SW Hangs When Opening A Drawing
SW Hangs When Opening A Drawing
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This happens 50% of the time. I work on an assy then open the drawing for that assy and SW hangs on the drawing load. I can see the drawing on the screen but there is no info in the feature manager. There is no activity from the CPU either.






RE: SW Hangs When Opening A Drawing
RE: SW Hangs When Opening A Drawing
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RE: SW Hangs When Opening A Drawing
Bradley
SolidWorks Premim 2007 x64 SP3.1
PDM Works, Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 4 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB, nVidia 3400
RE: SW Hangs When Opening A Drawing
RE: SW Hangs When Opening A Drawing
I noticed my computer doing this whenever I tried to open a drawing in Large Assembly Mode. Lightweight didn't seem to bother it as much. But my drawings were of huge assemblies, which may not be your case.
--Nick
Nicholas P. McGrew
SW 2007 SP2.1
AutoCAD 2007
RE: SW Hangs When Opening A Drawing
Using the /3GB switch would probably also help.
RE: SW Hangs When Opening A Drawing
Could you elaborate on this? I'm not sure what this is.
RE: SW Hangs When Opening A Drawing
Heres a start;
thread559-155411: 3GB Memory Switch..
RE: SW Hangs When Opening A Drawing
SP3.1 - I Load drawing "XX", SW hangs, need to CTR-ALT-DEL to kill SW.
Installed SP4. I Load drawing "XX". I get the following error message:
"Solidworks encountered an error opening the document.
Please contact your local Solidworks support representative for help in troubleshooting this problem."
Fortunately I don't have to kill my instance of SW.
RE: SW Hangs When Opening A Drawing
Can the drawing be opened on other computers?
RE: SW Hangs When Opening A Drawing
His SW is still deathly slow when opening drawings and I intend to reapply our companies standard settings some point today.
RE: SW Hangs When Opening A Drawing
Can you update to SP5.1?
RE: SW Hangs When Opening A Drawing
2GB RAM Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2800 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI
Windows XP Pro x64
20 other users can open the dwg with the same system specs so I am not concerned in those respects. I verified the graphics card and ensured appropriate drivers as well. I do have access to SP5.1 but we had problems when we deployed it and had to roll back the few machines we tested.
RE: SW Hangs When Opening A Drawing
Have you cleaned out the temp files recently?
Have you cleaned the inside of the computer recently?
Have you copied the SW settings from a known good machine to this problem one?
Was this machine one of the testers for SP5.1?
RE: SW Hangs When Opening A Drawing
I have not copied the SW settings over and as I mentioned before I intend to do so at some point.
Also on my list of things to check are the ODBC Settings. I want to ensure that they are in the ODBC 32-bit/System DSN.
I may try a repair install or an uninstall/reinstall of SW.