slow solidworks if connected to the internet

[Simone_tecna]

Good morning, everyone!
It's been a few months since my colleagues and I have experienced significant slowdowns during the use of solidworks, we noticed that when we remove the internet connection to our computer, solidworks returns to be very fast (as it always has been). we have different versions of solidworks respectively 2016, 2018 and 2019 and we all have the same problem. initially we solved the problem by removing internet access to the solidworks application via firewall; Now however, only on my computer, although solidworks continues not to have vinegar on the internet slowdowns have returned.
These slowdowns are noted above all in the passage from one side or together with the other, loading lasts about 30 seconds, or even when after finishing a function (for example an extrusion) confirms it.
I noticed that if during this long loading, I disconnect the internet network, solidworks depart immediately.
Would someone please help me?
Thank you!

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

Does the situation make you with all three versions?
Has the firewall been configured correctly?
there are solidworks applications (composer, fem, routing....) on your pc and not on others?
are the files locally or on a server?

These slowdowns are noted above all in the passage from one side or together with the other

Meaning?

 

[Simone_tecna]

good morning Massivonweizen, I start thanking you.
firewall configuration is standard windows, we never touched anything.
only a few months ago, as I said in the previous message, we added 2 new connection rules, one incoming and one outgoing, which block the connection to sldworks.exe.
applications are identical on all computers.
all the files we work on are on servers.
I meant that these slowings are especially noticeable when I already have 2 or more parts / assemblies open and step from one to another or when I say to open a part inside it, basically loading becomes very slow.

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

I don't know anything about networks, so I'm just trying to help you circumscribe the situation.
your pc has slowdowns while others do not, so I would do some tests to see if it actually is solid the problem.
- check the components search settings by solid:
open solidworks explorer>options and check references/where used and search cards; compare them to those of other pcs. if different set them as on others and check the operation, if equal is a variable less to consider
- verify operation with local file
- if you use files with external references verify the operation with files without external references
- from tools>addent deactivates all applications and performs operation; if it probably improves one of these is bottle neck, reactivate one by one and check
- check system options settings, especially file positions; if, to maintain the same settings, you use the migration of options from one version to another can be that these create conflicts that slow the software

- to see if it is a local network problem tries to open from server an image file of 1mb with notepad (it puts me a few dozen seconds) and compare it with the opening time of the same file from local; if the difference is much the problem could be the connection to the network and not solid.

I don't think of anything else.

 

[meccanicamg]

Try to remove the rules from the firewall and see if it changes. Why should you block the internet from the solidworks process if you regularly quit?
if it has references even only toolboxes on other servers could slow down, idem if with pdm on replica server.

 

[Simone_tecna]

I don't know anything about networks, so I'm just trying to help you circumscribe the situation.
your pc has slowdowns while others do not, so I would do some tests to see if it actually is solid the problem.
- check the components search settings by solid:
open solidworks explorer>options and check references/where used and search cards; compare them to those of other pcs. if different set them as on others and check the operation, if equal is a variable less to consider
- verify operation with local file
- if you use files with external references verify the operation with files without external references
- from tools>addent deactivates all applications and performs operation; if it probably improves one of these is bottle neck, reactivate one by one and check
- check system options settings, especially file positions; if, to maintain the same settings, you use the migration of options from one version to another can be that these create conflicts that slow the software

- to see if it is a local network problem tries to open from server an image file of 1mb with notepad (it puts me a few dozen seconds) and compare it with the opening time of the same file from local; if the difference is much the problem could be the connection to the network and not solid.

I don't think of anything else.

Hello Massivonweizen,
I did all the evidence you suggested to me, and I'll tell you my answers.
1-checks the components search settings by solid:
open solidworks explorer>options and check references/where used and search cards; compare them to those of other pcs. if different set them as on others and check the operation, if equal is a variable less to considerare equal on all pcs.2-check operation with local pack and go file on desktopI didn't notice any difference, slowdowns continue to be there only when connected to the internet.3-if used files with external references verify operation with files without external referenceswe usually work with very large assemblies, consisting of hundreds of parts (we always divide each together in different subaxis so that we have a always slender tree). therefore external references are always many.
slowdowns can be seen only in the axioms a little more complicated (indicatively from the 40 parts up) so with many external references, interrupting them all would cost me a lot of time and in any case we can not do without external references.4-by tools >adding deactivates all applications and performs operation; if it probably improves one of these is bottle neck, reactivate one by one and checkthey were all disabled except toolbox, I also disabled that and actually noticed a very light speeding of solidworks, but it is not comparable to when I remove the internet connection5-check system options settings, especially file positions; if, to maintain the same settings, you use the migration of options from one version to another can be that these create conflicts that slow the softwarethe file locations are all on my pc except the following which are on the server: document templates, customize aspects, customize decals, custom property files, project library, holes caption format files, macro, material database6-to see if it is a local network problem tries to open from server an image file of 1mb with notepad (it puts me a few dozen seconds) and compare it with the opening time of the same file from local; if the difference is much the problem could be the connection to the network and not solid.it took about 4 seconds on both the PC and the server.

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

I don't know what to recommend if I don't contact assistance

 

[Simone_tecna]

Try to remove the rules from the firewall and see if it changes. Why should you block the internet from the solidworks process if you regularly quit?
if it has references even only toolboxes on other servers could slow down, idem if with pdm on replica server.

Hello mechanicalamg,
the rules of the firewall we added after we realized that if the pc was connected to the solidworks internet slowed down and for the first months it seemed to work, then in white the problem turned out only on my pc. anyway I deleted all the rules but nothing changed at all.
I don't even understand why it shouldn't work if connected to the internet since it's regularly fired. The only thought that comes to me is that these problems have started coming out since we have not renewed the assistance subscription.
toolboxes are contained in every single pc, because with our version of solidworks (2016) we checked (also with the assistance) that put them on the server created problems (I don't remember which ones). so the solution we had found was to save, only the toolsboxes that were used, inside a folder on shared servers among all users, so that when a user opens the axieme created by another user, solid goes to look for the toolsboxes used inside that axieme in the shared folder and not in the toolbox library of the pc because in this case it happened that all the measures of the toolboxes used were modified by solidworks (eg.

 

[Simone_tecna]

I don't know what to recommend if I don't contact assistance

Thanks the same.
I had already requested assistance but did not even know them, as in most other problems.