SW2004 sp 1.0 Drawings SLOW

After installing the SP 1.0 for SW 2004 yesterday on 4 of our seats,
we all have encountered extremely slow view dragging as well as moving
of blocks on the sheet. By slow I mean when you click on the view and
move it, it moves a bit, waits 2 seconds, moves again, waits 2 second
and finally catches up with my mouse. This is very unproductive. One
of the guys even says it's happening when moving dimensions. With the
odds of all of us here having this issue after SP 1.0 many of you must
have it to. Anyone? Solidworks, are you guys going to fix this ASAP?
If not I'm re-installing SP 0.


Lon Flickinger
Designer
SL-MTI
http://www.SLMTI.com

 

Interesting, I had just the opposite effect. A drawing that was a little
slow when moving views yesterday seems faster today (I upgraded about 5
minutes ago).

I also like the new ballooning method.

Richard

 

I just discovered another part to this performance bug. I backed out
of my drawing and Solidworks all together, restarted Solidworks and
re-opened my drawing. I grabbed a drawing view and it moved smooth as
silk and fast like normal, however after being in the drawing for
about 3 minutes, the view/block dragging speed started degrading until
finally it was slower than hell again like I mentioned above. Try it,
I bet you get the same results. Just stay in the drawing a while and
move some views around save rebuild etc. The dragging speed will slow
down enormously.


Lon

 

Lon,

I have had this problem since SW2003 approx. SP3. It only happens on SOME
of my more complicated assembly drawings, but not all of them. And yes, it
would do this when trying to drag views, dimensions, sketch geometry, or
notes, as well as a delay with all RMB menus, delay when double clicking
note text to edit, among other general slow-downs.

Like I said, it only does this with certain complicated drawings. I can
have 2 equally complicated drawings open, and when the "slow-down" hits one
of them, I can ctrl-tab to the other drawing and everything is fine.
Ctrl-tab back to the original one and it is still SLOW.

I have sent files to my VAR, and of course they could not reproduce this...
But, like you said, restarting SW usually helps, for a while anyway. I just
don't have time to close document, close SW, open SW, and open documents all
of the time so I just deal with it.

I have considered that it may possibly be a video driver problem. But I
have never tried another driver since it is not on my top-10 list. I may go
several weeks without a problem. Then again, I may have this problem
several times in one day. I can live with that for now, but it may be
something you could try if you can't live with it.

Seth Renigar

 

Lon,
Yep, I see it now. One thing you can do while we work at getting this fixed
is to turn off "Show contents while dragging drawing view".

I'm sure someone has turned this in by now, but I'll send it off to my VAR
and see what happens.

Richard

 

Lon,
Yep, I see it now. One thing you can do while we work at getting this fixed
is to turn off "Show contents while dragging drawing view".

I'm sure someone has turned this in by now, but I'll send it off to my VAR
and see what happens.

Richard

 

Lon,
Yep, I see it now. One thing you can do while we work at getting this fixed
is to turn off "Show contents while dragging drawing view".

I'm sure someone has turned this in by now, but I'll send it off to my VAR
and see what happens.

Richard

 

I just discovered another part to this performance bug. I backed out

Lon,
I see it now. While it's getting fixed, try turning off "Show contents when
dragging drawing view".

I'm submitting this to the VAR.

Richard