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Question asked by Gary Johnson on Aug 3, 2007
Latest reply on Aug 22, 2007 by Kevin Beitel

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If logged into PDM and mating components Solidworks becomes veryslow. With the mate dialog window open when the mousehighlights a feature on a solid the mouse turns to the hour glassand hangs for 30-60 seconds. It appears the computer istrying to find the file in the PDM and it takes for ever. Iget the same performance with "Show Selections in ProjectManger"selected or not selected. When I logoff PDM and matecomponent performance increases at least 10 times. Ifcreating more than 1or 2 mates I logoff PDM create the mates andlog back on. Has anybody else had this issue? We areusing a dedicated server for the vault, the vault size is less than10GB. The Indexing Service is running on the server. Any help would be appreciated.

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Kenneth Barrentine Aug 3, 2007 4:50 PM

As far as finding a file, remember you work locally with PDMW.
All of the files for a given assembly should be on your local machine if they are listed in vault.
The exception being toolbox/design library parts which will most likely reside on a network share.

If your vault resides on a 2003 server, there have been issues in past with certain sp's.
Try searching this group.

The indexing thing "might" be an issue.

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Gary Johnson @ Kenneth Barrentine on Aug 7, 2007 9:58 PM

Yes I realize the files are on my local machine that is whatconfuses and frustrates me and the rest of the users in thecompany. We were told by our VAR that the PDM would speed upour Solidworks. But it has been just the opposite, the onlytime I logon to PDM is when I checkin or checkout a file.

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Kevin Beitel @ Gary Johnson on Aug 22, 2007 5:36 PM

We have been experiencing the same problems with PDMWorks slowing down Solidworks. We are currently working on the PDMWorks Server to increase its productivity. I would recommend looking at how you are running your server. At this time I know that the RAM is low and we are upgrading it to 4GB. The Vault size is approximately 85GB.

We have restructured our project folders to reduce the documents contained in each project to be under 1000 files. And I recognize that turning off the PDMWorks addin solves the problem, but this is not an acceptable solution for us. I have found that if I do not have the task plane set to the PDMWorks page, productivity returns and I do not have the delays in SolidWorks.

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Kenneth Barrentine Aug 3, 2007 4:50 PM
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As far as finding a file, remember you work locally with PDMW.
All of the files for a given assembly should be on your local machine if they are listed in vault.
The exception being toolbox/design library parts which will most likely reside on a network share.

If your vault resides on a 2003 server, there have been issues in past with certain sp's.
Try searching this group.

The indexing thing "might" be an issue.
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- Gary Johnson @ Kenneth Barrentine on Aug 7, 2007 9:58 PM
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  Yes I realize the files are on my local machine that is whatconfuses and frustrates me and the rest of the users in thecompany. We were told by our VAR that the PDM would speed upour Solidworks. But it has been just the opposite, the onlytime I logon to PDM is when I checkin or checkout a file.
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  - Kevin Beitel @ Gary Johnson on Aug 22, 2007 5:36 PM
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    We have been experiencing the same problems with PDMWorks slowing down Solidworks. We are currently working on the PDMWorks Server to increase its productivity. I would recommend looking at how you are running your server. At this time I know that the RAM is low and we are upgrading it to 4GB. The Vault size is approximately 85GB.
    
    We have restructured our project folders to reduce the documents contained in each project to be under 1000 files. And I recognize that turning off the PDMWorks addin solves the problem, but this is not an acceptable solution for us. I have found that if I do not have the task plane set to the PDMWorks page, productivity returns and I do not have the delays in SolidWorks.
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