Is this a Win 7 issue? - View when returning to SolidWorks

[FreddyB]

Hi,

Like most users, I usually have more programs than just SolidWorks open. I am greatly irritated that if I have been looking at another application, when I return to Solidworks I can never get back to the view I want straight away. I'll try to explain further;

So, I have SWX running and have say, 2 part files and 2 assemblies open. I select my mail client or Firefox and then want to get back to SolidWorks. I hover the cursor over SolidWorks in the task bar. A small icon for each of the parts and assemblies open in Solidworks pops up so it's easy to select the one I want to go to. Well, that's the issue; In this example, I have 2 part files and 2 assemblies so that should mean 4 icons above the task bar. But there isn't, there is only 3!! And it's rarely the window I want. All I can do is select one of them and then, when in SolidWorks again, go to WINDOW at the top and select the viewport I want from the drop down list. What should be a single step is always two.

Why are they not all there in the task bar??

Any suggestions?

 

[tgrimley]

How much RAM do you have? How much is free? They're probably paging out while you do other things. Do you see a big page file hit in resource monitor when you return to Solidworks?

 

[FreddyB]

Just had a good look. 8Gb installed and looking at the resourse monitors, there is more than 5Gb free and no particular surge in useage when going back to SWX.

 

[JMirisola]

I've seen the same thing on the rare occasion that I use the icons to go back to SolidWorks. I'm more of an 'alt+tab' kind of switcher between programs, followed by 'ctrl+tab' if the part I want isn't displayed. What I have also noticed is that the part that isn't showing is the one that is active if you 'alt+tab' back into SolidWorks.

Jeff Mirisola
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