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2006 Performance

2006 Performance

2006 Performance

(OP)
I just switched to 2006 from 2004. Working on the same stuff seems to take forever now. Has anybody else run into this?

www.engtran.com
www.niswug.org

RE: 2006 Performance

No.
Try updating files with SW Task Scheduler.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)

RE: 2006 Performance

Nope. Went from 2003 to 2005 to 2006. Only difference is upgrade to 2GB RAM ... & updated video drivers of course.

cheers
Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: 2006 Performance

(OP)

Quote:

& updated video drivers of course.
Thanks for the memory jog. I now remember that 2006 has different drivers on the approved list.

www.engtran.com
www.niswug.org

RE: 2006 Performance

All of you files must be converted to SW2006. Has that been done?

Ken

RE: 2006 Performance

(OP)
Nope. 8Gb vault. We have never mass converted the vault before. Some models go back to 99 or earlier.

www.engtran.com
www.niswug.org

RE: 2006 Performance

thread559-136611
If you are using pdmworks you might want to take a look at this thread.
(not sure if any changes since the thread)
dsgnr1

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RE: 2006 Performance

No wonder you are having performance problems!

Did you mean 80GB? 8GB isn't that big!

Run the conversion overnight or over the weekend. You don't have to you convert everthing at the same time ... do it in smaller batches.

It can make a big difference.

cheers
Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: 2006 Performance

Paul, I'm sure you know that each time you open one of those swx 99 files that swx has to convert it to 2000, 2001, 2001plus, 2003, 2004, 2005, and then 2006. Especially a problem as you work on an assembly and the various parts are in 99 format. If you aren't revising the parts, and they are opening read-only, everytime you reopen the assembly to work on it, it has to reconvert those parts as they load.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2

RE: 2006 Performance

(OP)
Most of the slowness is after loading the model. Conversion should be done by then. I don't have access to the vault directly. I'll have to see what can be done.

www.engtran.com
www.niswug.org

RE: 2006 Performance

I believe the message is something like, "This model will be converted when saved".

Yes the parts are converted when loaded, but only into RAM (Graphics and or physical). If the model is modified, would it not be rebuilt from the original file?

cheers
Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: 2006 Performance

You can test it easily enough. Use Swx Explorer to copy the assembly and all files and add a suffix to the file names like "2006". Then run the conversion wizard on all the files and see if that helps the assembly response times.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2

RE: 2006 Performance

(OP)
This would have been the first time the conversion wizard was needed to bring performance up. It did help, but it is not to where 2004 was. Some of the files converted went back to 1999. 2004 was happy with them as were previous releases. And the conversion wizard didn't screw up to many files.

www.engtran.com
www.niswug.org

RE: 2006 Performance

Turn off any add-ins you have turned on that you are not using, this will help with some performance issues.

Regards,

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

RE: 2006 Performance

(OP)
Everybody seems to think conversion will help this issue. What surprises me is that our vault contains models that still have the prt extension. We have never converted the vault since starting with SW in 97 and have not seen this kind of performance hit upgrading on previous releases. I did convert the vault, though not the way suggested here. Instead I came in after hours, started up seven workstations and converted on a sub folder by sub folder basis. This was a good thing because the conversion tool crashed at least six times and failed to convert all files about the same amount. An attempt at overnight conversion using task scheduler would not have succeeded.

The result of the conversion was some speed up, but still not to 2004 levels on our drawings. In addition we have already seen at least one serious drawing bug in SP4.1.

www.engtran.com
www.niswug.org

RE: 2006 Performance

What bug is that?

RE: 2006 Performance

I have never had the conversion tool crash. But that's probably because I've converted version by version & except for 2003 to 2005. I have had conversion failures, but not very many.

Just out of curiosity, which SW version files failed the most or which caused the crashes?

cheers
Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
How to find answers ... FAQ559-1091

RE: 2006 Performance

Are you using SP 4.1?  It seems like it handles memory a little better than the previous SW06 SP's.  

SP4-bad experience
http://eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=153253&page=9

I noticed a bigger performance hit at home for SW06 than I did at work.  At home I had only 512Mb ram and on smaller assemblies this wasn't a problem, but after upgrading to SW06, my home pc crawled on the same assemblies.  After upgrading to 2 Gb, it worked much better.  

Flores
SW06 SP4.1

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