SW 2006 better ???

There are times when 2D is appropriate and developing a solid model is
a waste of time. The answer is not one or the other as many others
besides you have insisted for years.

As this relates to SaladWorks:

The answer is allowing wireframe to exist in model or assembly. This is
what is allowed to occur in a true hybrid modeler like VX.

www.vx.com


jon

 

You using the wireframe kernel?

 

Is the rumor that they are discontinuing operations in
Europe true? Got their tailends kicked?

 

How so?

 

The english have a slightly stretched and better version
PLONKER

Cheers

 

Steady, Mark. Years of cold-war food rationing have probably stunted
his intellectual development. There's probably some chromosome damage,
too.

 

SW 2006 will have:
-10% more features that you won't use
-5% more crashes while in the features that you DO use.

While I hope the above is wrong, it is fast becoming a SolidWorks
stereotype.

I'm sticking with SW 2004 SP5 until SW shows REAL stability
improvement. I don't need new solids features. I just want the ones
that they already have to be stable.

 

I would be doing back flips if most the old features and basic functions
actually worked!!! A few crashes a day is way easier for me to take than
all the bugs and broken functions that are piling up version on top of
version. As a customer, I feel like I'm being lied to and mislead.

It's seems like only the software world can excuse themselves of such poor
quality and broken products and yet demand so much money for it. I sure
would like to see this change someday. To a degree, I guess it has. Kind
of reminds me of the US auto industry of the 1970's. As the world flattens,
I sure hope they get hit with a lot of pressure. The software industry
needs a good dose of what has happened to the manufacturing industry.

 

... The software industry needs a good dose

It's hard to imagine anything like that short term (though I've wished for
it in the past). With CAD software it's more like there's no real
competition for Detroit's Big Three. That's getting better. At least it's
not just the Big Two (one of which might qualify as a Big Pretender) of
mid-range mechanical any longer. But, users still have to invest more than
they want to educate themselves and quit spending good money after bad to
save their legacy data while hoping that the next release will be the One.
Discounted "upgrades" for annual maintenance, planned obsolesence, forced
retirement, no patches for historic versions; all part of an evil scheme to
move money from your pocket to theirs for as little real value as possible.

Software lemon law? Class action suits? Pretty unlikely; EULA's being
what they are.

Flip side; it's too easy to get caught up in frenzy over issues like this.
Make sure the software is really where the fault lies.

 

MM wrote:

[...]

You just described what happened to Pro/ENGINEER and PTC. Makes me
wonder where I'll hop to next as history repeats.

Regards,

 

I have mentioned this user "Value" issue to my VAR in a continuing
exchange of emails of late.

I said up-time and consistent glitch free operation is what I expect
from the tools in my shop (which are up virtually 100% of the time,
whether molding or machining). I expect the same from my software &
computers. However, I only get 100% uptime on my Macintosh.

Window OS is patch on patch, and though SolidWorks may be better than
Win XP (meaning fewer bugs), neither one is ANYWHERE NEAR 100% uptime.
The 2 together are definately on an uphill struggle.

My VAR, GoEngineer, said that John M, CEO, has addressed the matter of
reliability & bug fixes and cleanup in a recent speech, and I said to
GoEngineer, I want to see action. I am tired of words.

Bill Gates has been BSing the whole world for 4 years on his various OS
& application efforts and now I think eve MS has hit a wall on
improving things quickly. Statistically they have taken the OS too far
to keep everything stable ALL THE TIME. I think BGates is too busy jet
setting the life of leisure to actually get anything done anymore. It
is time to split Microsoft into 3 companies. OS, Internet, and MS
Office. Put in separate CEOs who have to answer to shareholders and
watch things happen.

I'm not going to hold my breath on either MS or SolidWorks. I just
want to see results.

Bo