> I have been monitoring memory usage and that is
> when it seem to start giving me headaches.

Yeah all kinds of actions require allocating some memory at least for a while to do stuff, so everything will start to fail if it reaches the "memory totally full" type state - you want to try to never reach that point.


> Question then: if I lessen the display mesh will that affect the
> quality of the model when I export it?

Nope, the export mesh is calculated totally separately from the display mesh, so the display mesh setting has nothing to do with the export.

- Michael

Hi Sebastian,

> UPDATE: Set the value to 5 (was 0.2) and unchecked
> inflections and its worked!!

Yeah 0.2 is extremely tight - that's asking for only a deviation of 0.2 angular degrees between surface normals of the display mesh, so that's going to generate a tremendous number of triangles.

Even 5 degrees is still quite tight - the default is 10 and even that is on the tighter side.

If you are working with large files I would recommend setting "Mesh angle" to 25 degrees (25, not 2.5) and uncheck "Add detail to inflections" and that will help lessen the memory load by quite a bit.

- Michael

Thanks for the replies, everyone. Like I said, I got it sorted and learned something too :)