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2006 stability.....

2006 stability.....

2006 stability.....

(OP)
Have you guys found 2006 to be stable. The software crashed on me at least 5 times daily...It always seems to happen when I am changing component angles and component configurations within an assembly(rather simple things).

RE: 2006 stability.....

We have had very good luck with 2006 and stability.  We typically don't have a stability issue with any version of SW.  It could be a driver, hardware or set-up issue?

Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern
Vermont SolidWorks User Group
www.robrodriguez.com
SW 2006 SP 2.0

RE: 2006 stability.....

List your specs especially your Graphics card and the driver version. THe video card and the drivers are usally the problem when stability is not present.

Regards,

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

RE: 2006 stability.....

That's what it sounds like to me as well.  I have an FX-500 card and found that it's much more stressed with 2006 than with 2005.  I turned off the 3D-looking dimensions to make them flat against the screen plane and that helped a lot.

Otherwise, my version of 2006 is very stable.

Many people don't normally account for a more demanding software update by upgrading their hardware--so it seems like the new software is less stable.  In fact, it's often a hardware problem, as was mentioned above.  Check the drivers, etc. too.


Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions.

RE: 2006 stability.....

(OP)
My driver version went back to 2003??? I updated it, and hopefully this will fix my problem...I am running an ATI FireGL x2 card...
As usaul thank you for the input!!!

RE: 2006 stability.....

Since you updated I assume you updated it to the version of driver that SW certified and did not use the latest driver from ATI.

Regards,

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

RE: 2006 stability.....

(OP)
Sure Did, Thanks for the heads up though....

RE: 2006 stability.....

We had a lot of issue when we first loaded SW. We ended up having to run a registry edit to make sure the associations were correct, this fixed the issues we had and have had a very stable system to date.

Most of this came from the corporate Anti-Virus program we had.

RE: 2006 stability.....

brudje,

Did you do an update to install SW2006, or did you uninstall SW2005 first?  And if you uninstalled SW2005 first, did you clean out the registry as well?  (I ask because most of my initial instability problems with SW2005 were caused by not cleaning out the registry first.  See Scott's FAQ on uninstalling SolidWorks for more info.)

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