hourglass monitoring
hourglass monitoring
(OP)
If you are migrating to 3D from a 2D system on the same pc's you are in for some serious hourglass watching.
We found a program that helped us take advantage of that for both resource management and evaluating hardware upgrades before rolling out the upgrades to all the CAD stations. It's called wait-watcher pro.
www.wait-watcher.com
We found a program that helped us take advantage of that for both resource management and evaluating hardware upgrades before rolling out the upgrades to all the CAD stations. It's called wait-watcher pro.
www.wait-watcher.com






RE: hourglass monitoring
MadMango
"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities."
Have you read FAQ731-376 to make the best use of Eng-Tips Forums?
RE: hourglass monitoring
To compound the problems, solidworks was installed onto a variety of pc's that had been running AutoCad 14 or LT, some were NT4 (sp6) and some windows 98 platforms. There was a mixture of 128Mb and 256Mb RAM and a variety of graphics cards. Ideally we could have started off with completely new machines but the finance wouldn't allow it.
Everything got upgraded eventually but knowing what to upgrade on each machine to make the most difference was where this benchmark of using the hourglass came in.
RE: hourglass monitoring
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

3DVision Technologies
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
When in doubt, always check the help
RE: hourglass monitoring
3/4 of all the Spam produced goes to Hawaii - shame that's not true of SPAM also.......
RE: hourglass monitoring
RE: hourglass monitoring
Both my home boxes are new boxes, running Win2k/WinXP, and my work box has *no problem* keeping up with them: apparently both the quality of the components, and the selection of the components with SW in mind, makes this 'old' SW box as efficient as a new, off-the-shelf speedster.
RE: hourglass monitoring
I see slowdowns when I open large!! assembly drawings, but that's about it. I run pretty stable considering all the bugs that come through me here from all our customers.
Purchasing the most powerful PC well work and will last longer than these older machines will, but the price will hurt when you buy the best. It's better to take the step or two down. Still follow my post above on the hardware that should be consider when buying
Rocheey,
I hope your aware of SW customer bulletin about Windows NT4. SW cannot guarntee the compatibilty of SP' in SW03 after MS stops support of WinNT4. Even though SW still supports Win NT4. Which MS stopped support in June of this year.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

3DVision Technologies
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
When in doubt, always check the help