Just look at the ‘Memory’ (column) an application is using and see if the value is still changing. If an operation takes longer than you are expecting and you get this message, you can always open up Task Manager and see if the application still has a ‘pulse’. However, I then had to scramble to take a screen capture because the message closed on its own just a second or so later. In fact, to generate the screen shot of the message, all I did was open a part with a large pattern, click CTRL-Q (forced full rebuild) and then waited 3 seconds before clicking in the SolidWorks Window. When you are talking about ANY compute intense application, there are bound to be dozens, if not hundreds of operations that are going to take more than 3 seconds to complete calculations and report back to Windows. In Windows 7, it takes a mere 3 seconds before the operating system throws this message… THREE! In Windows Vista, the time for this box to appear was reduced to 10 seconds. In Windows XP, it took 30 seconds of a software application not communicating with the operating system before this message box appeared. This dialog is actually a Windows message indicating that the application listed has stopped responding to “Windows”, but it has not necessarily locked up!
Though this box will appear preceding an actual crash, this box does not necessarily indicate that a crash is imminent. The most common misconception here is that SolidWorks has, or is about to crash. You could frankly replace “SolidWorks” with the name of ANY other application loaded on your Windows computer, even Windows Explorer!! Well, NOT REALLY, at least not most of the time.įirst of all, this is a Windows message box, NOT a SolidWorks message box. Take, for instance, a dialog box most every seasoned SolidWorks user has seen at least once…
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