2007 Solidworks is SLOW?
2007 Solidworks is SLOW?
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Just asking about.
We just converted to 2007 Solidworks here at work. Has anyone noticed it runs abit SLOWER then when using 2006? Or is it just us here at work?
Thanks
We just converted to 2007 Solidworks here at work. Has anyone noticed it runs abit SLOWER then when using 2006? Or is it just us here at work?
Thanks






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Have you converted all the files to SW07 format [u]before[/b] opening.
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We now see a definate slowness in opening drawings and assembly parts.
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Thanks for your help CorBlimeyLimey
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What are your computer specs just for a point of reference.
What is the slowness you are seeing? Please be more specific.
Also be sure to get SP 4.0 as CorBlimeyLimey suggests.
SolidWorks 2007 is a bit more demanding of the computer hardware then SW2006. On older computer systems you may notice it to be a bit slower in some areas. For the most part though for us we do not notice any real slowdowns with SW2007.
Regards,
Anna Wood
SW 2007 SP4.0, WinXP
Dell Precision 380, Pentium D940, 4 Gigs RAM, FX3450
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/solidmuse
http://www.phxswug.com
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Rip
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Intel Xeon 3.72Ghz
2.0 GB Ram
Nvidia Quadro FX 3500
Ripper, no we did not uninstall the past versions...
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Maybe you are experiencing network slowness and the upgrade was just a coincidence.
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A bit slower? A lot slower! I'm really not too happy with SW2007 at all. I wish I was still on SW2006, but was forced to upgrade due to users installing the software on there computers without IT's approval nor internal beta testing. Anyways...I see a poor performance in the drawings and some in large assemblies. I'm test driving SP4.0 right now and seems to be a slight improvement, but not much as SW preaches.
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Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 4.0
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
nVida Quadro FX 3450/4000
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Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 4.0
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
nVida Quadro FX 3450/4000
RE: 2007 Solidworks is SLOW?
My main concern right now is the SPEED, or the LACK of SPEED.
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Bottom line, I believe SW 2007 is a lot slower.
Good Luck,
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Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 4.0
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
nVida Quadro FX 3450/4000
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Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 4.0
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
nVida Quadro FX 3450/4000
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Information Technology = IT
Texas Instrument = TI
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funny........
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Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 4.0
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
nVida Quadro FX 3450/4000
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More on the subject, I'm still really doubting to go over to SW2007. At the moment I work at a customer 3 days a week in SW2007 and I do my own projects in SW2006. My customers computer hardware is really up a few nodges comparing to my own system but I am really missing the "smoothness" feeling here that I do have on my own system running SW2006.
Bouke Brouwers
M-Des
The Netherlands.
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Remember you have to Uninstall the old driver, Reboot, Install the new driver, Reboot, and test.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP![[pc2] pc2](https://www.tipmaster.com/images/pc2.gif)
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Thanks,
Colin
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Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 4.0
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
nVida Quadro FX 3450/4000
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Rporter, where do you find the info on SP4 for PDM? Is there problem with PDM on 2007 SP3.1?
Thanks
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Pete
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Are you sure about ALWAYS installing an older version before installing the next major release? Is there a downside to having 2 major releases installed concurrently? If so, this is news to me. I'm not talking about an upgrade from one major release to the next, I'm talking about 2 parallel installations on the same machine.
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You can have 2 major version installed on the same machine, but you must be very careful to keep them in separate install folders. I actually run anywhere from 2-3 major versions (including Betas). I would recommend for your regular users that they just have 1 version installed - unless you need others for working with other parties that, say, run on a previous version. You also need to take care that your toolbox data is kept separate from major versions. All in all, I would recommend just sticking to one major version if you don't need 2 or more.
Here is my outline for updating users here from major versions...
1. Backup Data
2. Turn off AV software
3. Un-install previous version of SolidWorks (including all other programs)
4. Delete the install folders (all of them)
5. Clean the registry
6. Reboot
7. Turn of AV software
8. Install the Newer Major version
9. Apply company standards via a reg file
10. Run CCleaner (clears temp file junk and invalid registry entries)
11. Defrag
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Seems the way your doing it makes it alot cleaner install, but will the newer version run cleaner then not doing it the way you mentioned?
I am not a IT (not TI, as I put before..:) ) person, and am not sure. So not sure what is the best way, but again, the IT person here doesn't understand Solidworks.
Sbaugh, seems what you saying is my Quadro FX 3500 card, might not be the best for Solidworks. I am POSITIVE the company will NOT replace are cards though.
Thanks
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If you choose the upgrade from one major to the next without choosing new install and without keeping a new install separate, then you will end up with SolidWorks issues. If this is your case, then I would recommend following the procedure I listed above. If you are only running SolidWorks 2007 and did an upgrade from 2006 - then this could be the source of your slowness issues (could be).
Pete
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My Uninstall process was for the driver and the driver only. Also that process only works with Nvidia drivers. Those drivers are notorious for conflicting drivers if you don't uninstall the drivers first and ensure that Windows uses the VGA driver when you reboot after you remove the old driver. If you don't get all the drivers removed, then the chances of you getting a conflict in drivers are high. You want be able to tell either, because it will tell you, you are using the latest driver. So when you install new drivers for Nvidia cards follow that process above and make sure that your VGA driver takes over when you reboot.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP![[pc2] pc2](https://www.tipmaster.com/images/pc2.gif)
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"If IT has you guys locked down, then at least there should be a liason between engineering and IT - someone that is familiar with both worlds and can instruct/advise IT on how to proceed."
