whats new PDF leaked (again)time...NDA? WTF...

for those on the ball and reading the SW09 whats new ;o)
do I take it the performance improvement talked about at SWW08 is only in
v.large assy via SpeedPak? i.e there is NO improvement for general
work?...sad..sad...sad...

also I mention is passing the 3 beta versions for SW09 lasting 4, 2 and 2
weeks REALLY!!
all I can say to that is that SW own testing had better be damn good cos
they wont be finding and fixing much in that scenario.

Neil

 

btw I wasnt about to talk about what I am reading in the whats new - just
asking if other readers take that to be the case as well..

 

Hey neil,

If you look again at that section you will notice that speedpak is a
separate tool to use for performance gains when working with models
and complex features. It looks like there are also performance
enhancements for specific commands that we should notice when working
with larger datasets... specifically large assemblies and drawings.
I'm kinda confused by what you mean by general work though. For my
gereral work the only time I would want a performance increase is when
I'm working on larger assemblies or rebuilding large drawings, which
seems to be the areas that were looked at first (makes sense). I'm
interested to see if it is because of optimized code or more functions
being sent to multicore processors. But... I do understand your
skepticsm and we'll all just have to wait and see.

But as far as 'general' work... Sw draws lines and circles pretty
fast by my feble human senses. I'm interested in seeing what general
work your talking about. The one thing that I would like to see a
huge performace increase aside from large assemblies and drawings is
when rebuilding complex pattern features. This is still a very slow
process when large feature patterns are required.

Don

 

Is the whats new available somewhere or do I need to sign up for more
beta work.

 

You have to be signed up for the beta participation to have the what's
new available to you.

Don

 

It wasn't actually ever posted 'officially' by SW. There was a glitch
on their webiste which I believed they fixed.
If you went to the link to the 2008 what's new and changed the 2008 to
2009 in the url..... you got the 2009 what's new.

Don

 

yea I agree... were almost in mid-June already!

Don

 

Hey tnik... what's your email?

 

nevermind, I got it. Sent you something.

Don

 

you might find something at eng-tips too ;o)

 

hey Don,

well I was sorta led to believe from the scant information available that
A) the CEO was setting a direction for.. um.. let me see if I remember..
ah.. scalability , performance and reliability ( not necessarily in that
order or in importance of course ;o) )
B) SWW08 whats coming in 09 showed off considerable speed ups for some
things -like 4 fold..

now like you I was thinking quad processor enabled or something...
but when I looked at the whats new it seemed to me maybe it was all just to
do with another variant of proxy (lightweight) parts in v.large
assemblies?...

myself I am not so interested in v.large assemblies ( - I wonder just how
large they mean? >500 parts?..) but I'll take any good gains in rebuilds for
complex parts, smaller assys and annotating dwgs...

I really hope I am not going to be disappointed by marketing spin..(again)

Neil