SolidWorks Task Scheduler

The task scheduler should use a seat of sw from the network otherwise it would be like SW giving away a free seat of SW. The task scheduler is the same thing as paying someone to sit down & do that task. In which case that person would actually need a seat of SW. Yes it would be nice if it did not use a seat, but I am like you & I totally understand why it would.

Are you noticing that the task scheduler will also close & reopen Solidworks for each & every file? On my end it seems to do this even if I leave sw running before the scheduled time. It will actually start another session of solidworks & close & open the solidworks app for every file. I think this is very inefficient. But it still has a benefit in automating tasks. However because of the above issue I only run the task scheduler at night. Which I think is actually how it is marketed as everything I have seen & read the they state that the user can automate tasks while the computer is not in use or running tasks at night. So I guess we got what they said.

Thanks, Steve Tietz

Steve,

They do the same thing with their coversion tool. I think this is done because of a memory leak in the software and Windows itself. If you were scheduling a large task or converting a large amount of files your computer would sooner or later run out of memory. By shutting down SW it releases, well almost, all the memory that it was using.

Bill