Re: [brlcad-devel] Region Conversions

[Christopher S. M. <br...@ma...>]

On Jun 7, 2009, at 5:54 PM, Tom Browder wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 16:27, Christopher Sean  
> Morrison<br...@ma...> wrote:
> ...
>> Another interesting note, though, is the way the memory is being
>> managed and the fact that you ran out of memory implies you told it
>> to run on some high/top-level object?  In that particular instance,
>> you could try just tessellating region by region first.
>
> Ah, that probably explains lots.  I just fed it "all" and all the
> output talks about converting regions which got me lazily thinking I
> was getting a bot per region--duh!

It does at least initially give you a bot per region, but if it's a  
file format that only supports one object (e.g., stl), then it has to  
keep going and there are many more opportunities for failure.  More  
specific to the memory issue, though, it's working on all regions as  
"one job" so it has to keep thing around where as it can work on  
things in smaller chunks if you process region by region.

Cheers!
Sean