Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
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It appears from a several other posts that I am not the only one finding miserable performance in Solidworks 2004 SP1.0, primarily in drawings. I have reproduced the poor performance on three different PCs trying to fix it. I discovered the problem on my 2.4 GHZ P4 (1 GB RAM) with its NVIDIA Geforce 5200 FX video. I figured the NVIDIA card was the problem. But I also have the problem on a similarly configured P3 running an Oxygen GVX1 video card (a Solidworks favorite card). Has anyone found an answer for this yet? I have tried software OpenGL and adjusting my video card performance settings to no avail.






RE: Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
I'm willing to bet it's not your video card at all. There have been several unexplained crashes on different machines do a wide range of task, here at work. And photoworks is full of little bugs. So most likely your problem is solidworks itself. The nice thing about the crashes, so far, is that we can log right back on with no problems and it's hasn't happened enough to be a big pain. Just had to make sure auto backup is backing up every 2 or 3 changes.
I'm also very bugged by help files listing things we are suppose to be able to do in Solidworks only to learn the program really, can't do it at all. (I found three of them already.)
Though I still think it's a better program then Pro-E I am still disappointed with this release and what could become a disturbing trend with solidworks.
RE: Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
If it does the problem is in the graphics card or the drivers.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

3DVision Technologies
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
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RE: Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
RE: Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
RE: Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
RE: Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
If your running slow try this - FAQ559-507
SW2004 runs circles around SW03 for me. I don't have but maybe 1 crash a week and sometimes none at all. I don't have many complaints about SW04.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

3DVision Technologies
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
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RE: Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
RE: Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
I did noy check it myself, and at this moment there is also no SPR 2.0 list available on the website of SW.
RE: Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
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RE: Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
Doesn't help if you are opening drawings of a large assy though, but is less frustrating when producing drawings.
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Regards
RE: Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
:)
RE: Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
when I deleted an old Excel BOM and putted a new one (SW BOM), (da.mn) my nervs exploaded when it worked with SP1 and with SP2 it inserted only 1 row with titles.
So, it seems reasonable to wait until SP3.
easy guys, why we are running so fast? no time to think.
RE: Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
The only info is that it is a temporally removal.
RE: Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
The VAR's are not as informed as you might think sometimes. So don't blame the VAR's.
solidfriend,
Just because one thing doesn't work doesn't mean that the SP isn't still a good SP. SP0.0 is chopped full of bugs. SP1.0 fixed a lot of problems in SP0.0, but made some different ones. SP2.0 has addressed those plus others from SP0.0. I'm sure SP2.0 has created some of it's own.
Don't judge by one thing. It maybe more stable than all other SP's then again maybe it isn't. So if you don't want to be a guinea pig then wait on downloading for about a week to make sure there isn't some problems.
You can count on me having the Latest SP when it comes out everytime. I'm a guinea pig and I always have been. I accept the fact that if I download it that I may have some major problems when I DL it right away, then again I might not. I guess after doing it for so many years, it just doesn't bother me anymore, but I have had Good luck with it. Even if I have to reload SW.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
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RE: Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
I am a SW users since SW99 up to today. I am also a guinea pig for my company. I always test the latest SP, after I have read what this SP fixes.
Today I found already two repeatable mistakes in the Software. To my opinion SolidWorks is getting more and more bugs each time. The SW99 version was very stable (and lacked a lot of functionality as well) Stability was one of the reasons people choose for SolidWorks.
Today I work at a company where the engineering department creates big assemblies and 2D drawings. As the most experienced user I get a lot of problems daily. Some of them are user error, but more and more it is the software. For example, my company did not upgrade yet to 2004. I am the only user trying it.
My supplier told me to install SP 2.0 because I did not use 2004 since Beta3 version. Normally I would first see what the problems are.
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RE: Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
Mig26, what means this, is it a plain as SU-27?
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RE: Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
"Please note: SolidWorks Service Pack 2.0 has been temporarily removed from the web to correct an issue with the PDF translator (SPR 201165)."
It's really annoying (it's not only with SW) the fact that every SP brings new bugs.
I wonder about organization and quality assurance that software companies use to develop their products and products revisions. It's something like seling a car with a project revision in the gearbox causing the failure of the steeringwheel column - that doesn't make sence!
Regards
RE: Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
So, anyway, I fixed the problem by doing the following:
Tools -> Options -> System Options (tab) -> Performance
Then check the 'Use Software OpenGL' checkbox.
RE: Poor SW2004 Drawing Performance
GeForce FX 5900\5600\5200 = Yellow
OS Driver Date SW
Win2K 6.14.10.5672 05/11/2004 2004
WinXP 6.14.10.5672 05/11/2004 2004
Win2K 6.14.10.4403 08/28/2003 2004
WinXP 6.14.10.4403 08/28/2003 2004
see - http://www.solidworks.com/pages/services/videocardtesting.html - and get an approved card. Then you can get better performance and yoru CPU will work on calcualations instead of both video and calcs.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
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