Inventor reaches virtual memory capicity and crashes.

[Anonymous]

I am running Inventor 2015 on a VM Fusion virtual machine using windows 8. I have given the system 3 gigs of virtual memory and aprox. 1 gig of ram. When trying to open a step file which was exported from Key Creator 2005 the program loads each detail individualy overwhelming the systems virtual memory and crashing inventor. I am able to open the file without problem using AutoCAD is thier a way I can open the file on Inventor without crashing the system?

[DarrenP]

1 gig of ram for inventor is not enough

[jalger]

Hi Zombiepickles,

You need about 10gb of free Memory for background operations and Calcs, I would say the issue is not enough temp space.

If you were just modelling the 3GB would be fine, but any rendering, Stress tests, or Visual Tests would kill the system.

(its probably running really slow since the temp files are not purging quick enough)

That and 1gb of ram won't cover the operating System...

Set it to the minimum Requirements:

(Look at the Mac Virtualization)

Intel® Core 2 Duo or greater, 3.0 GHz or greater

Microsoft® 64-bit Windows® 7 (SP1), Windows® 8 or Windows®8.1

Recommended: 16 GB RAM or greater

Minimum: 8 GB RAM

Minimum: 500 GB disk space

At a minimum you should have the same.

(500gb of Vitirual HD Might be bit much so go 100GB MORE then the Install of Windows and The design Suite /Inventor)

I hope this helps,

James

[blair]

In a 64 bit O/S, 4Gb of memory would be the same a 3Gb of memory in a 32 bit O/S, either way, you are light on memory.

[Paul-Mason]

I'd say for VIRTUAL MEMORY, this is actually HD space, something like 2 x you physical RAM as minimum setting and up to 8 time as the maximum this of courses all depends on you AVAILABLE HD SPACE

These are my settings  (min = 2x32GB) (max = 2x min or (4x32)and I have very little problems.

OR set it to systems managed

What capacity HD are you using? if it small, and full of files/programs then you will ALWAYS have this problem. Remove and/or transfer unused files/programs & defrag regularly,  and if all else fails get a bigger capacity HD