help!! My Solid stucks all of a sudden!
help!! My Solid stucks all of a sudden!
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Hi, I have a 2007 version that used to work just great untill a few weeks ago, I was away and haven't opened it in a while, and today I finally do, and the darn thing keeps stucking! The program opens, the file opens, but as soon as I try, say, to rotate the view, it stucks and it takes a few long seconds to rotate. The next attempt - the same. Every action, such as opening a sketch for editing, or whatever I try, stucks and takes loads of time. It even made my screen go black, like the screen suddenly shut down without me even touching it. What on earth is going on?? All other programs work just fine. I've tried restarting the computer, I've uninstalled and re-installed the Solidworks, nothing helps! I'm going nuts. Does anyone know what could it be?






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FAQ559-1058: How do I set the Software OpenGL option in SW and turn the Hardware Acceleration to "None"?
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Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
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Though kill me if I understand how the "use software OpenGl" option got unchecked all of a sudden, 'cause as I said, the program worked just fine the last time I used it, and nobody but me works on the Solidworks. Damn! I wasted a whole day's work because of a rotten, little unchecked box.
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Thanks!
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so what does switching it to NONE do? I checked the box, hopefully that gives me some stability, but I don't get why I'd shut off acceleration? Is that going to make my solidworks projects even slower??
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Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog
Dell M90, Core2 Duo
4GB RAM
Nvidia 3500M
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Follow FAQ559-1194: How Do I install New drivers for my Video Card? when re-installing.
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Unchecked. If you're running an approved driver, you don't want OpenGL overriding it.
As for your speed issues, are you opening up your files locally or across the network? Also, did you uninstall the old driver then reinstall the new driver? Look in the FAQ area (located at the top of the page) to see how to properly install a new driver.
Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog
Dell M90, Core2 Duo
4GB RAM
Nvidia 3500M
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SOLID WORKS 2007 SP4 Freezes CONSTANTLY! And generally sucks worse than ever. This is an 11,000 computer. SW RX says everthing is fine. I've achieved the goal of faster rendering times. But now I can't model jack squat without saving every 3 seconds out of fear of the software locking up and not responding...Which it does 10-15 times a day. MY WONDERFUL resellers in IOWA answer to all of this??? REINSTALL WINDOWS naturally. Should be getting 2008 in the mail soon. Won't load it for awhile out of fear of what whole new batch on BS problems that will cause.
In short. 08 in the last I care to see out of Solidworks in my lifetime, and I hope they go bankrupt.
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Chris
SolidWorks 07 4.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 10-07-07)
ctopher's blog
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Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog
Dell M90, Core2 Duo
4GB RAM
Nvidia 3500M
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I've opened across the network from PDM and I've worked on files locally, I constantly have the same problem no matter which scenario. For months everything was fine so I'm doubting it's me in this particular problem because up until 2 weeks ago, everything ran smoothly.
Right in the middle of whatever I'm working on, solidworks will stop responding then vanish. PDM vanishes. Sometimes I get the RESTART SOLIDWORKS popup, many times it all just 'goes away' with no reason or error just poof.
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A lot of times it's the hardware and/or settings.
I suggest call your VAR ... WITH your IT person on the phone with you.
Chris
SolidWorks 07 4.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 10-07-07)
ctopher's blog
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Arrange for someone who knows how to set-up and use SW properly to visit your company. I can almost guarantee that if they were to install all software on your machine from scratch, THEY would have no problems running SW.
The only proviso I have, is if you have defective SW installation CDs/DVD.
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