Hello,

I did a search on people's experience using Windows Remote Desktop
Connection (RDP), which is a type of VPN I guess,  to run solidworks
remotely.  I've been doing this for a few months now, just 1 day a week
when I work from home. It works surprisingly well, the video update is
a little slow but most stuff works since all of the processsing is
happening on the host computer.

Their are two places where it really slows down:

1. When trying to choose a plane to mate to in an assembly.  It all but
refuses to let you select planes in assembly mode.

2.  When editing a revloved base.  It also slows down when doing this.

None of this makes sense to me, since the host is doing the work, and
the computer you are remoting from should just be showing the graphics
imported.

I welcome any comments on this.

pope

Pope,

I'm surprised it's even usable. Why not just load it on your home computer
?? SW allows this, at least in the U.S.

Regards

Mark



"pope" <costales@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1109120354.496643.3690@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> Hello,
>
> I did a search on people's experience using Windows Remote Desktop
> Connection (RDP), which is a type of VPN I guess,  to run solidworks
> remotely.  I've been doing this for a few months now, just 1 day a week
> when I work from home. It works surprisingly well, the video update is
> a little slow but most stuff works since all of the processsing is
> happening on the host computer.
>
> Their are two places where it really slows down:
>
> 1. When trying to choose a plane to mate to in an assembly.  It all but
> refuses to let you select planes in assembly mode.
>
> 2.  When editing a revloved base.  It also slows down when doing this.
>
> None of this makes sense to me, since the host is doing the work, and
> the computer you are remoting from should just be showing the graphics
> imported.
>
> I welcome any comments on this.
>
> pope
>

Well the main reason is that we work almost entirely off a network
drive, so If want to work on an assembly and have access to all
components, I need to access that drive.  I also need to be able to
leave drawings in the correct places on that drive for people to access
and to print to printers remotely.

Just don't know why planes are so weird over RDP.

Thanks

I have not used it in remote desktop, which everyone on our network but
me uses remote desktop for all of their applications so I am very
familiar with it. Since I am doing CAd I work locally on my computer. I
have used gotomypc.com which is a remote application and I have had
fairly good luck with it. I will have to give the remote desktop a try
and see if I have the same problem. Have you checked your quality
settings on the option screen when you connect to the remote?

I have not used it in remote desktop, which everyone on our network but
me uses remote desktop for all of their applications so I am very
familiar with it. Since I am doing CAd I work locally on my computer. I
have used gotomypc.com which is a remote application and I have had
fairly good luck with it. I will have to give the remote desktop a try
and see if I have the same problem. Have you checked your quality
settings on the option screen when you connect to the remote?