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"Not enough memory" message while rendering

Anonymous
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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.
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Dwight
Newcomer
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.
Dwight Atkinson
Anonymous
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Well the model is quite complex, so your suggestion of downloading the polygon counter. What does this polygon counter do?
Dwight
Newcomer
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.
Dwight Atkinson
Anonymous
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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)...
Dwight
Newcomer
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.
Dwight Atkinson
Anonymous
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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
Anonymous
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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
Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
See if this article helps:
http://www.archicadwiki.com/TechNotes/How%20to%20Control%203D%20performance

Cheers,
Karl
One of the forum moderators
AC 27 USA and earlier   •   macOS Ventura 13.6.7, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
Anonymous
Not applicable
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!