Visio 2000 Maximum number of objects?

[Henry]

I am using Visio 2000 SR-1 (6.0.2072)

I have a VERY large system diagram (no I cannot make it any simpler - I have
chopped quite a bit out already and my customer does not want less) and if I
add much more, it fails to save (giving an error message - "Internal Error
2159") and corrupts the file (the size changes from about 800kB to 2kB). If
I remove some bits, I can then try saving again, and the file gets rewritten
correctly.

Is there a known limit to the number of objects?

(By "objects" I mean the individual boxes, lines, arrows, bits of text
etc. - not some specific use of the word "Object" within Visio's Help File.)

If there is a limit, is there a way of determining how many object currently
exist, so that I can check to see if I am nearing that limit?

Thanks in advance

Henry
(UK)

 

[Henry]

I am using Visio 2000 SR-1 (6.0.2072)

I have a VERY large system diagram (no I cannot make it any simpler - I have
chopped quite a bit out already and my customer does not want less) and if I
add much more, it fails to save (giving an error message - "Internal Error
2159") and corrupts the file (the size changes from about 800kB to 2kB). If
I remove some bits, I can then try saving again, and the file gets rewritten
correctly.

Is there a known limit to the number of objects?

(By "objects" I mean the individual boxes, lines, arrows, bits of text
etc. - not some specific use of the word "Object" within Visio's Help File.)

If there is a limit, is there a way of determining how many object currently
exist, so that I can check to see if I am nearing that limit?

Thanks in advance

Henry
(UK)

Did a check with lots of empty boxes, and it gave out after 5458 boxes.

Is this number familiar or significant?

 

[Randall Arnold]

I'm not sure if there's a limit, but I've worked with some extremely large
Visio files myself, and discovered my problems were due to insufficient ram.
I went from 256 meg to 512 meg and eventually to 1 gig-- which did the
trick.

What's your ram situation?

Randall Arnold

 

[Henry]

I'm not sure if there's a limit, but I've worked with some extremely large
Visio files myself, and discovered my problems were due to insufficient ram.
I went from 256 meg to 512 meg and eventually to 1 gig-- which did the
trick.

What's your ram situation?

512MB, with over 300 free with a drawing that is right at the limit loaded.
Also have 1.4GB of virtual memory free.

If that is the problem, I am not likely to be able to get it upgraded as it
is an office machine and they are very slow to respond to this sort of
thing.

 

[Randall Arnold]

I noticed significant improvement going from 512 to 1 gig. Virtual ram made
almost zero impact.

Ram is so cheap, I'm hoping you can convince your manager that the expense
is well-worth it. Good luck.

Randall Arnold

 

[Andy [MS]]

If I remember correctly, ~5000 objects was the most that Visio 5.0 could
reasonably handle. Visio made some great strides in reducing the overhead of
each shapes for the 2000 product, and I know it can go well over 5K. I don't
know if there is an absolute limit, but I do recall some tests with at least
10-20K shapes.