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Kick-ass computer = slow SolidWorks

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enginerd1959

Industrial
Oct 1, 2002
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My company recently upgraded me to a new fast workstation:
[ul]
[li]Xenon 3.7 GHz CPU[/li]
[li]32GB memory[/li]
[li]Nvidia Quadro K2000 video card[/li]
[li]750 GB HDD[/li]
[li]Windows 7[/li]
[/ul]

The odd thing is it now takes over 10x longer to load assemblies as my old computer, unless I unplug or disable the network connection.

For example, here are the load times for a 100-part assembly:
Network drive: 211 seconds
C: drive (network enabled): 170 seconds
C: drive (network disabled): 6 seconds

I understand how a slow network can increase the load times, but why is loading from my local drive hampered by the mere existence of a network?

I've been a SWX user for over 7 years and have checked all the usual optimization settings.

Any suggestions?
 
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I forgot to mention I'm running SolidWorks 2014 Premium x64 Edition, SP 3.0
 
My guess is that your search paths were changed / reordered as part of installing SW on the new machine and it is looking for all of the files on a bunch of network folders before it looks for them on your hard drive.

Eric
 
Try setting a reference path to the server root drive or if you keep your files in a specific location add that to the reference path... its found in Tools\options\System Options\File location.

Kind regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP [pc2]
Gryphon Environmental
"If it's not broke, Don't fix it!"
faq731-376
 
The fix was under TOOLS, OPTIONS, SYSTEM OPTIONS, EXTERNAL REFERENCES. I unchecked “Search file locations for external references”.

That one fix made assemblies load 3 to 10 times faster.
 
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