How large of an Assembly can SolidWorks Open? 1

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One of my users is having trouble opening what we think is a large assembly. The assembly on his computer takes 20 minutes to open. We had our VAR out here and he does not think this is a large SolidWorks assembly. We followed his suggestion to update all models to SolidWorks 2008. The user did this and still 20 minutes to open. He has talked to Catia about SolidWorks and the salesmen told him that is the number one reason people go to Catia, “Opening large assemblies and Catia is very stable”.

Do any of you open large assemblies? What are you times and do you always use lightweight?

Total number of components in 55555: 16692
Parts: 15466
Unique Part Documents: 1788
Unique Parts: 1716
Sub-assemblies: 1226
Unique Sub-assemblies: 459
Unique Sub-assembly Documents: 398
Maximum Depth: 6
Number of top level components: 358
Resolved components: 8886
Lightweight components: 0
Suppressed components: 7806
Number of top level mates: 543
Number of bodies: 8167

His computer spec’s are as follows:

SolidWorks Pro 2008 x64, SP3
PDMWorks Workgroup
SolidWorks BOM
HP xw8400 workstation Intel(R) Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz
6 GB RAM
Virtual memory 12000 MB
nVidia Quadro FX4500
Use SolidWorks BOM
e-mail is Lotus Notes


Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2008 x64, SP3.0
PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
Dell XPS Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 5 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB,
nVidia Quadro FX 3400
Use SolidWorks BOM
e-mail is Lotus Notes

 

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pdybeck,

Might you be able to disable the virtual memory settings to prevent windows/solidWorks paging the hard drive? [quote/]
I am opening the drawing right now and the memory is at 4.58 GB. Disabling the virtual memory settings did not help. I have 5 GB of ram.


Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2008 x64, SP3.0
PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
Dell XPS Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 5 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB,
nVidia Quadro FX 3400
Use SolidWorks BOM
e-mail is Lotus Notes