ctrl tab really sloooow

This just started this morning. When I do the ctrl-tab to switch between
open documents the mouse cursor freezes and there is nothing happening for
several seconds. Anybody have a clue...nothing has changed on the machine
(as far as I know) and the task manager doesn't show any real resource hogs.

TIA,
Wormsign

 

Should have mentioned that I'm running SP2.1 but have been for several days
with no issues.

 

Is one of your open docs a big drawing? Does it happen no matter what docs
you have open? Even if you have 2 open? If nothing else, maybe try
reapplying your std settings (that you have saved out) to see if something
there has changed.

WT

 

Wayne,
Pretty simple stuff and doesn't seem to matter what docs I have open. I
will try to reapply the settings.

BTW - really enjoyed your Sheet Metal presentation at SWW.

thanks,
Jeff (Wormsign)

 

Enjoyed in spite of my squeaky non-voice? Which is much better now, by
the way.

WT

 

I know it must have hurt to speak but you sounded fine and I'm hard of
hearing. I've been thinking about your presentation today as I'm working on
some files that our customer sent in that were 'drawn' in SolidWorks...and
the sheet metal feature is the last thing in the tree, sketches are
undefined and hole wizzard holes have a 3d sketch as the location sketch. I
really wish people would learn to use the software.. I'm better now thanks
for listening.

Jeff

 

Ah, the old "I don't know where I am going with this part and have always
done it this way." syndrome. Remember two of my important points: Learn
good practices and stick with them, and Don't be afraid to change your sheet
metal modeling method as the part evolves.

WT

 

I've had trouble with this since day one, but not speed, it's having
it select the wrong item.

Did you say 2.1? I just rebuilt my image to 2.0. There goes another
hour wasted.

TOP

 

I'm not running SW08 yet, so I don't have a clue what is happening, but
someone on the SW forum said that the slowdown seemed to be a graphics issue
and that having another window on top of the SW window (say the task
manager) caused the slowdown to go away. The person who found this was using
some program with a small window to keep SW in line.

Jerry Steiger

 

Only if you're Czechoclovakian. The issues fixed had to do with the Czeck
localized version.

 

You seem to use a number of assembly open in solodworks, try loading
the assemblies in lightmode.
Other reason may be of big drawing/open sketches/too many features in
the drawing/part.
If things are yet not working see to your system admin for memory
problems.
-Santanu

 

Okay this is really weird... right now I have 17 files open, a main
assembly, 3 subassemblies, 4 part files and 9 drawings and the CTRL-TAB is
instantaneous.

And I have changed nothing.

Wormsign

You seem to use a number of assembly open in solodworks, try loading
the assemblies in lightmode.
Other reason may be of big drawing/open sketches/too many features in
the drawing/part.
If things are yet not working see to your system admin for memory
problems.
-Santanu

 

And just think, SP3.0 EV was just released yesterday as well. This one
did fix the problem I had with crashes opening up assembly files after
closing one out. Now if they could only get the graphics problems
straightened out.