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Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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Date: 
Fri, 20 Dec 2002 04:57:52 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Tim Courtney writes:
Has anyone had experience with HUGE LDraw files or MPD files (thousands of
parts)? What are the effects? Do they crash some programs, or make them
unusably slow? Just curious.

Thanks!

-Tim

What are you trying to view the file with?  MLCAD has a hard time when the
files get too big even if it is a file with multiple-sub models.  Forget
about LDView it will hog up memory like crazy trying to turn the model.

-Ahui



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
 
(...) As with most large files, the limitation is generally not the program but the amount of memory on your system and the size limit on your virtual memory. -Orion (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
 
(...) Cool. Not trying to load a file, just want a tidbit of information ;-) -Tim (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
 
(...) One of the first things I will probably try to do with LDView after I finally get 2.0 out the door is to work on its memory consumption. But first I have to figure out where all the memory is getting used. Doing some quick calculations based (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)

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  Large LDraw/MPD Files?
 
Has anyone had experience with HUGE LDraw files or MPD files (thousands of parts)? What are the effects? Do they crash some programs, or make them unusably slow? Just curious. Thanks! -Tim (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)

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