Hello,

This is my first post, I've been struggling with this drawing for quite a while and am I hoping someone can help.  It's of a large, complex part (235 MB) with 7 different configrations.  The drawing is 8 sheets with the last 2 detailing 3 configs on each, which happen to be the sheets that are giving me the headaches.  I only have some note changes to complete on sheet 7, which makes it that much more frustrating. 

What happens is I've been forced to open solidworks first, then file>open, choose the drawing file, and choose to only open one sheet at first (If I just regularly open the drawing with all sheets activated at once, solidworks locks up and i'll have to force quit).  Once I open that one sheet, I go through every other one and activate/load them one by one, until I hit either sheet 7 or 8, and the drawing crashes.  Sometimes one of these 2 sheets will open up fine, sometimes not, but always ends up locking up anyways once I try to activate/load the other of the two.

I cannot save-as either without having all sheets loaded.  Sometimes the drawing just locks up and I'll force quit or I'll get one of a number of different error messages like "unexpected file format" or one that says solidworks cannot allocate enough memory (with no other programs running), at which point I keep clicking retry until I just hit cancel and solidworks shuts down.

I've tried to defrag my computer a number of times and used solidworks RX to clear out all of the other temp directories, etc.

Any help would be appreciated.  I'm afraid it may be a corrupted file and may have to send it out to solidworks support somehow, but if there's anything else I could try then I'm all ears.

I'm running solidworks 2010, SP4 on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3.

32 bit with 4gigs of RAM

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M video card

Thank you in advance for your help