Memory" still comes up.

Can anyone offer some advice? I have Archicad 11 and lightworks. I am good with photoshop but cannot edit the movie that way.

I would appreciate it.

Thanks.

JC

Re: "Not enough memory" message while rendering

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:40:22 GMT

Sorry, I thought I changed my signature.

Archicad 11
Dell Precision PWS380
Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00 Ghz
2.00GB of RAM

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI

Re: "Not enough memory" message while rendering

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:47:01 GMT

See if this article helps:
http://www.archicadwiki.com/TechNotes/How%20to%20Control%203D%20performance

Cheers,
Karl

Re: "Not enough memory" message while rendering

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:03:15 GMT

Thanks Karl!

Once I delete everything I think I need to I can pursue the topics in that article a little more.

I appreciate your help!

Re: "Not enough memory" message while rendering

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:02:58 GMT

You're welcome. Hope it helps. Could be the 2GB of RAM is hurting you.

And, of course, turning layers off is a nice alternative to deleting things.

For your signature, could you copy the info that you posted here, and paste it into your profile? Click the blue text Profile link near the top right - the signature field is near the bottom of that screen.

Just visited your website, and have to say that I really want to hire away one of your staff members. Give Murdoch a treat from me. 😉

Cheers,
Karl

Re: "Not enough memory" message while rendering

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:15:51 GMT

Of course there is another solution - use an external renderer!
If you use Artlantis you can get it working for free for 30 day trial - if you enjoy it you might have just justified buying it. Artlantis is so very easy compared to lightworks...
Maxwell is another but I would not recommend it as it is so slow to learn you will run out of time in the trial period!

Re: "Not enough memory" message while rendering

Thomas Holm — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:45:57 GMT

And Josh, upgrade to 12. There's a great performance difference.

Re: "Not enough memory" message while rendering

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:20:19 GMT

Thank you everyone!

I will post some results as soon as I can work through it.