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Solidworks World 2006

Solidworks World 2006

Solidworks World 2006

(OP)
For those of us that didn't get to go, Solidworks has posted some podcast mp3's on their website.

http://www.solidworks.com/pages/news/MediaPcasts.html

So far, some of things announced look very interesting. Cosmos Motion will be included in the Office Premium package. As of SP4, users of Premium will be able to use it.

Another interesting tidbit from the 2007 podcast was some mention of implementing PDM in the core of Solidworks. Not sure if this means everyone gets PDM/Works for free or if they just enhanced the multi-user options we already have. Considering Vault comes with Inventor for free, then maybe PDM/Works will be offered. We'll see soon enough.

64bit Solidworks is scheduled to be released in a week or so. Basically it sounds like there will be one Solidworks that can run in either 64bit or 32bit mode depnding on the operating system. Files will be compatable either way.

Last, from SoCalMike on comp.cad.solidworks, 2007 files will be 50% smaller. Wonder if they are just compressing the files som way or of they managerd to defrag the files on save.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2005 SP5.0 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2006 SP3.0 on WinXP SP2

RE: Solidworks World 2006

You guys are missing a great time!!  We will see a preview of 2007 in the Wednesday morning session, should be great!

Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern
Vermont SolidWorks User Group
www.robrodriguez.com (updated 1/12/06)
SW 2006 SP 3.0

RE: Solidworks World 2006

Rob,

We're counting on some feedback in Scott's Lounge next week.

Best Regards,

Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SW2005 SP 5.0 & Pro/E 2001
Dell Precision 370
P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
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RE: Solidworks World 2006

rockguy, thanks for making it a long week!banghead
cry
cheers
I hear there are some big changes coming 2007 and 2008.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

RE: Solidworks World 2006

(OP)
Swcommunity.com has some info on something added to 2007 called "SWIFT - Solidworks Intelligent Feature Technology".

Here's the link but you'll need an account to see it.
http://www.swcommunity.com/feature_full.php?cpfeatureid=11273

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2005 SP5.0 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2006 SP3.0 on WinXP SP2

RE: Solidworks World 2006

I'll be putting together a report for our user group and will post here also.  We'll I have to go....giving a presentation on PW in a few minutes

Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern
Vermont SolidWorks User Group
www.robrodriguez.com (updated 1/12/06)
SW 2006 SP 3.0

RE: Solidworks World 2006

Thanks gentleman,

It was really cool seeing my work on not one but three huge screens in front 3700 people!  I'm not exactly sure what the prize package consists of but I believe Cosmos Designer is on the list.  WOW!

Also, the SW2007 preview was exciting!  SW is really offering some advanced technology in their new SWIFT interface.  The push-pull surfacing deformation functionality was also amazing.

I actually recieved an alpha testing sneak peek of SW2007 on Sat (before the confrence).  Because of the NDA I can't reveal (or talk about) anything I saw but I can say the things shown at the general session Wednesday are just the major highlights, there is a lot more.  

I'm in Vegas a couple more days (brief vacation) be back on line Monday.

Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern
Vermont SolidWorks User Group
www.robrodriguez.com (updated 1/12/06)
SW 2006 SP 3.0

RE: Solidworks World 2006

Push-pull surfacing?  What, more catering to those bizarre ID guys?  Nice!

Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all.  And awe trumps reason.

RE: Solidworks World 2006

Catia has had push pull for a while so I figured it was only a matter of time. SW will be just downright fun to play with when this is enabled.

Real envious of all those in Vegas, but holy crap did I get a ton done this week. Probably would have lost my shirt in vegas and been hungover in all the sessions.

Thanks for the info on it guys.

RFUS

RE: Solidworks World 2006

Push-pull surfacing:  apparently Solidworks has been able to do this for years, and was demonstrated by Matt Lombard of http://mysite.verizon.net/mjlombard/ and http://www.dezignstuff.com/ .  This was in his class "Miscellaneous Debris: Next Level Solidworks Tips"  for those of you who remember.  It isn't as elegant as 2007 because it has dialog boxes though.  

Flores
SW06 SP3.0

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