When I set $fs to its minimum ($fs=0.01) I start running into memory problems, such as the message "WARNING: GeometryEvaluator: Node didn't fit into cache".  The program slows down to a crawl as if it's paging. FYI I'm running OpenSCAD version 2015.03-2 on debian 9 ('stretch'), 64-bit kernel. I noticed that there are some cache related variables in the config files.  Would changing any of these values help?  I haven't found any documentation on them. Is there a way of giving openscad more memory? I haven't seen anything about this in the documentation or in the man page. thanks

$fs = 0.01 is pretty insane. That means the distance between each vertex is about 1/100th of a millimeter. That's going to generate a ton of vertices on all but the smallest, simplest models. Is there any reason you want it so low? I usually don't go below $fs = 0.2 on most things (depends on the model) and that's already what I would consider pretty fine detail. That said, if you still want to increase your cache size, you can do so in Preferences -> Advanced -> Polyset cache size On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 1:48 PM Barnet Wagman <bdwgen@gmail.com> wrote: > > When I set $fs to its minimum ($fs=0.01) I start running into memory > problems, such as the message "WARNING: GeometryEvaluator: Node didn't > fit into cache". The program slows down to a crawl as if it's paging. > > FYI I'm running OpenSCAD version 2015.03-2 on debian 9 ('stretch'), > 64-bit kernel. > > I noticed that there are some cache related variables in the config > files. Would changing any of these values help? I haven't found any > documentation on them. > > Is there a way of giving openscad more memory? I haven't seen anything > about this in the documentation or in the man page. > > thanks > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > Discuss@lists.openscad.org > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org