Hi all,
I'm new to the forum. I'm an engineering student using Solidworksfor the first time. Unfortunately, I'm getting a lot of crashes. Itseems that I can work for a few hours at a time sometimes, but thenit will eventually crash and keep crashing sooner and sooner untilI can't even open a part before it goes down. Reinstallingsolidworks seems to have helped once, but I can't keep doing thatover and over just to get a day's work in.
So, does anyone have tips on how I could improve performance?
I know, the real answer is to get a better machine. I'm on astudent budget--I tried to get a solidworks-friendly machine when Ibought it, but I couldn't spend more than \$1000 and needed to meetsome other requirements. Taking the machine as a given, what elsemight help?
I'm using a Lenovo T61 laptop running Vista 32 Home Basic (anddual-booting Ubuntu Linux). It has 2GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2Duo CPU at 2.10 GHz. The graphics card is an nVIDIA Quadro NVS140M. The system is pretty clean because I prefer to use the UbuntuOS for email/web/music/etc. and only go over to the Vista side touse MS Office and Solidworks. I don't have any antivirus running (Iuse clamAv to scan periodically).
I'm using SW2008 SP2.1 on a license from my school (i.e. can'tupgrade or downgrade). I'm working with extremely simple parts forclass exercises for now--just a few extrudes and holes, nothingthat could be taxing the software. Watching the system monitorduring a crash, I don't seem to be anywhere near using all of myRAM. Trying the software graphics "safe mode" from SolidworksRXafter a crash didn't prevent an immediate subsequent crash. I can'timagine what is causing the trouble.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
WestonSolidworksAdministration
I'm new to the forum. I'm an engineering student using Solidworksfor the first time. Unfortunately, I'm getting a lot of crashes. Itseems that I can work for a few hours at a time sometimes, but thenit will eventually crash and keep crashing sooner and sooner untilI can't even open a part before it goes down. Reinstallingsolidworks seems to have helped once, but I can't keep doing thatover and over just to get a day's work in.
So, does anyone have tips on how I could improve performance?
I know, the real answer is to get a better machine. I'm on astudent budget--I tried to get a solidworks-friendly machine when Ibought it, but I couldn't spend more than \$1000 and needed to meetsome other requirements. Taking the machine as a given, what elsemight help?
I'm using a Lenovo T61 laptop running Vista 32 Home Basic (anddual-booting Ubuntu Linux). It has 2GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2Duo CPU at 2.10 GHz. The graphics card is an nVIDIA Quadro NVS140M. The system is pretty clean because I prefer to use the UbuntuOS for email/web/music/etc. and only go over to the Vista side touse MS Office and Solidworks. I don't have any antivirus running (Iuse clamAv to scan periodically).
I'm using SW2008 SP2.1 on a license from my school (i.e. can'tupgrade or downgrade). I'm working with extremely simple parts forclass exercises for now--just a few extrudes and holes, nothingthat could be taxing the software. Watching the system monitorduring a crash, I don't seem to be anywhere near using all of myRAM. Trying the software graphics "safe mode" from SolidworksRXafter a crash didn't prevent an immediate subsequent crash. I can'timagine what is causing the trouble.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
WestonSolidworksAdministration
