sw 2006 sp3

Anyone upgrade to 2006 service pack 3? Just would like to know
if there are any pros or cons we should look forward to...

Thanks,
TP

 

I am having problems with sketchs offsets from splines (especialy power trim
doesnt work , extend lines flip to the wrong side). And performance is worse
than previous.
This morning i will roll back to sp2.1.
Hope that fixes the problems in my current project.

Best regards,
Bram

 

Interesting - I use power trim all the time on SP3.0 - no problems.

I have not seen any issues that I would tie to SP3.0. In fact it fixed on
of my outstanding SPR's. But, I also don't use splines, surfaces, etc - I'm
one of those straight line-square corner guys!

WT

 

One thing with new save as PDF files in SP3.0: You will not be able to open
them with 'Full" Acrobat 5.0(it gives file corrupt error).
You have to upgrade to at least Acrobat 6.0 Reader to view them. That was my
experience anyway.
Acrobat Pro 7.0 works great with some new neat features.

Mike Eckstein

 

Also any drawing views that have BREAK OUT SECTION views in them WILL
NOT show any geometry in that view when SAVING AS AN ADOBE PDF FILE.
What a POS this release is.

 

Ran this by my VAR and he said the Adobe change happened at SP2.1. He
said the compatability with Adobe 6.0 and higher was deliberate and he
does not think SolidWorks will change that. The reason he gave for the
change was that many users were having difficulty getting well formated
pdf files from the old software.
Brad

 

It sounds like they had a real good software salesman tell SW that this
is the best software out and will save you a ton of time and effort and
really do the best job for the money with no bugs and no issues.