block text edit

[DigiBob]

Anyone have Solidworks crash when editing block text?

 

[ElectroMatt]

Yes, I have been plagued by crashes when pasting multiple lines of text into a new text block. I am just about ready to call my VAR about it.

I am pasting old revision notes from windows notepad into a text block in Solidworks 2004 SP3 and sometimes it will crash 2-3 times before it will allow me to paste it.

Anyone else experiencing this?

 

[ctopher]

I use to until I upgraded my video card and to SP3.0 a couple months ago.

 

[ElectroMatt]

I'm wondering just how much video card this hungry hippo of software is going to require before it works properly... I'm using an ELSA Synergy 2000 card which was on the approved list of video cards and I believe still is.

Is a $500+ card simply required to handle this software?

 

[ctopher]

I use a nVidia Quadro4 750XGL. I believe my company paid ~$200-300, but not sure. It was not 500. I have used other cards, but have had the best luck with this one.
I have also seen...one pc have certain fonts loaded and the SW user creates a dwg. Another user does not have the same fonts used on the dwg, then tries to edit them and crashes. Rare to see this, but have couple times.

 

[DigiBob]

I am using the NVida Quadro2 pro. Large assemblies are awfull slow also. I know someone who has the Dell M60 mobile workstation with the Nvida Quadro FX Go1000. He loaded the same model that would take me 2 mins to add a mate, and his was instantaneous (as it should be).

I also ran the performance monitor while working in this model and noticed that my processor graph never went beyond 50% while my ram barely moved. Does this mean graphics card is baring the brunt of the workload??


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