Arghh! My sw2007 sp1 hangs opening drawings

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

 

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

 

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

 

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