POLL: will you be getting SW2006?

Just wondering what the general attitude/feeling for SW2006 is out
there....if you didn't need to exchange models with others who bought it
would you like to give away the upgrade cycle now? if SW2006 contained no
new features but was solely a bug fix/code clean up over all sp during the 9
months would you pay subs for that?

 

Most likely unless we buy Solid Edge then I would keep SolidWorks as
is.

 

I stopped at 2k4, and sometimes we regret 2k1+ SP6 that was the most stable
I remember of. I think our next move will be towards all-64 bits soft and
hardware. As soon as it is stable.

 

Well they will have to do better than a spell checker to entice me.

What I would like to see more than anything is better detailing. I would
like hole callouts to actually work and see hole wizard updated. Then I
would for sure spend some money.

With updates so far apart and so many bugs in each release, the motivation
is going away to upgrade. Seems like I still get suckered in anyway.

MB

 

Bug fix and performance is all I need.

 

I've been asking for a bug fix/ code clean up for a long time. I see
no reason to add new features when there are so many problems with the
ones we have now.

In fact if they don't do this, I'll be looking to some other CAD
program. -I've been a loyal SW user since 96.

 

And you'll get the same issues no matter what software you go to. They
are in a race with each and whether we like it or not, new features
attract new customers. If Solidworks stopped adding features and just
fixed code, sure it would be more stable, but they would lose out
against their competition and eventually go out of business.

Now I'm not saying it shouldn't be better, it should. I think that all
3d CAD users are suffering at the expensive of the CAD companies
rushing out new features to "one up" each other. Eventually the
software will mature and most 2d users will have converted and only a
few CAD companies will be left standing. Who will still be here?

 

Kind of an interesting statistic I learned at SWW by talking with a
developer is that they spend 20% of their time working on new feature stuff,
and 80% on bug fixing.

WT

 

I think that would be a great plan! I'd buy it...

Dan