I have encounter this problem when opening large assemblies file (300 to 500 parts).
SW will prompt this error message " There is insufficient memory to complete the task. Solidworks is now terminating".
My SW2007 is running on Lenovo T61 laptop:
Intel Core 2 Duo
T7300 @ 2GHz
3 GB of RAM
I think I have more than meet the minimum requirement for the system.
Is there any settings I should check?
What are the specs would you recommend for laptop and desktop?
Any particular model which is best for SW?
34378 wrote:
What are the specs would you recommend for laptop and desktop?
Any particular model which is best for SW?
For Laptop you can get a DELL Precision LapTop Workstation M6400 64bit OS with the following especifications:
- CPU >> Intel® Core™ 2 Duo X9100 (3.06GHz, 6M L2 Cache, 1067MHZ) Dual Core
- Video Card >> NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M, 1.0GB Discrete
- RAM >> 8.0GB, DDR3-1066MHz SDRAM, 4 DIMMS
- Monitor (Build-in) >> 17" UltraSharp™ WUXGA (1920x1200) LCD Display
Hard Drive 1 >> 128GB Dell Mobility Solid State Drive
Hard Drive 2 >> 250GB Hard Drive, 7200RPM with Free Fall Sensor
Optical Drive >> 8X DVD+/-RW Slot Load w/Roxio and Cyberlink PowerDVD™
This laptop will handle SW as good as any mid range laptop workstation and if you change Hard Drive 2 for another solid state drive (way faster that mechanical Hard Drives, will be even better), All ways have two hard drives since you want to place the page file on a different drive that the OS, program and data files.
If you want a high end desktop worktation take a look at the Dell T7500
Remember, SW (or any other CAD) do not take advantage of multi-processing, terefore what you want is the faster CPU available (vs. slow multiple CPU's) also you want lots of fast RAM and the best video card you can afford.
Get one of this and enjoy...
"All ways have two hard drives since you want to place the page file on a different drive that the OS, program and data files."
Does that still hold true when dealing with SSDs? Access time is so much faster than the opto-mechanical HDDs that I don't believe it matters.
Also, there seems to be a growing trend to eliminate the page file when suitable amounts of RAM exist in X64 systems.
I use a Dell M4300, XP Pro 32-bit with 4 Gigs of memory and have opened up much larger assemblies than yours. There could be a number of reasons, outside of actual RAM amounts, that could be causing your problem. How many other programs do you have running? How many add-ins do you have activated? Do you routinely clear out temp directories? Do you routinely shut down/restart to purge memory?
While getting a new, more powerful, PC and/or laptop will probably help you out, it may not be the only answer.
Have you enabled the /3GB switch?
If you are not aware of this switch, download the 3gb_switch_part_one,_two,_&_three.pdf from http://kcswug.com/documents/articles/
Maxing out the RAM wouldn't hurt either.
Need more RAM... 3Gb less the space taken by the OS, etc. you will be lucky if there is 1.5Gb available for SW... so get a desktop, install x64 OS and incrase RAm to 6 or 8 Gb... this days RAM is cheap! If you must have a laptop, you need somethign like e DELL Precission with more RAM and x64, SW is a heavy application and not efficient using RAM.