I've been working from home, and the performance has been slow, even if I put my files on an external hard drive. We have to access our licenses from another location, so there's normally a lag of a couple seconds for creating new files. However, it's taking a LONG time to open assemblies and multipart detail or assembly drawings. Is there anything I can do to improve my performance? I'm using SW2017 with Windows 10 on an HP Z-Book 15 G3 with 32GB RAM.
I would definitely borrow a license to prevent SW from closing on you if the VPN drops out. Another option is to remote into a workstation in the office that has a direct link to the PDM server and use SW on that. There are tons of people remoting into work now which taxes your local internet bandwidth as well as you company's. Most companies have a conservative connection speed because they aren't normally setup for lots of remote users.
Hi you should never borrow a license over VPN is once SW licenses are borrowed against the hardware ID of the network card it is borrowed against. In the case of vpn this is a virtual network adaptor and liable to change when disconnected and reconnected. The license will end up in a hung state and require intervention from their VAR and SW to resolve see Navigating all Your Work-from-Home SOLIDWORKS Options
I doubt like mark says that the license is what's slowing things down. More likely speed of opening files if over network or from slow external drive. If you have subscription worth getting your VAR to take a look.
I was unaware of this VPN issue. Thanks for the information.
Hi Albert,
I'm working from home as well and I'm on network license. I connect to our company's VPN to launch SW. There shouldn't be any "cost" penalty from VPN network licensing (because it's simply pinging very infrequently to see if you have a license), but if you are pulling large files from your company's server then, with VPN, you're certainly going to have performance issues. VPN is traffic depending (like rush hour on the freeway). I would Workgroup PDM or PDM standard if you have it set up. If not, I'd recommend GrabCAD or DropBox or BOX sync for your files.