Pete
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Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP![[pc2] pc2](https://www.tipmaster.com/images/pc2.gif)
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A couple of people have mentioned about the "anti-virus" software being disabled on this forum. I know for sure we didn't do that.
A co-worker mentioned to me, that I forgot, though we have Solidworks local on our computers. We will be running COSMOS on the server, plus the router add-in. Being that we will use floating licenses for those two items.
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Below are the registries that need to be cleaned out:
These registries should be cleaned out after removal of past versions of SW.
Start\Run > Regedit > OK
Then go remove the following :
HKEY_Current_User\Software\SolidWorks
HKEY_ Local_Machine\Software\Solidworks
HKEY_ Local_Machine\Software\Solidworks Corporation
If some of these settings are not there that's fine as the Uninstall took them away.
Rip
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I hear that designmr...
Also, Companies are notorious for promising IT departments more budgeted money 'next year'...
Next year comes…Hello!!! Budget cuts!! ...and guess what department usually gets the major ax works...IT.
You IT guys have my utmost respect for what you have to work through.....
Rip
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Spend an hour or two to do the job properly or spend hours upon hours of frustrating fixes and workarounds.
Which costs more?
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You are correct. I'm in IT. We go thru budget cuts every year.
Thanks.
Chris
SolidWorks 07 3.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 04-21-07)
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http://www.engatech.com/SWCleanUninstall.exe
And another to help keep things running smooth after installation;
http://www.engatech.com/SWSysClean_Installer.msi
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I am not sure if it is a SOLIDWORKS issue or HARDWARE now.
Current I am working on a large assembly, approx. 55 MB. The problem started with, I wanted to open the help file in Solid works. With this large assembly and its drawing open (another approx. 3 MB), I would get a message something like “NOT ENOUGH MEMORY to CONTINUE, CLOSE UP PROGRAMS FOR MORE MEMORY, HIT RETRY”, (only Outlook was open), well this basically will shut down Solid works. This seems to happen after a bit of work.
Other times I just can not open this file even after a re-boot. After another re-boot, I can open it and continue my work. I will just save after each one or two modifications.
There are other times, I will get the message, “CAN NOT SAVE FILE TYPE”, not sure what this means at all.
I did not have this problem when using SW 2006, only once 2007 was upgraded. All the files in my folders where converted before I used them.
We had someone else open this file on their computer and try and open the “HELP” file, no problem.
First we did a re-install (FIX) of Solid Works, it didn’t take care of the problem.
This Monday, our IT guy reformatted my hard drive, reinstalled windows and re-installed Solid Works. It seemed like everything was going well, then after about 1 hour of work, “NOT ENOUGH MEMORY”. I’ll re-boot the system about a dozen times per day.
The IT person ran the Dell diagnostic this morning on my computer, everything PASSED.
This assembly like I said is pretty big, with 3 configurations in it, is 2007 having problems with “configurations”? I was thinking of creating a copy of this assembly and taking out my configurations, but adding configurations makes this a more usage assembly at the drawing level.
Can a file be somewhat corrupt and still usable, if so, is there a way to verify a large assemblies integrity? It took too long to create this assembly I would hate to redo it.
I thought to ask you this, before we just assume it is now the hardware. Would hate to replace the computer and then still get this messages.
It’s very noticeable to me, as the day progresses that my computer is slowing down. Revolving this assembly and saving as the minutes go by take longer and longer.
THANKS..
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Pete
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Pete
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We did try it on another persons EXACT same computer, and it NEVER got pass 1.55GB, his available never hit zero.
So, the IT guy is going to bump me to 4GB of memory....
So, it looks like yes it is a large file, but my memory is not good. Heck the machine is only a couple month old..
stay tuned.
But does having CONFIGURATIONS in a large assembly cause a file to be larger?
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The boot.ini file is located in the root folder and will look something like;
CODE
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn /3GB
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Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
CAD Administrator
SW '07 SP2.0, Dell M90, Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM, nVidia 2500M
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog
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Also, if I go to 4GB, is there a switch for that also?
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Pete
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There is not another switch for when you have 4Gb RAM installed.
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I was able to open the file, delete the configurations. The task manager showed is was still up to 1.44GB....not a huge difference, considering how much work it would take to create separate modeels.....(by the way, I copied the original, too much work in this assembly.)
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You will still need to enable the /3GB switch to allow SW (or any other application) to access 3GB.
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From the information you have provided, the motherboard is not the problem. You have reached the memory limit of Windows file processing capability. If you are not having any other mobo related problems, the only things which will help are;
1) Make the files smaller.
2) Switch to a 64 bit OS and computer with more RAM.
3) Use the /3GB switch to increase the 32 bit OS memory limit.
Items 1 and 2 will consume time and $$$$, item 3 costs nothing and can be done in 30 seconds plus a reboot. Tough choice, eh?
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Not sure the Dell guy will know anything about this switch, but I will ask when he come today.
Thanks again CorBlimey
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Bradley
SolidWorks Premim 2007 x64 SP4.0
PDM Works, Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 5 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB, nVidia 3400
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Yes, what a memory. That is the reason I tried it today on my machine. It happened on another user here a month ago.
Bradley
SolidWorks Premim 2007 x64 SP4.0
PDM Works, Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 5 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB, nVidia 3400
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Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
CAD Administrator
SW '07 SP2.0, Dell M90, Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM, nVidia 2500M
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog
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But reading JMirisola......should I still mess with it.
Though, if I change it, I can always delete it also
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Jeff ... try adding the /3GB and /userva=2900 switches.
I wonder if the Core Duo CPUs need the little extra RAM allocation than the lone /3GB switch offers?