Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
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I just got the CDs. Is it fairly bug free, or are there serious issues?
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Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
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RE: Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions.
RE: Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
Is there a work around to have 06 installed separate on my pc without over-writing the license file? My VAR said it is not possible. I have never had to do this before.
Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
RE: Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
I kept up with the posts here and decided that with the lack of posted problems, and after installing a trial on another computer we decided to go for it. SW06 does seem fairly bug free, and the new features are nice. I have noticed that it crashed about twice as much as the last service pack 2005, so make sure to save often. I have a lot of CTD when detailing, probably due to the rewritten detailing package.
Cheers,
Clem
ME
SW/PDM 06 0.0
RE: Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
Jason
RE: Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
If you want to here about bugs, some other big SW forums are:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.cad.solidworks
and
http://forum.solidworks.com/swforum
Flores
SW 2005 SP 4.0
RE: Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
I know, but I was hoping there was a way to install separately on my pc without over-writing the license manager on the server. Our IT dept will not allow me to do the update right now because other software is running on the same server. They are paranoid.
thanks
Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
RE: Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
RE: Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
RE: Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
The solidworks 2006 license manager can dole out licenses for 2004 and 2005 as well so there's no problem upgrading there. If an update to 2006 is on the horizon anyway, it would make sense for the IT folks to update the license manager now instead of waiting. You can have 2004, 2005 and 2006 installed on the same machine running off of SNL as long as the license manager is 2006.
RE: Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
RE: Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
Stefan Hamminga
Mesken BV
2005 Certified SolidWorks Professional
Mechanical designer/AI student
RE: Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
I will be back on SW Monday morning 6:30am PST
thanks Stefan
Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
RE: Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
Lot of really thoughtful tweaks here and there for creating surfaces. I have to concur that mates seem to give it a hard time. Relations that should not over-define a sketch do so- and frequently.
Overall though- very nice.
RE: Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
Second, you need the SW2006 install cd's (older flexlm vendor deamons don't work for 2006)
Best would be to start the SW2006 install after you installed the FlexLM service.
I have a meeting in 10 mins, but I'll check back here afterwards. In the mean time, here are the instructions from solidworks:
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You would need to use the 'ANY' license (scroll to the bottom of the page, then halve a page up.)
Stefan Hamminga
Mesken BV
2005 Certified SolidWorks Professional
Mechanical designer/AI student
RE: Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
I would wait to install SW2006. There's been a lot of postings this past week in this forum.
Macduff
Colin Fitzpatrick
Sr. Mechanical Designer
macduff's SW page
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RE: Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
No internet forum can accuratly tell you what works in your situation...
Stefan Hamminga
Mesken BV
2005 Certified SolidWorks Professional
Mechanical designer/AI student
RE: Upgrade to 2006 or wait for the first patch?
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376