SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — out of memory

Re: out of memory

null@example.com (Stimp) — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:26:47 +0000

I just got a round to setting threads to one with Slic3r and it sliced with out a problem.
thank you
Rich

Re: out of memory

null@example.com (cckens) — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:00:40 +0000

Just pulled the thing into meshlab as it was grinding my system to a halt. 720K facets on this sucker. This would make anything but a high memory-high cpu system crawl. It's a nice design, and it's a clean mesh, but, boy, is this thing tri-heavy!

Re: out of memory

null@example.com (cckens) — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:40:51 +0000

Found the thing http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:26251 but the file size is 34MB. Quite a difference from the 2.86 you have there. I'm slicing now, but at that file size it would run out of memory on a lot of smaller machines.

Re: out of memory

null@example.com (Tomek) — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:33:13 +0000

Under one of the slicer settings, you can set how many threads you run. One some huge models, I have had to reduce it to 1 thread instead of 2 threads to get the model to slice without problems.

It is more typically however a problem with the file. try running the file through netfabb.

Re: out of memory

null@example.com (cckens) — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:20:01 +0000

Meshlab shows no vertices in this model. The preview confirms this. Don't know what happened, but the STL file seems empty.

out of memory

null@example.com (Stimp) — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:10:43 +0000

I have been trying to print this vase (Siamese_Orchid_Vase.stl) that I found online at Thingiverse. When trying to slice the .stl with Slic3r I keep getting an error “out of memory”. My computer is an XP with 4GB of memory. Is this right or is the stl file bad?
Rich