Hello,

Please help me to identify issues with SolidWorks and provide recommendations to solve those problems.

Hardware Specification

Workstation -Dell M4800

RAM-16GB

VGA-K1100M

Processor-Intel core i7 4600M @2.9GHz

OS-Windows 7 64 bit

Hard Disk –1 TB disk drive.

SolidWorks-Premium with Simulation Premium 2016 X64 SP3.0

Following jobs are doing with my computer.

1. Large assembly  3D modeling. Example shown below.

02. Run nar / Linear dynamic simulations for structures.

03. Create animations of machines showing operation sequence.

04. Motion analyses .

Software goes frequently crash with all pre noted categories. Simulations are taking very long time to solve.

Recommended drivers by SolidWorks already installed.

Please let me know those problems are normal with SolidWorks ?

If not what are the recommendations to avoid frequent crashes and reduce the simulation time ?

Any benefit to switch new version of the software?

Thank You.

Manupriya.