Limits: build volume and memory

Shapeaway clay grows in any direction, so each sculpt has two limits to keep it from running away:

Limit	Default	Means
Build limit	1 m	How far the clay may reach
Memory limit	4 GB	Clay, undo history and meshes together

When you reach one

Shapeaway finishes the stroke, then asks whether to raise the limit for this sculpt. The new limit is saved in the file. Strokes that would grow past the build limit stop at it.

Defaults for new sculpts

Settings › Limits sets the limits new and opened sculpts start with.

What else follows the memory limit

The detail mesh triangle ceiling: half the memory limit’s worth of triangles, at least 24 million and at most 48 million.