2004 SP1 tips

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by Edward T Eaton, Nov 22, 2003.

  1. For what they are worth,

    1. Your taskbar shortcut to SW2004 will no longer work (at least mine didn't
    on multiple installations). Be prepared to delete it and redefine it from
    the replacement shortcut that the service pack makes on your desktop when
    you install. Its a bummer, but its life now with the windows installer.

    2. Be VERY careful about your PWx-2 settings. When I installed Sp1, a
    couple of unfortunate default settings (which I overwrote in SP0, wishing to
    get on with things in a useful environment) were replaced again with those
    unfortunate defaults when I installed the service pack.
    In particular, the screen gamma correction (which I change to 1 so my screen
    image correctly previews my render to file) gets changed back to the awful,
    productivity reducing default of 1.5 (And yes, I lost a bit of time because
    I set up a rendering assuming that what I previewed on a screen was
    correct).
    Also, the default 'scene' that most of us change from the brick background
    to something appropriate for our industries jumps back to brick when SP1 is
    installed*


    -Ed
    *(at least in my experience) I have learned to never make absolute
    statements here because history proves that things are just quirky. But I
    SWEAR it happened to me.
     
    Edward T Eaton, Nov 22, 2003
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  2. Edward T Eaton

    kenneth b Guest



    when i rolled back to sp0 from sp1, sw created a second folder;
    \program files\solidworks(2), what a crock.

    however, sw created a new shortcut
     
    kenneth b, Nov 22, 2003
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