Hello. I am new to the forum and new to using ProE. Unfortunately my company has not sent me for formal training in ProE and I have found this forum very useful and decided it would be good to become a member.
The 1st question I have is whether my hardware is good enough for the type of work I am expected to do. I have been thrown in the deep end a bit, as I am expected to deal with very large drawings, without training, and noone in my office has ever had experience with such large assembliesandI do not know weather its the user (me)or the hardware at fault.
Hardware: T7500 Dell Workstation, 12gb RAM, Quadro FX 1800
Software: Pro Enginner Wildfire 4.0, Windchill, Windows XP 64bit
Now the Assemblies i work with will have upto 10000parts, sometimes more if i have the complete finished model. I need to use this in Master rep, so no turning off stuffor going to a specific.Getting theassembly to import from a generated .pws to a workspace is how i generally work. This process can take long, the intial generation of the assembly can take an hr, but this is only usually the first open, subsequent opens take alot less time(15mins tops). Working like this is fine as i can let the computer load as i leave work and the next morning it is done!
The problem I am running into is once i start working with the entire assembly, i find after a an hr or sothe whole system progressively gets slow and clunky, and i start getting "Low Virtual Memory" warnings. Eventually if i don't Save and close ProE the system will lock up, resulting in needing to reboot, or a ctrl-alt-delete option needing to be taken...if possible.
What I need answered is this problems with my settings of my PC/Software or is it i just need more RAM and a better Video Card. I have got my hands on a PTC pdf regarding Windchill Client Optimization, which i will get the IT guy to implement over the next few days, but if this doesn't work I'm leaning to RAM being to low...or even just the virtual memory settings???
FYI, i work for a global company so all the work i do is stored on servers overseas and we use Windchill. The drawings are generated by in house software whichgenerates .pws files i canimport (approx 100MB)
Ur advice would be aprreciated!
The 1st question I have is whether my hardware is good enough for the type of work I am expected to do. I have been thrown in the deep end a bit, as I am expected to deal with very large drawings, without training, and noone in my office has ever had experience with such large assembliesandI do not know weather its the user (me)or the hardware at fault.
Hardware: T7500 Dell Workstation, 12gb RAM, Quadro FX 1800
Software: Pro Enginner Wildfire 4.0, Windchill, Windows XP 64bit
Now the Assemblies i work with will have upto 10000parts, sometimes more if i have the complete finished model. I need to use this in Master rep, so no turning off stuffor going to a specific.Getting theassembly to import from a generated .pws to a workspace is how i generally work. This process can take long, the intial generation of the assembly can take an hr, but this is only usually the first open, subsequent opens take alot less time(15mins tops). Working like this is fine as i can let the computer load as i leave work and the next morning it is done!
The problem I am running into is once i start working with the entire assembly, i find after a an hr or sothe whole system progressively gets slow and clunky, and i start getting "Low Virtual Memory" warnings. Eventually if i don't Save and close ProE the system will lock up, resulting in needing to reboot, or a ctrl-alt-delete option needing to be taken...if possible.
What I need answered is this problems with my settings of my PC/Software or is it i just need more RAM and a better Video Card. I have got my hands on a PTC pdf regarding Windchill Client Optimization, which i will get the IT guy to implement over the next few days, but if this doesn't work I'm leaning to RAM being to low...or even just the virtual memory settings???
FYI, i work for a global company so all the work i do is stored on servers overseas and we use Windchill. The drawings are generated by in house software whichgenerates .pws files i canimport (approx 100MB)
Ur advice would be aprreciated!