SOLIDWORKS Compatibility with LOTUS NOTES
SOLIDWORKS Compatibility with LOTUS NOTES
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Does anyone have experience (good or bad) running Lotus Notes along with SolidWorks 2004? We have done everything we can to improve performace here, but still not satisfied compared to my home machine with half the horsepower. Our typical workstations are dual xeon 2ghz with 1 or 2 gig RDRAM, scsi hard drives, ghz network cards on dedicated server, and quadro pro or quadro fx video cards. Now I'm just grasping at straws.






RE: SOLIDWORKS Compatibility with LOTUS NOTES
We NEVER leave Notes running in background and expect to keep going without a crash. It has problems with all kinds of software anyway - heck it has problems with itself fer cryin out loud. Hands up everyone who hate Lotus @%#$%$* NO-I'm-not-going-to-play-right-TES!!
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Notes is not a very clean piece of code. We just bring it up when we need it and close it again. Now, I know that does not help if you want to monitor incoming email or reminders, but it is better than crashing all the time. I have had problem with it and several other softweare products including MS Office modules.
Not very helpful, but at least you know it ain't you.
I was - and he did. So at least I didn't get coal.....
RE: SOLIDWORKS Compatibility with LOTUS NOTES
RE: SOLIDWORKS Compatibility with LOTUS NOTES
No matter where I go.........there I am!
RE: SOLIDWORKS Compatibility with LOTUS NOTES
RE: SOLIDWORKS Compatibility with LOTUS NOTES
RE: SOLIDWORKS Compatibility with LOTUS NOTES
I ran Lotus notes a long time ago when SW was in infancy stage, and it was bad then. SW was still recommending 32 Megs of RAM then. I would have thought they would have improved it but I guess not.
Here is a solution:
Check your email in the morning, reboot your computer and start SW. At the end of the day close SW, open up Lotus Notes, check email and leave it till morning. Repeast process as needed.
or send nasty emails to your IT admin
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
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RE: SOLIDWORKS Compatibility with LOTUS NOTES
Unfortunately we can't switch. The entire Rockwell Collins company uses it and it is integrated into our ebusiness.
Lessons learned: Large company A want to standardize on an email/sheduling software. A division B gets the job of investigating and happens to be the only ones using Bloatus and has some anti-Gates nazis in the testing group. So they choose Bloatus and company A spends untold $$$ on multiple site licences. A couple of months later large company C buys division B from large company A. Company C uses Outlook and promptly forces division B into line. Meanwhile the remainder of large company A are stuck with Bloatus cos its too late and expensive to change. Do I sound a little bitter?
We do not seem to have problems as long as we close Lotus after using it. It does mean that we can't really use alarms, etc. Unfortunately I have to use Notes frequently during the day. The luxury of only checking email once a day is not possible for me. It seems to be best to not have Lotus up while any other major software is running which is when I suspect the gremlins get left caught up in the works. It least it is definitely best not to switch back and forth. I do sometimes bring up Lotus, use it and close it while SW is up, but never try to switch to and fro between them. It kinda harks back to single tasking DOS days, but there ya go.....
Some observations - anyone else noticed this? It seems like they got their nose out of joint after they finally got over pretending they were a competitor to Windows (duh?). It is a Windows application, so why can't they use the standard Windows programming tools and functions. But no they have to make their own icons, their own colors, their own eveything and make darned sure it LOOKS different. And then they have to put the close file icon somewhere completely different from EVERY other Windows application, so half the time you close the entire Notes and have to relaunch it again. Then things vary depending on what you are doing. Like the address book interface is different for creating an email and forwarding one!!!!
I guess the point of my whining is to warn off anyone looking to select a new email, etc. system. Go for Outlook. It ain't perfect but it's at least a 9 as opposed to a 4 max for Notes (and that's being generous). I use Outlook at home and my only beefs are that some interfaces are a bit ugly or obscure, but at least it works and does not screw up anything else.
I was - and he did. So at least I didn't get coal.....
RE: SOLIDWORKS Compatibility with LOTUS NOTES
Of course our Lotus Notes is like 3 years old, but 3 year old software ought to be worse at memory leakin'.
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Mr. Pickles
RE: SOLIDWORKS Compatibility with LOTUS NOTES
Alternatively, I have found another great litle app called 'Lotus Notes Notifier'. You can download it from: http://aw-soft.newmail.ru/lnn/. This app allows you to read and reply to email without ever opening lotus notes.
Using either of these apps allows you to use Solidworks and still be notified of incoming mail (and also to use alarms and reminders) without the need to have memory-hungry Lotus Notes running as well.
Roller1
RE: SOLIDWORKS Compatibility with LOTUS NOTES
RE: SOLIDWORKS Compatibility with LOTUS NOTES
Is that a typo or is SP2 available for 2004?
RE: SOLIDWORKS Compatibility with LOTUS NOTES
RE: SOLIDWORKS Compatibility with LOTUS NOTES
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376