Routing with 2008

Well, upgraded to 2008 with no problems... I thought! Then came in
Monday morning and all of our library parts are messed up. We
primarily use SW premium package for routing as we make gas
conditioning systems. These deal with flanges, tees, elbows, etc.,
etc... Specifically what we've found is the C-point and R-point
properties have all been changed in our design tables, which I might
add is now located in the cofigurations manager. Now we are forced to
go through each table and change these properties so our assemblies
will open without errors and with proper rebuilds. Has anyone seen
this? Does anyone know what went wrong? And most importantly does
anyone know of a quicker fix? Down time's a bitch and our VAR has no
good advice.

-Shaggs

 

Additional note that may or may not be the problem but in the
parameters for a C-point there is a new field "Specification field
name". Now I'm not sure if 2007 had that or not but what is happening
is our design table's field name has been Specification at C-point.
When SW opens it in 2008 it's looking for the "Specification" field of
the table and can't find it. Don't know where we got "Specification
at C-point" for a field name previously as I wasn't with this company,
but this change has reaked havoc this morning.

 

a small bit of advice you might consider re new releases

-don't jump in at sp0 and expect not to have issues - there are 2000 or so
unfound bugs yet to come - no reason why you should burden your bottom line
with finding, reporting and then creating work-arounds or waiting for fixes
for them..

-don't jump in mid way through a project and risk having things screw up
badly - if you are really unlucky and you didn't keep 07 backup there might
even be no going back..just sitting waiting on a mission critical fix..

-don't deploy a release in your company before doing your own testing on a
single workstn with typical stuff you do and for extra comfort consider
joining the early visibility testing program.