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Solidworks opens large assemblies very slowly from network

Solidworks opens large assemblies very slowly from network

Solidworks opens large assemblies very slowly from network

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I'm the IT support person. One of the engineers is complaining about how slow large assemblies open and close. (For example, One smaller assembly has about 200 files opening up from different directories and Solidworks makes temps of all of them in the network directories.) But the network tests out fine. He isn't using much resources on the net or on his PC and all other apps work fine on his PC, even while Solidworks is bogging down.(SW uses about 250meg of ram. There's 2GB of ram on the PC, with dual processors.) I have Cisco 3550 switches and a gigabyte pipe to the RAID 5, dual processor server. And there's next to no other traffic. Just him.(Only 25 users on the net. Very light-weight use by everyone else.)

It's seem like the more he works on an assembly, the worse the performance. I completely uninstalled SW from his PC. He was fine for about a week, then SW started to bog down again. He's the only one with this problem and it's with the assemblies he has worked on. Are there settings in his Solidworks that might be causing this problem? Or maybe the way he saves files when doing revisions? Should the temp files load on his PC and not the server?

RE: Solidworks opens large assemblies very slowly from network

We had the same problem with our PDM add-in turned on. See thread559-137785
I ran a swSettings.sldreg file that I created on my PC some time ago for another person, whose system open files fast. After running swSettings.sldreg my system would open a model fast. If I ran my current swSettings.sldreg my system would open files slow.

Bottom line try what PDMAdmin says to try in thread559-137785:

With SolidWorks shut down, try going into the registry and removing HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/SolidWorks.  Then try restarting SolidWorks and see if you still have the same problem.  You'll lose your menu placement, but in my experience, that method has fixed most instability issues.

Bradley

RE: Solidworks opens large assemblies very slowly from network

FAQ559-1094

Try these few options.

FYI some links no longer work. I am still trying to find time to update them.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

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