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    SW crashing with large assy's

    I had the same problems with my large assemblies. Solidworks crashed often or took over an hour to open them. I also was using SW2004 SP4.2. When I used my machine at home though one evening I noticed the problems were not there. At home I was using SP3.0. I have visited my VAR with my data who...
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    SW Certification

    Glad you asked that initial question 'ctopher'. I am in exactly the same situation, my company will not pay and think its only for my own good and not theirs. I am going to do it anyway just for the challenge and to see where it leads. There are currently only 7 Certified Professionals in...
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    New computer - Win2000 or WinXP?

    I had quite a few problems with solidWorks on a computer running Win2K. I also updated to a new computer running WinXP Pro and the problems seem to have dissappeared. Coincidence maybe, but SolidWorks is running the best it ever has. Steve
  4. swhitey

    Printer Compatability

    The quality of print i'm getting from the 450C is much worse than the rest of you seem to get. 2 HP engineers have not been able to make the quality any better though so i guess i'll just go ahead with the HP 500. Anyone outhere using one that can comment on the quality of colour printing?
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    Printer Compatability

    Is there anyone out there that is currently using a HP Designjet 500 printer with SolidWorks. Im considering buying one but need to be 99.9% sure that when printing a model/drawing in full colour that it does actually print a solid colour rather than a series of coloured dots that are easily...
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    Hardware spec for large assemblies

    SBaugh Sorry if i didn't make it clear, but the resellers suggestion is in the body of my first message
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    Hardware spec for large assemblies

    Is there anybody out there building assemblies successfully with around 5000 parts or more?. If yes what hardware are you using? Ideally i want to be able to go up to in excess of 10000 parts. My Solidworks supplier advises me that the following hardware spec will be sufficient. 2.5GHz Pentium...

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