CATIA V5 Tip: Set Memory Trigger warning before CATIA Crashes!

Everyone working with CATIA V5 must be aware of the famous CATIA Termination error. Upon heavy usage of system’s memory, CATIA most often crashes without warning. If you are in middle of something and didn’t save your work, you might lose all your precious work.

A precautionary measure option in CATIA V5 when set gives you a warning of exceeded memory usage. At this time you can immediately save your work

How to set ‘Memory Warning’ Trigger Limit in CATIA V5?

1. Go to ‘Tools’—> Options.
2. In the ‘General Options’, select the ‘General’ tab.
3. In the ‘Memory Warning’ section, check “Trigger Memory Warning at __% of memory use”.
You can set the percentage value depending on your RAM size and how early you wish to get the memory exceeded warning.
4. Checking the ‘Trigger Memory Stopper’ box will activate a memory stopper mechanism for applications unable to proceed when memory consumption is too high. You may leave this unchecked.