Optimize Solidworks 2004

We have a dual opteron 1.6, 2 GB ECC Ram, Quadro 750 XGL 128Mb Ram
Video Card in our systems. I don't have SolidWorks experience myself
but I
want to optimize them. They seem slower than our previous machines.
I've looked for a tutorial on this subject and have come up dry.

Thanks,
Mike-b
Star Aviation

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What you need is Matt's handy dandy optimizing guide...
http://www.frontiernet.net/~mlombard/

Click on Tools/Options settings.

Lots of good infos in there.

Mike Wilson

 

Dual Opteron? Boy, that must have cost a bundle. Why dual processor? Have
you run any benchmarks to validate your suspicion?

 

We are moving over from Autocrash 2002 into solidworks. I know
Solidworks doesn't utilize dually's but I was tired of people
complaining about "my computer won't do this or that". I talked my
bosses into letting me build the CAD machines instead of buying off
the shelf ones. We bought a couple of HP XW4100's with decent
results. I built the new machines for less than $2500 each with OS
and Office 2003 Pro. So far we are pleased. I'm just wanting to
crank out as much as we can out of these boxes. No benchmarks yet.
Probably won't. They are on a huge deadline crunch. Also, the one
that seemed slower was due to a bad install. RE-installed SW and runs
as smooth as can be.

Mike-b

 

Thanks Mike, I will look into that and try some of those things.

Mike-b