Description:
SWMemRelease  - Releases SolidWorks' (SW) Memory or the Active Private Working Set, if greater than a specified number (in bytes) without restarting SolidWorks. This will happen on the fly even if SolidWorks is in the middle of processing. It does so with no interruption or file corruption and SW continues without issue! No need to restart SolidWorks (Autopilot's settings) to release the SW memory. This is presently DriveWorks' (DW) solution to free up / release SW memory.

These solutions could be used as prevention methods to maintain SolidWorks' "responsiveness" in general, whether or not you are using DW to drive your SW!

All three solutions can be found and downloaded under the download section. Use the solution that fits your environment and circumstances best.

1. Windows Form or Command Line
   

Run SWMemRelease as a Command line or WinForm - good for testing if you want to manually run it.
Commandline switches: /MEM2RELEASE (instruction to release memory) and /SHOW (will show SWMemRelease.exe windows form)

Examples of use:

SWMemRelease.exe /MEM2RELEASE=200000

SWMemRelease.exe /MEM2RELEASE=-1

Make sure there are NO spaces in the command line switch (/MEM2RELEASE =200000 is NOT good!)

Setting up a Limit to -1 will release SW memory regardless of what SW is using at that moment - use it for prevention or to refresh

Note: The app has to be run under an admin account!

2. Windows Service

Run SWMemRelease as a Service - set it and forget it on the computer where SW is installed. It requires you to install the service once with admin rights, then all is good.

Details on the SWMemRelease Service are here

3. DriveWorks Add-On

DriveWorks Project Extender Add-On Available commands: "GetSolidWorksCurrentMemoryUsage" and "ReleaseSolidWorksMemory" - Automatically Queued, good while "Autopiloting. (The more suited place for the SW memory release would be under an Autopilot settings page). Below are example of use the commands within Rule Builder.

The SWMemRelease.dll HAS to be renamed to the same name as your DW project name and placed in the same folder where the project is located! Then it will be loaded at Administrator or Autopilot start.

i.e.
Name of your DW project: MyDWProject
Rename SWMemRelease.dll to MyDWProject.dll
 

GetSolidWorksCurrentMemoryUsage  
ReleaseSolidWorksMemory
FindEx
FindBetweenEx
FindBetweenEx2

GetSolidWorksCurrentMemoryUsage

ReleaseSolidWorksMemory

FindEx (overloaded, there are two functions in one, dependent on the parameters supplied)

FindBetweenEx (overloaded, there are two functions in one, dependent on the parameters supplied)

FindBetweenEx2

License is covered under: PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0 Contact me at if you'd like to use it commercially. Use the above solutions responsibly. If they work, I wrote it. If they do not, I have no idea who wrote them.