Projected view problem??

[frogsaregreen]

I am experiencing difficulties with some of our workstations. The problem being when you go to create a projected view within a large assembly drawing (500+ parts). The Solidworks crashes. My system works great but others are having this problem. We are all running the same systems: SW2003 SP3.1 Dell P4 2.4 Quadro4 750

Thanks
Jason

 

[MadMango]

How much memory are you running? What operating systems are you running?

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"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities."

 

[TheTick]

re: nVidia cards

I see you're running Quadros. With nVidia cards, you need to make sure you are using a driver from disk or download. The Windows-provided drivers won't cut it.

All this machinery making modern music can still be open hearted.

 

[frogsaregreen]

We are all running 1G on Windows XP. Our current driver version is 2.8.3.2

Best Regards,
Jason

 

[APPENG]

Jason

The reasons that Solidworks will crash are numerous...Most often (as our colleagues mentioned above) the reason is related to graphics cards/drivers.. however there are a number of other factors that can also contribute.
Seeing as you are running fine and the others are having the difficulties we need to isolate what is unique to your system as opposed to the ones that are crashing.

Disk fragmentation: Check on each computer and if necessary defrag the drives. (this should be done weekly)

Paging file settings: Do they have different paging file seetings than you do? Generally it should be set to 3-4x the size of physical RAM for a 1 G machine you should have 3000 - 4000Mb set aside for Pagin file.. and the Max and Min values should be the same.

Compare how much disk space you and they have on the drives where the OS and paging files are kept? If this gets low, bad things happen, including BSOD (blue screen of death). There should be a minimum of 200-300 MB’s on the system partition

Have you (or they) cleaned their temp directory lately?

Do they have other devices installed on their systems that you do not, (they may have drivers that could cause a conflict).

Do they have any add-ins turned on that you do not use, if so try the same thing with the add-ins turned off and see if it makes a difference on their system.

Are all of you accessing files over the network? Or are you working on a local copy while the other are networking?

Are you all on the same service pack of WINDOWS? I see that you all have SP3.1 for SolidWorks....

has anyone tinkered with the registry on any one or all of the machines?


Like I was saying.... if one system works, you need to find out what the differences are between them hardware,software, registry, unique software applications installed, disk space, disk "health", system settings..etc.

Let me know what you find




Regards,
Jon
jgbena@yahoo.com

 

[APPENG]

OH.. one more thing.. since you are talking about large assemblies...

Under Tools/Options

look under performance on your system, and make a note of the settings YOU have...

also under Large assembly mode.. make a note of your settings in that area too...

then see if the other system match your settings.. if not update them and test.



Regards,
Jon
jgbena@yahoo.com

 

[SBaugh]

One other thing to add here is the network. If the files are being open over a network, try coping them to a local drive and see if that crashes the system. If SW doesn't crash the problem may reside in the network.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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When in doubt, always check the help

 

[APPENG]

Thanks Scotty,

Thats what I was trying to say when I mentioned the network thing.. but I forgot to elaborate on that little detail!!

Regards,
Jon
jgbena@yahoo.com

 

[SBaugh]

I'll let the Scotty slip by this time .

I missed the part of your post on Networks.

Best Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376
When in doubt, always check the help

 

[APPENG]

Sorry.... Im an old trekkie.. couldn't resist the "scotty"

Regards,
Jon
jgbena@yahoo.com

 

[frogsaregreen]

We were able to fix the problem. I was able to logon to my co-workers computer and solidworks worked. Our computer guys concluded that his personal profile had somehow changed. They erased his profile and created a new one. This fixed the problem.

Thanks everyone,
Jason

 

[APPENG]

I figured it had to be something like that

Glad you got it working

Jon

Regards,
Jon
jgbena@yahoo.com