Solidworks 2005 speed

[davidinindy]

Has anyone else noticed Solidworks 2005 being slower than 04? I brought up a copy of a file that was created in 04, and it seems to take longer for 2005 to perform operations. Just selecting a face to sketch on is slow. I'm speaking about the time it takes between selecting it, and when it turns it a color as being selected.
Is there a setting I may need to adjust?

 

[SBaugh]

Have you saved the file as SW05 file already? have you made sure all yoru drivers (Especially video) is updated to the required driver at the SW website?

Also check Imagine Quality

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[ctopher]

I am using it on a laptop and have not seen any poor performance. Same as 04.

 

[davidinindy]

I checked the drivers... We're good there.
I didn't have the part saved in 2005. I think that may have been the problem. I just opened it, and started playing around, then exited without saving it. After saving the files, it seems to be fine.
Thanks a lot guys.

 

[Mindnumb]

I have had issues with speed since 2003 wersion.
I found 2001+ to be the ultimate speed demon, it was a pleasure to work with, but I had a lot of stabiliti problems.

2001+ on a athlon 1400, 768 ram with a softquadro geforce2 was faster than 2003 on a pentium 4 3ghz with 2 gigs of ram and a quadro fx 1000 ( Dell workstation)

I find 2004 slower than 2003, and 2005 slower than 2004.
lovely.

Especially piping is extremely slow, dropping in new komponents on the route is a pain, even with low complexity and low partnumber stuff.

With 2001+ I made a complete waterpurifying plant (approximately 1200 parts) in two days.

This I can only dream of now, more likely two weeks.

I dont know what it is, but have the rendering engine gone from opengl to directx ? this could maby explain some stuff.

making changes in the route takes so much time, i cant imagine why it should.

 

[djw2k3]

Hmmm,

I have just gone from 2001+ to 04 recently. I noticed a huge difference when building assemblies - ie the time taken to inset/alter mates etc. (All the fancy motions have ben turned off.)

 

[SBaugh]

I don't know what the heck you guys are seeing or (No offense) doing, because SW01+ to SW04 is always faster for me even between each full upgrade.

If you doing piping, your not making your route straight through say a Tee are you? Not telling how to do your job, but I have seen slow downs from the way models are designed, inculding piping. I have a customer that emails me his piping models all the time and this turned out to be a large cause of slow downs for them.

What kind of Fancy motions are you talking about, djw2k3?

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[ctopher]

My 2 cents, I see the same as Scott. All versions worked the same for me. Maybe soem users need to upgrade RAM or video cards, 04 is a little more demanding of memory.

 

[alexit]

We saw the brakes go on when moved to 2004. Usually wierd processor useage, lots of memory calls. We are replacing our hardware with more powerful stuff to get back to where we were...

 

[davidinindy]

I have not been using Solidworks as long as most of you, so can't comment on speed of any past versions besides SW04.
I believe the issue I had was just that I hadn't saved the file in 2005 before trying to work with it.
I have also not used 2005 for my daily workm because of the fear factor. I'll start using it after the first service pack comes out.

 

[HairyDave]

At the risk of incurring the wrath of the VARs on this board, I would have to say that there was a definate slow down going from 2003 to 2004, much more noticable than the one going from 2001+ to 2003. I really hope we don't see the same thing going to 2005.

 

[djw2k3]

Some mixed opinions here,

SB, there was only one feature ops - which was the mate animation.

Anyways I think half my problem has been wanting to do things the old way as in SW01+ and I have just discoverd the "Show Preview" toggle box which is now off - has helped - shoulda been my first stop ;-)

 

[davidinindy]

I've toggled the show preview box also.
Only problem with it off, in the case of filleting many surfaces, is that you don't know if you have a problem until you're done. Then you can't find where it's at. With the preview on, the preview won't show if there is a problem, but it slows the selection speed down. There needs to be a better way of pointing out a problem as you're selecting entities.
BTW, Who are the VARs here?

 

[Mindnumb]

Work procedures could of course be an issue... nobodys perfect, least of all me, but I think my workmethods have not canged so much since 2001+. Also, I think i have a very up to dat system, with 2 gigs of ram, a fast cpu and a proffessional grade graphics card ( fx1000) I have tried to install sw several times, disabling virus scanners an such
but not to much help.

What I notice thoug is that the longer I work on an assembly, the slower it gets. Rearranging components and pipes a couple of times, not adding any "new" features or components seems to slow things down. Maby its all in my head, I have not timed anything, but it feels like if I have to cange someting in an assembly, I might as well start over... I shall look into my work habits first tho, I am pretty much self thaught on this, so I am quite humble on that matter...

Scott: Straight trhoug tees ? I usually draw a line, puts a connection point on it and drops in the tee. This might not be the rigth way to do things ? I am not sure I understand... gonna try it with three connecting lines and se if it makes a differnce.

 

[SBaugh]

You have to stop your route at the connection point at the Tee, etc... You continue your route at the next connection point. You don't continue your route through the Tee itself.

If your assembly is slowing down while your working on it. Watch your Task manager RAM. Check your Virtual memory settings. This can make a difference. Also check out this link -

http://www.solidworks.com/swexpress/mar04/200403_techtip_02.cfm

- That link contains valuable information on setting up your Virtual memory.

Also you might not be running out RAM, but rather video RAM. I know your card is approved, but don't rule out the card entirely. Do check the drivers. I'm going to write and FAQ on how to do this today. When it gets approved I'll post the FAQ link.

I too, am completely self taught on SW. I have been teaching myself since late 95, early 96 of SW. Glad to always meet new Power users!

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[45Auto]

Just loaded SW2005 (was using SW2001 - instantaneous response to everything) on a 2 week old, high end PC. Ran slower than dirt. Wasn't a video problem, took about 4 seconds after a mouse click before anything happened. Tried everything I could think of. Loaded it on my old 2 year old, 2Ghz machine and it ran fine, same speed as SW2001. Not sure what the problem is.

 

[jimdogg]

With all of the new features on 2004 it is faster to model anyway.

I just hope that 2005 lives up to its rave reviews!

Jim
NZ

 

[SBaugh]

45Auto,

Did you fully uninstall SW01+ and clean your registry out or did you install SW directly over your SW01?

You should ALWAYS do a new install and never put it in the same folder as your previous version. If you did any that then uninstall, clean out the registry and resintall.

Please list specs for clarification to High end machine.

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