Slow regeneration or loading

[Silver92b]

We had decided to migrate from Pro Engineer to Solid works and started implementing the move. We just started using Solid Works and we noticed that complicated solid models with large numbers of features (a hollow cylinder with 240 holes w/c-bores) take an unusually long time to load or regenerate compared to ProE. This is very disturbing and we are wondering if we've made a mistake by changing from ProE. Could there be some solution for this issue?

Thanks

 

[Silver92b]

OK, here's the latest update. We reinstalled SW in our machines. I followed instructions as per your valuable advise .. I had to hack my computer to get into the registry, but I managed to get all references to SW and Edrawings after uninstalling them with the windows control panel.
The good news is that the programs are running much better and faster now.
I checked my machine and it has a Xeon 3.06 GHz and 1.5 GB of ram and has the Nvidia Quadro4 980 XGL withe the latest drivers. I'm running WinXP professional with whatever service pack was available the last time our IT guys were here...
My coleague's machine is older and has the 2.0 GHz, with 1.0 GB ram. Although he has the same video card I have, he is running with Win2K....

SW is still a little clunky compared with WF3.0 in some respects, but we are going to keep it. We might have some issues with our network policies and there might be processes running that we know nothing about and are using resources, but we can't do much about that now

Thanks to everyone for your help and your patience. I'm sure you'll hear from me again as I will undoubtedly need more help in the future

Thanks again

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

That's great news. Thanks for the feed back.


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[CorBlimeyLimey]

Take note that Win2K will not be supported for SW2007, so you will likely need to upgrade the OS on your colleagues computer.

http://www.solidworks.com/pages/services/SystemRequirements.html?PID=252

Also with larger files or assys, the /3GB switch will also help performance.

http://www.panoramafactory.com/discus/messages/17/313.html?1057432320

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[J-C]

Another thing I noticed when someone mentioned your model saved in wireframe mode. Go to "View/Display/ and toggle on "Draft Quality viewing (something like that)" This should speed up wireframe or hidden line viewing.

If you don't see the option...you may have to customize (bottom of menu) to add it.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2