{"id":12391,"date":"2026-03-18T09:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swtdo.com\/12391.html"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:01:49","slug":"what-is-restart-a-plugin-that-slows-down-solidworks-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swtdo.com\/en\/12391.html","title":{"rendered":"What is &#8220;restart&#8221;? A plugin that slows down Solidworks startup."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Let me explain what restarting is. No matter what software you use, Windows will always require you to restart.<\/p>\n\n<p>To run faster, software performs many tasks as soon as you start it up, and this process takes time.<\/p>\n\n<p> When you&#8217;re doing other things, you can get the results directly without having to rerun the calculations, so it runs faster.<\/p>\n\n<p>If it doesn&#8217;t perform calculations at startup but instead does so during normal use, you&#8217;ll find it very tedious to use.<\/p>\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a question: Are the calculations performed at startup different from those performed during the first run? No! Think of software startup as your front door. Your house may have 20 rooms; you might not open every single one, but regardless of which room you choose, you must use the front door.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you do something that affects the calculation results at startup, the software will ask you to restart. <\/p>\n\n<p>Some people who buy from us have this question: does the plugin affect the startup speed of SolidWorks? Here&#8217;s the answer:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The slower the plugin starts, the more content it contains, and the faster it runs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>In TDO, there are two reboots.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>One is SW restart.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One is to restart the command window.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>We all need to do a lot of things in advance that you can&#8217;t see.<\/p>\n\n<p>An exception is plugins with a lot of UI elements and illustrations; these tend to start slowly because they load a lot of media.<\/p>\n\n<p> Joke: In a world software competition, the first-place winner wrote 17k of code and ran a 60-second apocalyptic video. There were no media files; it all came down to the code pushing the CPU. This gives you an idea of \u200b\u200bthe difference between code size and media file size.<\/p>\n\n<p>SW&#8217;s speed can&#8217;t compare to Catia or Creo. You understand why, right? Simply put, &#8220;elegant&#8221; comes at a price in software.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me explain what restarting is. No matter what software you use, Windows will always require you to restart. 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