SOLIDWORKS: Performance Tuning

Course details

SOLIDWORKS users who contend with hang-ups and slow load times can miss deadlines and lose productivity. In this course, discover how to improve SOLIDWORKS performance and tune your workstation for optimal performance. Instructor David Antanavige teaches a variety of methods for tuning workstation and SOLIDWORKS performance, beginning with basic system updates, and moving on to tweaks and adjustments to SOLIDWORKS itself. Explore how various SOLIDWORKS options affect performance, and learn tips and tricks for avoiding performance problems in the first place. Plus, discover how to squeeze more performance out of SOLIDWORKS using tuning options.

Learning objectives
How your workstation's hardware functions
Adjusting System Options settings
Modeling best practices
Creating custom configurations
Fixing your assemblies
Using SpeedPak
Increasing modeling performance with Instant2D and Instant3D

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know

1. Setup - Hardware and Operating System

03 - Know your workstation
04 - Keyboard and mouse setup
05 - CPU and RAM requirements
06 - Video card and drivers
07 - Windows visual and virtual memory settings
08 - Local caches and monitoring
09 - Service pack and version
10 - Startup and add-ins

2. Systems Options

11 - General settings adjustment
12 - Drawing settings
13 - Colors and display options
14 - Performance settings
15 - Assembly settings
16 - External references settings
17 - Feature Manager and search settings
18 - View settings
19 - Document properties - Image quality

3. Best Modeling Practices

20 - Modeling practices - Parts
21 - Modeling practices - Assemblies
22 - Modeling practice - Patterns and Hole Wizard
23 - Creating custom configurations
24 - Fixing your assemblies

4. Advanced Tweaks

25 - SpeedPak
26 - File size reduction using dumb solids
27 - Instant2D
28 - Instant3D

Conclusion

29 - Next steps