My suggestion is to insure that the machine is running as fast as it could run in the first place. Spyware, trojans, virus, background processes, network issues ... all of these can bog down a system pretty bad.
If your boss is willing to spend $7k-$10k, see if he is willing to :
Let you...
http://www.solidworks.com/pages/services/Training/apifundamentals.html
SolidWorks actually has a three day course in using the API. I have taken the class and it was excellent / well worth the time if you plan on doing anything beyond simply 'experimenting with / playing with' the API.
If you...
Log into the machine as a user with local system admin rights.
Disable your anti-virus software.
Insure you have enough drive space to install it (minimum of twice as much as the program will eventually use is a pretty good rule of thumb.)
Then attempt to install it.
That the issue is machine...
I think that using lofting to create your boat shell is the direction you should be going.
I would recommend the demo / training exercise in the SolidWorks manuals that have you creating a dish soap bottle (think of the bottle of Dawn or Ivory dish soap in the kitchen.) I don't have it right...
'Database replication' sounds incredibly appealing in theory, and it scary in practice. For the same reasons you don't try to have two 'live' copies of the same SolidWorks models on two different machines, you don't want to try and have two 'live' copies of the same database in two locations...
Just a thought - if the company encourages you to get the certification, pays for it, gives you the time to go take the test and you pass and feel good about yourself, secure in your abilities, and happy to be working for a company that promotes your professional growth ... doesn't the company...
ctopher - I highly recommend installing it on a completely different machine, not using it on any of your production model work (copies are ok, just nothing you haven't got backed up on CD) because in the past you couldn't back rev your models (I don't know for a fact that you can or can't with...
I would suggest contacting your VAR and asking if they have available for purchase the materials that are used in the training classes for SolidWorks. Perhaps imply that you want to go through them before attending class in order to get a head start - and give serious thought to attending the...
To expound a little bit on what JNR said, and without completely disagreeing with RawHeadRex I wish to add that I have seen several other implementations using other PDM packages in sort of how I envision you will be using PDM/Works and SmarTeam - the larger package (SmarTeam in this case) as...
Naturally I would hold any package to that gold standard and do all of the things I listed as due diligence - I didn't mean to single any package out for scrutiny. It's not like lives are at stake here - my data is much more important than that :-)
I tried to look up Conisio, couldn't find them listed under the SolidWorks Gold Partners - are they not a Gold Partner?
I also searched the online sites for MCADCafe, CAD Digest, and Cadalyst magazines for Conisio, came up completely dry.
Were they at SolidWorks World in Boston this year?
I...
Re: tluxon -
http://www.synergis-adept.com/
The bottom link on that page is to a page describing their Adept-SolidWorks Integration and to their Gold Certification logo.
http://www.solidworks.com/pages/partners/PartnerDetails.html?ID=1210
SolidWorks also lists them here as a Gold Partner.
Synergis Adept will allow you to map any of the custom properties including the system properties (first tab on the properties dialog - Title, Author, Keywords, etc...), the build in custom properties (Checked by, Client, etc...) as well as any custom properties you add yourself (Color...
Look into Synergis Adept.
They were at SolidWorks World in Vegas.
It is a fairly inexpensive document management package that will handle this for you - you check out the parts of the assembly you are responsible for editing, it makes reference (read only) copies of the parts necessary to...
