From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Performance Tuning
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Startup and add-ins - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Performance Tuning
Startup and add-ins
- [Narrator] When working in SolidWorks or any other software package that has a high demand on your computer, it's important to know what processes and applications are running in the background, both in that software, and in the Windows Operating System. It's commonplace now for many processes and applications to be running in the background without the user being aware. In our day-to-day design work, that's not so critical when you have a high-demand assembly or part file in SolidWorks, you want to make sure that you're allocating the resources of your workstation correctly. If you're working in SolidWorks and your computer runs out of resources, you will see an error pop up and notice a decrease in your performance. We are trying to increase our performance and productivity, so let's take a look at what we can do to adjust this in Windows and then in SolidWorks. I'm going to start by going to the Windows task manager. Here we can see all the processes that are running on my…
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Know your workstation3m 15s
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Keyboard and mouse setup4m 16s
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CPU and RAM requirements3m 45s
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Video card and drivers5m 3s
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Windows visual and virtual memory settings1m 52s
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Local caches and monitoring6m 30s
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Service pack and version1m 50s
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Startup and add-ins4m 11s
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