This morning I came into work and opened my assembly, and my virtual parts are all suppressed. It can't find the files. I did a search on my whole hard drive and can't find them. I use the virtual parts mainly for construction surfaces and I break all the external references. They have been...
We have this same problem, but because we reorder the BOM it would take a lot of time to delete and readd it. Whats been working for us is if I click on the BOM and then go over to my Property Manager and click on Table Properties. We then hit the check mark at the top and do a rebuild. For some...
If I understand what your saying you can do it using a design table. We construct a lot of our blocks in metric and then round them up to the nearest 1/4" for getting out rough stock. In the excel window use the ceiling command. I have one cell that is the dimension value in mm, another cell...
What video card are using and what driver? I just got a new computer also and might have that problem. Haven't got to test it much as I have been busy setting all the stuff up. Thanks
Jason Forward
Solidworks 2006 sp3.0
P4 3.0 Ghz 2.0Gb Ram
Quadro FX500
XP Sp 2.0
No, They are not detached. Also my template files are under 500 Kb. I guess I am at a loss as to why they will be working great and then all off a sudden the drawing just halts. I am diagnosing every step I use to create a drawing to see if there is something I can change or a work around. I...
I did check out all those forums. My concern is not really with file size. I can buy more hard drives. The thing I can't buy is more time. When it takes 20 minutes to rebuild a drawing thats pretty bad. I am buying as good a computer as most anyone has so I hope that helps. I guess i have to buy...
The drawing has 3 sheets. The first sheet has the main design with about 8 views on it. These include main views sections and alternate position views. The second sheet has one Iso view with an attached BOM. The third sheet has about 15-20 views of individual pin components that are dimensioned...
I just placed an order for a new cad station. Pretty much as High end as I could go. The specs are
AMD Fx-60
XP-64
4.0 GB Ram
Quadro FX-3400
2 WD SATAII 250 Gb Hard Drives
24" Wide screen monitor
I am hoping this will help a lot. If it doesn't I am sure I will hear about it. Most of the things...
I have to go into drawings that I designed about a month ago and update them. The problem is it is taking forever to open them, rebuild them, or change them. I looked at the file size and one of them is up to 200Mb for 20Mb when I started the change. I originally designed them in v6 2.0 and am...
Thanks guys.
Jeff thats what makes these decisions somewhat difficult. If I am understanding the reviews correctly. I would choose the fastest single core chip for just running Solidworks. However, I am constantly running AV, FW, Outlook, Solidworks, Viewer, Internet Explorer and a bunch of...
I know a lot of you have purchased new AMD boxes. Are any of you running a Pentium D or know how it rates with the AMD chip. I am currently getting an AMD box quoted by our computer builder with all the bells and whistles. He normally builds Pentium 4 computers and asked why I didn't want to use...
We also have this same issue. We are using a Quadro fx500 card with the proper drivers. We have reinstalled, repaired, and modified our installation. We also have issues where all our surfaces "blow up" in shaded mode. If you go to wireframe it looks fine. We usually continue to work on the...
I have been crashing quite often as well. I was running 5.0 SP5 and rarely crashed at all. I also did a clean install. I have a Quadro FX500 with the approved driver but am going to run the software opengl to see if that helps. It is really getting annoying. I have been crashing after an array...
I just started to notice that a lot of my part files are huge. Some of my assembly files are big also. If I do a save as to a different name they get up to 10 times smaller. Why is this? Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better way to get them back smaller again w/o opening them all and...
