will solidworks ever improve the platform stability?

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Kevin

Steve,

While I am one who has been wanting more stability, it sounds like you are having more problems than usual. There are two places I would suggest you look as well and they are places that we often regard as SW cop-outs but they can be issues, 1. is your hardware up to the task and 2. are your modeling practices causing problems?

1.  I know that screaming fast machines aren't vitally necessary and there is no need to spend $8,000 per machine like one of my previous employers did, but I also have experienced the problems with a 7 year old machine that at one time was up to the task but could no longer keep from crashing while running smaller assemblies. There are applications in SW RX that will check if your machine is up to the task, you might want to check them.

2. We have some assemblies here that are extremely slow and prone to crash and I am beginning to strongly suspect the modeling practice is a very large portion of the cause. Alin Vargatu has done some exceptional work showing different practices that make assemblies more stable. Here is a link to one thread where he offers suggestions large assembly best practice.

While I agree that the platform could far more stable and bug free there are too many accomplished users here that have far fewer problems than I do for me to think the problem lies entirely with SW. Just my 2 cents which probably isn't worth that much.

can you post your computer spec here?

You need to find out the cause first ?

Steve,.. that does sound like a lot.. I'd guess it is a bad install (so do a repair or reinstall).. or, hardware.. related to errors in your memory?

Have you had a chance to run a Rx on the assembly and send it to your VAR?

I have turned off back up / Auto save completely.

I've then set a reminder to remind me if I haven't saved something for 10 minutes.

Then save, save, and save all the time.

When ever you doing anything save.

It works most of the time as I think it's the back up / Auto save that causes the failure in the first place.

Definitely an issue somewhere, could be hardware, or workflow? 

Yes SW does crash for me as well, but very little and I can almost always point it to something that I did, which those actions trip up SW and forces a hard crash.  Most times is when I don't save for a long time, I get sucked up in the new design that I become tunnel brained and then after a bit I try something and it crashes....  I know that and I know better, it doesn't happen often and when it does I groan only because I didn't save enough....

My suggestion is :

1. First of all, please make sure your hardware/software environment meets SOLIDWORKS requirements: https://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/systemrequirements.html
2. And then please make sure you are using the right Graphic card driver.https://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/videocardtesting.html
3. And then please do some simple optimizing based on this: Windows and SOLIDWORKS Setting Optimization - Simplified Version | LinkedIn
4. If you are working on large assembly, please utilize the Assembly Visualization tool: Large Assembly Performance Diagnostic in SOLIDWORKS 2017 | LinkedIn
5. If still facing lots of crashes, please consults your VAR and send them your CXPA folder and Windows Application Event log for further analysis....

May also want to tell us what year and service pack you are on.  Some are more prone to crashes than others.

Like mine 2017 SP5, so far not one crash.  There I did it jinxed myself.

Steve, if you build your house on sand, how secure is your home?

SWX has built their enterprise on Windows.  For over ten years I've been asking them to consider compiling in Linux with no explanation of why this couldn't be an option.  I'm sure a significant number of the problems with stability and performance have to do with Windows and not necessarily things that SWX can deal with on their end.

Perhaps this is a monumental change, but its time for a monumental change.  We need a dual kernel and a better software platform.