Why I lose productivity in Solidworks - a rant

My computer is old - Dual 3.2AMD, 4 gigs of 800mhz ram, ATI fireGL 5200

Derived sketches crash SW 2010

Converting entities  crashed SW 2010

Out of the 5 times it crashed yesterday once I lost 2 hours of work, the auto-save  is set up and supposed to save every 10 minutes but guess what not a single auto-recoverable file was listed once yesterday....

When using "save bodies" there is no "intelligent autoname"  it is so contrived that it will use names for other assemblies and then guess what part opens when you open assembly - some part of some other assembly!!!!

So you have to intelligently name each part at least numerically - but that has its own f-ing problems

Also when using save bodies - I have to name 100+ parts and if you hit return twice on accident the window closes and the part rebuilds but when you open up the save bodies feature your numerically named parts are all out of order and you cannot go through and save then in order as you have already used the name for part 1 but now its number 54 when trying to edit -  I lose hours of work....

Additionally if you have over 100 parts to save as bodies the resulting parts list only shows two places so it hits 100 and looks like 10 and then at 110 it looks like 11 and so on - obviously splittign 100 parts in not too normal but it is for me and this is what I lose time and patience on.


It really pissed my of because I worked 9 hours on Easter and because of productivity loss, I am still finishing project this morning.

Could be due to my aging hardware - 2008 SP5 was ROCK SOLID!!

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