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Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Fri, 20 Dec 2002 05:17:38 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Ahui Herrera writes:
> 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

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



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  Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
 
(...) I've got 512MB of RAM and when I run MLCad with some of my big files I make sure that NOTHING else (including background apps) are running. -AHui (24 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
 
(...) 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 (24 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)

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