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Solidworks Freezes when I click "File"
- Thread starter dfarris
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razzendahcuben
Mechanical
Does it freeze permanently and then crash or does it just freeze for a few seconds?
This was a problem in an earlier service pack on some systems; have you upgraded to the latest SP?
You might also try resetting your registry. Go to Start-->Run, type regedit. Located HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\Solidworks
Rclick and rename to Solidworks_ or something like that.
Try opening SW back up and see if the problem persists.
Finally you can try reinstalling.
This was a problem in an earlier service pack on some systems; have you upgraded to the latest SP?
You might also try resetting your registry. Go to Start-->Run, type regedit. Located HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\Solidworks
Rclick and rename to Solidworks_ or something like that.
Try opening SW back up and see if the problem persists.
Finally you can try reinstalling.
This was an issue in early SP's of SW2009.
To fix you need to go to Control Panel > Ease of Access > Ease of Access Center > Make the keyboard easier to use > Check the box for 'Underline keyboard shortcuts and access keys'.
This is in Vista. I haven't had the issue in Windows 7.
Cheers,
Anna Wood
Anna Built Workstation, Core i7 EE965, FirePro V8700, 12 gigs of RAM, OCZ Vertex 120 Gig SSD
SW2009 SP3.0, Windows 7 RC1
To fix you need to go to Control Panel > Ease of Access > Ease of Access Center > Make the keyboard easier to use > Check the box for 'Underline keyboard shortcuts and access keys'.
This is in Vista. I haven't had the issue in Windows 7.
Cheers,
Anna Wood
Anna Built Workstation, Core i7 EE965, FirePro V8700, 12 gigs of RAM, OCZ Vertex 120 Gig SSD
SW2009 SP3.0, Windows 7 RC1
In Commands > Flyout Toolbars the Standards flyout icon has most of the icons included on the Standard toolbar. I've listed the Flyout icons below that correspond to the File Menu icons. I still believe that this issue is related to not only the Alt underscores which usually cause issues and the File Previews that show when recent files are picked or hovered on when menu is open.
New>
New - Part, Assembly, Drawing
Make New Drawing from Part/Assembly
Make New Assembly from Part/Assembly
Open>
Open
Browse recent documents
Save>
Save
Save As
Save All
Print>
Print
Print Preview
Page Setup
Close
For any of the other menu items the ones without icons cannot be shown on a toolbar because they don't have a corresponding buttons.
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Find References
Publish to 3dvia
Pack and Go
Properties
For these you can assign keyboard shortcuts like
Alt+K for pacK&go
Alt+F for Find References
CTRL+Enter for File Properties or use the Custom Properties tab of the Task pane instead.
Michael
New>
New - Part, Assembly, Drawing
Make New Drawing from Part/Assembly
Make New Assembly from Part/Assembly
Open>
Open
Browse recent documents
Save>
Save
Save As
Save All
Print>
Print Preview
Page Setup
Close
For any of the other menu items the ones without icons cannot be shown on a toolbar because they don't have a corresponding buttons.
-Not available-
Find References
Publish to 3dvia
Pack and Go
Properties
For these you can assign keyboard shortcuts like
Alt+K for pacK&go
Alt+F for Find References
CTRL+Enter for File Properties or use the Custom Properties tab of the Task pane instead.
Michael
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Probably not the cause in your case, but worth checking anyway. SW doesn't handle files it cannot find very well or indeed consistantly; so if a file has been opened, saved as something else and the original deleted, or if a file has been opened over a network, from a computer that isn't running when you click on the File tab or press the "R" key, more often than not, it will stop responding, occasionally, it will come up with a suitable error message after a few minutes and very rarely it will work as you would wish and say it cannot find the file after a few seconds!
Trevor Clarke. (R & D) Scientific Instruments.Somerset. UK
SW2009x64 SP4.1 Intel Core i7 2.94Ghz, 12Gb Ram, NVIDIA Quadro FX3700 Driver: 6.14.11.9100
SW2009x64 SP4.1 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.17Ghz, 8Gb Ram NVIDIA Quadro FX3700 Driver: 6.14.11.9100
dfarris,
Have you tried my suggestion? I bet it will work for you if you haven't tried it yet.
Cheers,
Anna Wood
Anna Built Workstation, Core i7 EE965, FirePro V8700, 12 gigs of RAM, OCZ Vertex 120 Gig SSD
SW2010 SP0, Windows 7
Have you tried my suggestion? I bet it will work for you if you haven't tried it yet.
Cheers,
Anna Wood
Anna Built Workstation, Core i7 EE965, FirePro V8700, 12 gigs of RAM, OCZ Vertex 120 Gig SSD
SW2010 SP0, Windows 7
- Thread starter
- #12
dfarris,
It is in the same place the Ease of Access area in the Control Panel.
Cheers,
Anna Wood
Anna Built Workstation, Core i7 EE965, FirePro V8700, 12 gigs of RAM, OCZ Vertex 120 Gig SSD
SW2010 SP0, Windows 7
It is in the same place the Ease of Access area in the Control Panel.
Cheers,
Anna Wood
Anna Built Workstation, Core i7 EE965, FirePro V8700, 12 gigs of RAM, OCZ Vertex 120 Gig SSD
SW2010 SP0, Windows 7
CorBlimeyLimey
Mechanical
In XP the "Ease of Access" was called "Accessibility Options"
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