Solidworks Crashes
Solidworks Crashes
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Here at work we have 5 cpus running Solidworks 2010 SP0. All installed the same way, and all worked at one point in time. Recently one of them decided to start crashing when opening a sldrw. It will open all models and assemblies fine. But when making a drawing or opening one it will crash. I've done a full clean install, deleted registry key and all. Please help!!!
Windows XP SP3
Intel Xeon 5140 @ 2.33GHz
2 GB RAM
Solidworks 2010 SP0
Windows XP SP3
Intel Xeon 5140 @ 2.33GHz
2 GB RAM
Solidworks 2010 SP0






RE: Solidworks Crashes
You need more RAM also.
Chris
SolidWorks 09 SP4.1
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SolidWorks Legion
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Solidworks crashes on any drawings. Whether it be a new drawing created from a simple part or opening a drawing from a previous simple part. Anytime i try to open or make a drawing it crashes and gives me the "restart solidworks" prompt box.
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Chris
SolidWorks 09 SP4.1
ctopher's home
SolidWorks Legion
RE: Solidworks Crashes
RE: Solidworks Crashes
Are you even considering that you could be starting to see the signs of hardware failure on the computer having problems? It does happen.....
Could be any bit of the hardware on that particular computer.
You have bottom of the barrel graphics and not near enough memory to be running SolidWorks.
You could be suffering from power supply failure, video card failure, memory failure, etc....
Swap the video card out between computers first.
Get yourself 2 more gigs of memory and real graphics cards. They are cheap....
Cheers,
Anna Wood
Core i7 EE965, FirePro V8700, 12 Gb RAM, OCZ Vertex 120 Gb SSD, Dell 3008WFP 30" Monitor
SW2010 SP2.1, Windows 7 x64
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RE: Solidworks Crashes
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Were you able to find a solution to this problem? We have a machine here that worked fine on SW2009 and now we upgraded it to SW2010 SP2.1 and now it will not open any drawings. It has a certified video card and the latest driver along with 3gb of ram.
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On first install would open existing part files but not allow new part file creation (would crash with restart message). Checking Options/File Location I reversed the search order so the Tutorial directory was on the top. Now I could open existing and new part files. I can open existing and new assembly files. I cannot open new or existing drawing files (crashes with restart message). I did a clean re-install with all registries deleted and all anti-virus software off and ALL Solid Works Directories erased and still the same problem with the drawing files. I noticed in the File/New dialogue box (in advanced mode) three tabs existed, Templates, old, Tutorial. I made the old tab by copying the original Template tab templates which only had two templates in it. I copied the Tutorial templates into the Templates folder to fix the inability to open new part files "THE FIRST TIME I INSTALLED SW". So a clean re-install is not all that clean. I think Jaredp's situation indicates it is not a graphics card or memory issue.
Justin8208 you mentioned "Recently one of them decided to start crashing" did you make any changes to this machine or the SW's software?
RE: Solidworks Crashes
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If the Part Assembly and Drawing .+++dot paths are pointing to existing locations and that the option Always use these templates is not selected.
In addition to making SolidWorks uninstall Cleanly SolidWorks should be able to find the files from previous installation and put them in the 2010 installation default location or prompt for you to choose the desired folder.
Michael
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Justin8208: in case your still listening. You said "I put the tutorial files back and pointed solidworks to them"
Which tutorial files? Where exactly did you put them? What option in solidworks did you point to them? Where did you point? And was the path that did the pointing at the top middle end (or where) in the list of paths?
I have a feeling this is a wild goose chase but you never know. Did you do anything else, other then what you have mentioned, that may have made it now not crash???
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I have a solution that worked on the two machines I had exhibiting the crash when opening drawing files. I should thank John C who passed me to Tim R who along with Andy H passed me to Brent M of Solid Works who ... solved the problem.
It involved the environment variable windir. When I looked at this variable by checking the My Computer Properties Advanced Environment Variables System Variables window (near the bottom) it showed windir set to c:\windows
However in the Registry under:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment
the windir value is shown as %SystemRoot%
In the registry change this windir value to c:\windows
Reboot the machine and voila the problem should be solved!
Hope this works for you.
Apparently it is a Windows issue not a Solidworks issue as a similar failure occurs to other software packages.
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I'll remember to try this if we get another machine that does this again. We acutally ended up formating the hard drive and reinstalling windows on our problem machine. We now have Solidworks up and running again. Thanks for the update though.