The sdkill command…

The sdkill command is used to interrupt a process that is “hung” or is taking longer to complete than you desire.

To execute this command you must do the following:

1. Determine the process ID (PID) number of your SolidDesigner session.

2. Run the command

To determine the PID iconify SolidDesigner then fire up the “Task Mangager” by right mouse clicking in a blank portion of the gray bar at the bottom of your screen. Select “Task Manager” (one from the bottom of the list).

Once the Windows Task Manager window appears select the “Processes” tab and locate the PID associated with SolidDesigner. In the example below the PID is 1152.

Next fire up a dos shell by clicking on the Start button (lower left hand corner of the screen) and type cmd in the blank after selecting run, then click OK.

A dos shell is simply a window that allows you to type commands that the computer can run.

After the dos shell appears, change to the directory that contains the sdkill command. The sdkill command is most likely located on the c: drive in program files\cocreate\soliddesigner x.x.x.

After changing to the directory that contains the sdkill command, run the command by typing:

sdkill –8 and the PID, so in this example the command would look like: sdkill –8 1152.

If the command executes properly no errors will be displayed, the prompt will simply reappear in the window.

You should now be able to un-inconify SolidDesigner and continue working.

Good Luck, Doug