I just stopped the startup times of SolidWorks 2007 and 2009.
SolidWorks 2007 took 20 seconds to start.
SolidWorks 2009 took 90 seconds to start.
Identical setup, memory pressure, cold caches on an old P4 3.4GHz with 2GB RAM. After that I did some other things like loading assemblies, creating drawings and so on... with a similar outcome.
Am I the only one that thinks that 2009 is, despite SolidWork's claims, still slow and sluggish?
SolidWorks 2007 took 20 seconds to start.
SolidWorks 2009 took 90 seconds to start.
Identical setup, memory pressure, cold caches on an old P4 3.4GHz with 2GB RAM. After that I did some other things like loading assemblies, creating drawings and so on... with a similar outcome.
Am I the only one that thinks that 2009 is, despite SolidWork's claims, still slow and sluggish?
I am really curious if you still find SW2009 slow compared
with 2007. We are using 2005 now and evaluating to upgrade
to 2009 but when I read this it won't be a good idea.
What about performance of 2005 compared to 2007?
What about stability of 2005 compared to 2007?
Thanks
Richard
I don't see why you're still using 2005. 2007 is way better than 2005. Poor users...
I can tell you that SW2009 will be "hands down" more stable than SW2005. SW2007 and later had vast improvements on stability, and I strongly suggest that everyone run 2007 or newer.
It also seems that most of the quirks that people didn't like about 2008 (these are user interface issues, not crashes) were fixed with 2009. I have to say that I actually enjoy the 2008 interface, but that is not an opinion everyone shares.
2007 is also faster than 2005.
I just saw a presentation at my user group where he ran 2009 simultaneously with 2008, and it was faster. Thus depending on what you are doing, it will be faster. I do believe that 2008 and 2009 take a little longer to boot than 2007 and earlier, but performance in the program afterwards should be improved. I ran a few benchmarks on 2008 vs 2007 for a part rebuild, and it was almost always faster. 2009 has plenty of enhancements for drawings that make editing them faster.
So yes, I think you should upgrade. 2007 has almost unanimous approval as a great enhancement on speed and stability, and I detailed the enhancements beyond that above. Not to mention they have some great new features for editing assemblies that make it easier (which means quicker).
Plus there are all the additional features. Basically, if you create paper drawings, these enhancements are more than worth while (BOM management is significantly improved from 2005). If you create surface models, these enhancements are more than worth while (Boundary Surface is imperative). That pretty much covers everyone...
If you are still working with an old, outdated Intel Pentium computer that you first had when SW2005 or SW2006 came out you will probably not like SW2008 or SW2009. The newer versions of SW work much better with an up to date computer platform, not something that is 3 or more years old.
FWIW,
imho
Other than some bugs I have found I am happy with 2009
My 2009 opens in 12 seconds.
WT
Solidworks 2009 SP1.0
Load time 15 seconds.
Solidworks and my reseller have not been able to fix any of the serious problems.
My laptop and workstations were chosen on Solidworks and Dells recomendations and all they can do is blame the harwdware even though it is clearly capable enough and listed as supported on their website
Why don't you share your hardware specs. We can't help you if we do not have the complete picture of your problem.
Cheers,
The answer is it depends. If you do machine design L brackets, etc, and assembly line layouts. Sure up grade the software. New computer helps. If you do 500 plus feature models of plastic parts for consumer products you fall off a cliff going beyond SW2007. preformance in large part models is intorerable in SW2007-2009. I work for a design firm and we do both. This year we are voting with our feet. We are dropping 2 licenses of SW. We are using SW2006 when we can and Pro/E for complex part design.
Bill
in answer to lots of requests my system specs are:
Laptop:
XP64 Sp2
Dell Precision M4300
Intel - EM64T Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6 GenuineIntel ~2594 Mhz
Core 2 Duo T9500 2.6GHz
200 Gb HD
4 Gb ram
Nvidia FX360M Graphics Card
Driver version 6.14.11.7575
Workstations:
XP64 Sp2
Dell Precision 490
Processor EM64T Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6 GenuineIntel ~2594 Mhz
Quad-Core Xeon E5335 2.0GHz/2x4MB 1333FSB
320 HD
8 Gb ram
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 Graphics Card
Driver Version 6.14.10.9136
Many people find it easy to blame the hardware, but I have given Solidworks and Dell free reign of the setting up of drivers, resources and auxillary processess and I still have problems.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Cheers
James
Both are virtually the same at 11 sec, although I know I have seen 2008 take much longer.
Must be a good day...