Error Message: 'not enough room in the heap zone'

[Anonymous]

When saving some big files in Archicad, I keep getting:

'not able to save file. not enough room in the heap zone'

Then the program closes. So I am unable to save.

I have increased the virtual memory to see if that would make any difference, however its giving same error.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

[TomWaltz]

What kind of computer specs?

[Anonymous]

TomWaltz wrote:
What kind of computer specs?

Ok, got the specs... Shes running:

AMD Athlon XP 2700+ 2.17 GHz, 1.50 GB of RAM

Seems to be more than enough.....

[TomWaltz]

How big of file are we talking about? 100 MB? 200 MB?

[Anonymous]

This is a very old error message (I thought it had long since gone extinct). I suspect bad RAM. If you have three 512MB DIMMs you can try pulling out each one in turn and see if the problem persists.

If you've been thinking about a RAM upgrade (or the cost is no big deal to you) you could buy some 1GB DIMMs. I have always bought my RAM from Crucial (a division of Micron - longtime OEM to Apple and IBM) and have never had a problem.

[Anonymous]

I have also run into this in our office. We have had very old parts "version 6.5" used in 10. This seems to make the situation worse. I have had this issue several times when converting old files to 10. No more trying to cheat for me. Worth the time to go ahead and update everything before jumping in head first.

I have had more trouble with this when using the internal engine with hidden line and saving these to our cover sheet pages. Could the file size of these be causing trouble as well? Tiff's cause the same issue as well.

A work around that has worked a few times for me is to simply save the file as a different name. Not sure why this helps, but it has so far.

[Anonymous]

i am also getting this problem any fixes for this?

[Anonymous]

Me Too.

[Anonymous]

Not even working in AC at the moment and the program has locked up 288MB of memory is this normal? I usually never look at memory usage.

[Anonymous]

for me it seems to have something to do with the Fills and there scales. My Mesh has a top surface material that is associated with a modified Stone Surface fill. If I change the Mesh top material to a material that does not have a fill associated with it the file saves.