Quality of Software - Survey

They are still looking for the shrub's & SureShot's long-promised
"WMDs", right?

 

Ditto.

2001 never crashed on me without warning.
2004 waas much faster than this bloated pig.

Just locked up SW2008 again last night (had to close with task manager)
because I selected Photoworks Studio while having an assy open.
I can't use Command Manager because of the graphiics bug for 64 bit users
and eagerly await the multitude of yet to be experienced bugs.
The crinkly effect paper crap is an excellent example of what's wrong with
the currrent SW mentality.

The discussion started after upgrading to SW 2008 where I discovered
that it's not only slower but buggier and crashes more. From there my
rants have included the failure of SolidWorks to address some bugs
that have existed for years, lack of true functionality in Weldments
(steel profiles missing, inability to resolve weld beads around
irregular forms, no means of accomodating material cut size gaps, etc.
etc.) Inability of SolidWorks to add to the Toolbox (it's been
unchanged in eons), missing standard threads in Hole Wiz (UNEF,
Buttress thread callouts, ACME etc.) Ongoing "Failed to Save" issues.
Plate steel shape thickness changing arbitrarily in SW 2008, display
issues I did not have before, The usual ongoing beefs from ages ago,
no parametric link between a view label and it's scale for example. I
could go on and on and have. The official SW response is that SW rocks
and I'm on the fringe of users if I'm having this many problems.

It bugs the hell out of me that they add crap like the crinkly paper
effect in SW 2008 and spend money on iPods for everyone at SW world
but can't be bothered to add UNEF threads to the hole wiz or update
the weldment profiles. It's clear where there priorities lie.

I myself have never had a true bug solved by SW, I get SPR numbers
though which are real handy for nothing!

 

Matt,

I know your VAR would come out to your site for a 1/2 day or a day if
you only pick up the phone and call them!

 

At General CADD. we strive to give the end user 1 day customer service
often creating new versions, fixing bugs and adding features within
days of the initial customer request. If your needs are 2-D you might
give General CADD Pro a look over. www.generalcadd.com

 

Not until jon banquer reviews it & the free demo and
approves your kernels and can clearly demonsatrte to all
that he can use it himself (after watching 16 hours of
simple training intro videos for 4 months) to draw two
holes in a square block.

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