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Re: It’s Shiny: SolidWorks 2009 Launch Site… Launches

Chris — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:51:04 -0000

Haha, I figured it had been brought up a time or two. Sorry to add another kick to the legacy of the late horse, rest his sole...

Its easy to get complacent I guess, 2008 hasn't been that bad to me really. I've lost a few hours of work over the last few months due to random shutdowns of the program, but its not the end of the world generally.

Don't tell anyone, but i kinda like the user interface changes. My only complaint there is the lack of ability to move the command manager around and from the looks of one of those videos on the launch site that's been addressed in 2k9.

I love the new features and the improvements every year, so its kind of a mixed blessing, as most things are i guess. I'll take a yearly upgrade that has a few bugs over next to no change in over a decade; Autocad i'm looking in your direction.

Great Blog by the way, how do you do this and get work done? :P

Re: It’s Shiny: SolidWorks 2009 Launch Site… Launches

4Bangler — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:23:22 -0000

Impresive dog and pony show, but I wonder how they generated the exploding chop saw? Did they spend three weeks setting up an intense exploded view and animate it? Or did they just flip mate alignment on a random component?

Re: It’s Shiny: SolidWorks 2009 Launch Site… Launches

solidworm — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:20:45 -0000

Josh,
sorry i didn't get your solution. i want to download the videos overnight because i have a really slow connection.it's a real pain to stay in front of the pc for an hour just to watch a 5 min video. and if i want to watch the video once again, another one hour!

Re: It’s Shiny: SolidWorks 2009 Launch Site… Launches

joshmings — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:42:33 -0000

yeah Chris, pretty much beaten to death, but I know what you're saying. I think things happen much quicker when you're the one administrating CAD programs and user. It's also a hassle for autocad upgrades and moving to new version of acrobat products. It's not always because of the programs but customers, accounting and having to check compatibility between other programs.

I wish technology would slow down a bit sometimes, but then I'm really excited to see the new stuff coming out and the direction it's moving in. For 2009, it is, from my experience more stable than other releases. If you're on 2008, switching to 2009 will be much easier and I think you'll like the new stuff. I do and I didn't move our guys to 2008 for various reasons.

Re: It’s Shiny: SolidWorks 2009 Launch Site… Launches

joshmings — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:44:26 -0000

if you're trying to get it into format to view online, some video sites will upload swfs.

Re: It’s Shiny: SolidWorks 2009 Launch Site… Launches

Chris — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:07:58 -0000

It sure *looks* neat.

Sorry if this has been beaten to death... Anyone know why solidworks insists on a yearly release? It seems to me the new versions are always buggier than the 200X SPX.X verison its replacing and with no backwards compatibility, picking when to upgrade always seems like a gamble. This go around a customer drove us to upgrade to 2008 a month after release, earlier than we had wanted. 2008 seems OK, aside from randomly closing and a "failed to save document" error. It seems to me releasing bi yearly would allow for a lot more testing and a much more robust product no one is reluctant to upgrade to.

I guess that would make yearly service contracts harder to sell *rolleyes*

Re: It’s Shiny: SolidWorks 2009 Launch Site… Launches

solidworm — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:54:10 -0000

Thanks for the update, now how can i save these SWFs? i can extract them from the browser cache but is there a better way?