I am running a simulation analysis on an assembly with about 60 parts and when ever I change something and need to add a contact set, Solidworks will crash as soon as I mesh the part and it gets to around 28%. I am getting about 5-7 system crashes due to this each day. I am running this analysis over a Network, but I have run similiar assembly's locally on my computer with the same issue. Does anyone have any ideas on what to try?
Yes. Two things. 1). Please run locally (as you already are). We have encountered numerous issues running over network and the SW guys tell us there's propensity to crash due to many files being written and read across the line, esp. if transient and time step data needs to be written. 2) Second thing we've had good success with, is running the SolidWorks Rx. Our customers report very good results running this periodically, esp. with regard to Simulation. In Program Files group, find the SW Program group and there should be a subgroup labeled "SolidWorks Tools". Run program "SolidWorks Rx" and locate the "System Maintenance" tab in there. Blast everything away if you can. Next, reboot computer. Close all programs except essential antivirus if possible. The meshers and solvers need lots of read-write address space on the memory cards. We hope this helps you.