SP4-bad experience
SP4-bad experience
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Hi there. I updated a few machines at work from SP3 to SP4 (2006) and over the days I found that there were a huge amount of problems. Opening DT's slowed down by 100% as did closing them. Many mates errors appeared where previouly they were not present. Then when I did an edit feature on the mates they would be ok (and then turn bad again if i closed and opened the part). Slow down with just about everything occured too (simple things like updating a dimension in context of an assy took forever). SW crashed much more frequently too on all 3 machines we upgraded and it generally became much more unstable. I have just rolled back to SP3 and problems have disappeared. I don't have time to do SW job for them and write an essay on what I have found - just tread carefully if you intend upgrading to this SP.






RE: SP4-bad experience
I share your pain. There is one more very important (for me) "improvement" that was made in SP-3.4 and up. In the column properties of "revision table" drop dowm box to select custom property is gone. What is left is "title". So if you work with SW "revision table" make sure, that you do not loose old "revision tables". If you do, you are out of sh... out of luck.
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Best of luck to each of you.
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: SP4-bad experience
However, I'm not doing any drawings or things related to drawings--which it sounds like you guys are doing--perhaps a difference there?
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
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Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
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RE: SP4-bad experience
Have you looked through the Tools Options Settings for SW2006 document in the Rules of Thumb section of http://mysite.verizon.net/mjlombard/. There may be some tweaks in the options you may have overlooked.
Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
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Flores
SW06 SP4.0
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With a few add-ins on it peaks to about 140MB
Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091
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Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
RE: SP4-bad experience
With FeatureWorks, PhotoWorks, Ref Dim Labels, Save As PDF,SolidMech 4.1.1 & SW Animator added-in I peaked at 142MB.
So the add-ins do make a big difference.
Also, I noticed that the Mem Usage drops a huge amount when SW is minimised then maximised. I was also suprised at the VM usage!
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Service pack 4.1 is available on the SolidWorks website. Give that a try and see if it makes a difference.
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Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
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Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376