Optimum PC hardware configuration for Solid Edge (ver 15)

[SolidEd]

I have been having problems with Solid Edge being ridiculously slow at opening, closing, minimizing and maximizing some what complicated files. I have eliminated the network by saving several files directly to my hard drive, same results. I have upgraded my video card to one recommended on the solidedge site and upgraded my ram to 1.5 GB (running at 266) with some improvement but not nearly as much has I'd like or expected. So I am curious as to what others are running, hopefully with good performance.

Current PC specs:
2.6 GHz Pentium 4
1.5 GB Ram running at 266
Nvidia Quadro4 900 XGL
Windows XP
40 GB HD 7200 RPM

 

[donyoung]

Hi,

have you tried SE OpenSave on those files in question? The
program can be found in <SE installdir>..\Custom. Sometimes
this may help in improving speed especially on large assys

dy

 

[Kenny_G]

Hard drive speed is often a culprit. Fast SCSI or Serial ATA drives/interfaces are a must. 10,000 RPM or better drive speeds. Higher end drives will have fast access and sustained transfer speeds. Cheap drives found in most business and consumer desktops are slower than dirt.

 

[SolidEd]

Donyoung - Can you tell me more about OpenSave like what it does?

Pellaken - Why does the HD speed affect it in that manner? Just trying to understand since I assumed drawings load into RAM and not directly to the HD. Also, does the rest of the set up look OK?

Thanks in advance

 

[donyoung]

@SolidEd
unforunately SE failed to provide a Readme with Opensave. In short:
- it will reformat the file to the format used by the current version
which will avoid reformatting on-the-fly during open in SE unless
the file is already in that format
- it will check various things: broken links, invalid constraints
and other (internal) things. Som of its findings will be corrected
during the run, others might result in a task to be carried out
by the user.

- it will write a logfile documenting it's actions.


BTW: are other programs (word, excel) are also affected by the degraded
performance? If so then it might be not unwise to check your PC
on 'unwanted' guests. The are some spy programs around that will
do some sort of screen capturing and collecting which obviously
will cut into performance. Also keyboard and other logging done
by those programs is not uncommon.

dy

 

[fwc]

OpenSave information is in SE help.

 

[Kenny_G]

Hard drive performance affects several things.
1.Anytime you run an application, it has to be read from the disk into memory, and as you use it different parts of it continue to be read from disk into memory.
2. Memory is cached to disk constantly. Even if you have copious amounts of RAM, Windows regularly caches memory to disk.
3. Network stored files are written to the local disk and are then copied to the network share when saving.
4. Temporary files for applications are written to disk to preserve memory. Solid Edge does this quite a bit.

Bottom line is slow disk performance will make large applications such as SE lethargic compared to fast drives.

Ken