Illustrator 5.5 - Not enough memory (I have 12GB)

Hi, I am trying to do an assignment for class and when i try to use the 3D Effect - Revolve, I keep getting greeted with an annoying message saying that there is not enough available memory. First of all, I am working with a pretty small file size and just a simple operation. I just built myself a monster computer with Core i7 2600k processor and 12GB of RAM. Needless to say, it is a little bit frustrating when I am told there isn't enough memory..
Anyone know the issue and how to fix it?
Thanks,
Steve

Your issue sounds similar to a problem I accidentally ran into a while back, when I revolved on object with a fill, and Illustrator froze up.
Illustrator is trying to revolve the brush pattern itself in 3D, meaning creating a highly complex 3D object with a pattern in depth, which it isn't powerful enough to do well, and this doesn't do you any good either, as you can't see inside the object.
What Revolve is intended to do is create a hollow 3D object with an outer surface, and all you want for that is a line, which then becomes the outer surface. So make sure what you are revolving a line with no fill, brush or pattern, Illustrator will create the plain surface of the revolved object very quickly, and you can then do as you will to the surface that has been created.
(Anyway, that is what made sense to me, and solved my problem, though I certainly stand to be corrected by the more knowledgeable.)

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