Arghh! My sw2007 sp1 hangs opening drawings

Nov 07, 2006 3 Replies
Z

Hi,



My sw2007 sp1 has developed this situation where I open a drawing file (whether or not the parts / assm's are already opened) and:


1: I see the preview, can pan, zoom, etc
2: The little bar that shows the progress of loading parts appears, but never gets any green square in it.
3: I can access menus but no commands wille execute.

Essential boils down to the fact that solidworks is hung up, I have to kill it from the task manager and start again.



This is happening so often it's starting to cause serious problems. My var has made some suggestions re: virus software, addin's etc but all to no avail.



Any ideas?



Zander



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W

Standard reply, but I start by turning off all add-ins. Also try opening a new drawing. Only particular drawings? What if you open lightweight? How about "hiding" the model files so the drawing can't find any of them and then try opening.

WT

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Z

Thanks Wayne,

I did turn off all addin's (except toolbox). Happens to all drawings. Seems random, doesn't matter if I have all the parts open already or not. Doesn't matter if I've just started solidworks or if I've been working in it for a while. Lightweight doesn't matter - havn 't tried hiding the models yet.

Basically I'll work for an hour, opening closing saving etc, then for some reason the next drawing I open will hang sw. I've learned now to do a saveall before opening a drawing :(

Another rebuild may be in my future. I just can't get 2007 to work well here. Since I first installed it I've rebuilt my system 3 times (2 were due to try 64bit windows and then later abandoning it).

Zander

Wayne Tiffany wrote:

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Zander,

I'm curious about your experience with 64bit windows. I've been looking at changing when I replace my workstation, but I'm not sure there's much advantage at this point. Sounds like it was a negative in your experience.

Craig

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