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Why Your SolidWorks Models Suck… Memory Out of Your Computer

Started by Josh M · 11 months ago

“Stop. You’re killin’ me. My models are immaculate. It’s the software that’s the problem.” A lot of people get riled up about bad performance and poor stability, blaming it on the SolidWorks software. I have too. But who would of thought it could actually be the way the models are created… by ME?
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  • Marijn

    11 months ago

    Do I reconize some fanboy remarks to ST technology in the sidenote.
    Will the future of solidsmack be STsmack
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  • Josh M

    11 months ago

    hey Marijn, actually I'm pretty non-biased (I think) with both History-free and history-dependent 3D modeling. I haven't used ST yet, so can't comment fully on the daily capabilities, but I do like the idea of some feature.

    My sidenote was to slap the mentality that one or the other doesn't require as much thought (time) because of the way history of features is implemented. I've used a direct history free modeler, started off one way and because of a change had to start over completely. In a history based model I was able to go back make the change, some adjustment and keep going. It all requires some thought. don't ya think?
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  • Cheech

    11 months ago

    I used lightweight option for a while, and I realized that I don't really like it. The problem is when you do need to modify one of the lightweight components, it takes ages to load them!
    Instead I'm using "shaded" view (instead of "shaded with edges"): it might be not the best to work like this 100% of the time, but I like to work like this most of the time and change view only when I need to. Also I realized SW crashes less when I'm using this option.
    Another trick is to set configurations and suppress the heaviest components or features, depending on what you're working on. For example, I like to make an "envelope only" configuration to all my assemblies and I suppress everything except for the outside components, usually it's comfortable to design jigs like this.
    If your model is completely stuck, you should turn it into parasolid (which deletes all its history) for it to run.
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  • weewilly

    11 months ago

    This is about right Josh. My computer is slowing down to a crawl at times with a project I am helping our local university. I'd be afraid to go back to try and change anything but my birthday is next week so I am going to get two more gigs of RAM memory for the two I have already.
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