working with automotive models/assemblies? computer specs for success?

well, we do believe the most pertinent info right now would be what processor are you running. bob z. knows someone posted recently that all processors are 64-bit. what? hee-hee. your processor might not have grandfathered in to be a 64-bit, so that right there will be important to know. yes, bob z. HIGHLY recommends you go to a 64-bit operating system. bob z. thinks in his own very opinionated way, that you are quite silly if you haven't gone to a 64-bit OS back in about june of 2007. seriously, this is july of 2008. solidworks is GETTING NO FASTER. disclaimer alert: before anyone gets excited, bob z. knows that a 64-bit OS will not make you faster. it WILL allow you to do stuff you hadn't previously been able to do. solidworks files are getting no smaller either.

RAM is what is needed to fight this evil beast and to utilize this ram, you must have an operating system that will support it!

bob z. p.s. good luck!

Transmagic 7 sp2. Catia V5 in parasolid out (transmagics suggested export for SolidWorks) How can I monitor the paging and thrashing? Transmagic alone is using

i agree there may be a system problem. we have an offsite IT guy that built the computers so I don't really know how smooth the builds went.

any suggestions on evaluating the systems integrity?

thanks for the quick respone

I used Transmagic on CATIA files, no problems and translation didn't take long.

Tom

You can just import the Parasolid files into SW without using Transmagic to see how your system will behave. (I assume that Transmagic is supposed to give you a higher quality import, so things would only get better if you get the issues with Transmagic worked out.)

How much is the total memory usage? Or do you mean that your total memory usage when running Transmagic is 1.6GB? If that is it, you shouldn't be paging.

Set up the columns in Task Manager to look at Peak Mem Usage, Page Faults and PF Delta. As I understand it (and I don't understand very much, but you haven't gotten any feedback from those who know better) a page fault will happen each time something is loaded into memory from disk. PF Delta shows the number of page faults since the last refresh of the manager values.

I've heard from others on this news group that the Task Manager doesn't do a very good job of showing the "real" memory usage. I never got the other methods (which I've forgotten now) to show anything different, but that was probably incompetence on my part. You might search this group on google to see if you can find the threads and have better luck.

Jerry Steiger

?????, he is trying to use Transmagic to translate his CATIA file to Parasolid for import into SolidWorks. No Transmagic no Parasolid file.

Hey, I'm still running on a 32 bit processor.

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