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SOLIDWORKS PERFORMANCE ISSUES

SOLIDWORKS PERFORMANCE ISSUES

SOLIDWORKS PERFORMANCE ISSUES

(OP)
We are using SW2004 and have assemblies of rather simple components plates, brackets, tubing etc, no swept or lofted parts, no castings, molds etc.  Normal assmeblies will have less than 500 parts including fasteners.  Our machines are dual Zeon 2.4 Ghz, 1 mb ram, scsi hard drives with Quadro 4 750 video cards.  Even when we have the models on our local drives this size assy seems to be brought to a crawl, any thoughts on what we need to do, I just created a drawing file and it will take 3-5 minutes to do a save as a dwg file and map the layer entities.  Is this normal.

Thanks in advance.

RE: SOLIDWORKS PERFORMANCE ISSUES

Doesn't sound too normal.

The dual processors won't help with speed.  It sounds like you have "simple" parts, but do you have a lot of helix-based features (modeled threads), in-context relations, or multiple configurations?  All of these can attribute to slow performance.

Also ensure you have the latest graphics card drivers for your  OS and SW04.

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RE: SOLIDWORKS PERFORMANCE ISSUES

"1 mb RAM" may be the problem.
Should have 2 gig.
As SBaugh always suggested, clean out your temp folder. It may help. Also make sure you are running the correct driver version for your video card. See SolidWorks.com.

RE: SOLIDWORKS PERFORMANCE ISSUES

(OP)
What temp file are you talking about?

RE: SOLIDWORKS PERFORMANCE ISSUES

FAQ559-884

from (the City of) Barrie, Ontario.

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RE: SOLIDWORKS PERFORMANCE ISSUES

thanks CorBlimeyLimey. Tap90291, follow the FAQ.

RE: SOLIDWORKS PERFORMANCE ISSUES

tap90291
You mentioned SCSI drives, what RAID array are you running? I don't know much about them but have read that they can actually slow things down if not properly configured.

Are you running an anti-virus with "auto-protect" enabled? If so try disabling it temporarily & do a save to see if performance increases.

In the assemblies which took a long time to save, had all the parts been previously converted to SW2004?

from (the City of) Barrie, Ontario.

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.

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