swx2005 is NOT

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by bob zee, Apr 27, 2005.

  1. bob zee

    bob zee Guest

    ready for primetime.

    thanks, corporate. bob z. REALLY appreciates it.

    bob z.
    p.s. can you feel the love?
     
    bob zee, Apr 27, 2005
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    McBurger Guest

    bob,

    So the IT genius finally got around to installing 2005 for you? Sorry to
    hear that 2005 wasn't worth all the waiting. Now we 2006 to look forward
    to. The spelling checker alone should make it worth it. Yea baby!!
     
    McBurger, Apr 27, 2005
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    Sporkman Guest

    I'd be interested to know what doesn't work for you. I've been having
    very good luck with it for quite a while now. I haven't done much in
    the way of machine design with it, however. Mostly molded parts.
    Surfacing both rocks and sucks, but that's nothing new.

    'Sporky'
     
    Sporkman, Apr 27, 2005
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    TOP Guest

    We skipped 2005 entirely. Performance is down per other threads on the
    NG. Lots to relearn and a late release of a "stable" service pack.
    We'll do our relearning on 2006.

    There is stuff we would like to use and stuff we use that is missing.
    We generally don't share files with others so we can live in a 2004
    world.
     
    TOP, Apr 27, 2005
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  5. bob zee

    bob zee Guest

    well, Sporky, it is just little things. bob z. will list them in no
    particular order. oh yeah, as a little side-note, bob z. was REALLY
    stressed when he started this thread. here is the list of issues:
    1. delete sketch relations. try to delete a sketch relation out of the
    feature manager - pick it, hit delete. nothing happens. this is a
    daily occurrence. bob z. must hit relation several times while
    striking the delete key. the relation will finally disappear...
    2. textures randomly showing up on parts. disclaimer: this could be
    something that good ol' bob z. has done to himself. will know later
    for sure...
    3. save and then crash. weeee!!!
    4. change config and then crash.
    5. angle mate. it flips. a lot. didn't some of us have trouble with
    this a release or two back?

    bob z. is seeing about 1 crash per day. this isn't a lot, but we all
    want perfection, right?

    here is the 'particulars':
    winxpsp2
    dell precision 670
    xeon 3.4ghz
    3.0gb ram
    quadro fx3400
    swx2005 sp2.0

    current assy consists of 184 parts. (kinda smallish?)

    bob z.
    p.s. only in the darkness of .... did i realize....
     
    bob zee, Apr 28, 2005
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    Waligora, R Guest

    1. Our Visual Basic programs had to be modified to support changes made
    when the program changes our drawing templates.
    2. Dimensioning circles on drawings depended on where on the circle
    quadrant you picked as to what dimension result you got. (in/in,
    out/out, center/center) No one liked this idea!
    3. BOM columns could not be configured to match those of previous
    releases.
    4. Hidden drawing views do not hide dimensions and annotations.
    5. Automatic drawing view sizing does not encompass the entire drawing
    view for some cropped views. This results in the inability to select
    edges outside the border. A workaround has been found, but we
    shouldn't have to do extra work to accomplish what we used to do
    simply.
    6. Incontext feature cut from another part in the assembly. I later
    edit the parent part of the assembly (parent being the part that the
    original sketch came from) to insert a new feature cut unrelated to the
    previously mentioned cut. For some reason the part that had the
    incontext feature adds the later sketch and tries to add to the
    incontext cut, and shows errors.
    7. Section views in drawings do not update when new parts are added to
    an assembly that has an existing section view cut. The only way I found
    to "work around" this is to edit the section line sketch and move the
    sketch line followed by a rebuild.
    8. You can no longer double click on a pattern and edit the feature
    dimensions for the pattern. Instead you have to edit the definition.
    This is not efficient.
    9. We cannot load 50% of our assemblies using SP 3.0 because at the end
    of the load process we receive an error saying to contact our support
    services. That's you. We have since rolled back to SP 2.0.
    10. Because of bill of material units we could not move forward into
    SW2005 until 3 months passed from it's release.
    11. Create a cut extrude in an assembly with the sketch coincident to
    an assembly plane. Move the assembly plane, but the cut feature
    doesn't move unless you first go back and edit the cut sketch.


    These are just the highlights of our grief with 2005. We should have
    skipped it.
     
    Waligora, R, Apr 28, 2005
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    pete Guest

    Bob,
    I have the same problems with 2005, until sp 3.0
    2, Textures randomly appearing, disappears on sp3.0
    3, Also disappears on sp 3.0
    Well, they did on my setup, lol
     
    pete, Apr 28, 2005
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