SpaceClaim’s required memory capacity to handling large assemble data

- July 19, 2018 at 5:04 am
  
  miyado
  Subscriber
  
  I received a question from our customers that SpaceClaim hard to read/handle massive CATIA assembly data (catproduct) .
  Is there any rough standard of how much RAM is required to handle large assembly data (eg 1 GB)?
- July 19, 2018 at 6:37 am
  
  Subashni Ravichandran
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hi Miyado
  
  I would suggest clearing out temporary files by going to %Temp% on Windows. Furthur, at SpaceClaim options> Advanced, reducing undo steps and restarting should help save up some RAM. Also, please ensure other memory consuming applications are closed for better performance of SpaceClaim.
  - July 19, 2018 at 9:59 am
    
    miyado
    Subscriber
    
    Subashni
    
    Thank you for your advice.
    
    And now, how much memory is necessary to handle large assembly data consisting of hundreds of parts ?
- July 19, 2018 at 11:43 am
  
  Subashni Ravichandran
  Ansys Employee
  
  Miyado
  
  For a 1GB file, a 32 or 64 GB RAM should do good.
  
  Another way to keep the RAM use low is to use the Lightweight state for components you don't need immediately. A lightweight assembly component uses less memory than an object that is fully loaded. When you are ready to work with it, you can load the geometry information.
  
  Right-click the component in the Structure tree and select Make Lightweight from the context menu.
  The component becomes lightweight and uses less memory. You cannot make an internal component lightweight.
  - July 19, 2018 at 11:58 pm
    
    miyado
    Subscriber
    
    Subashni
    
    Thank you !
    
    It was useful information.

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