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SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

(OP)
Quote from SolidWorks web site:

Quote:

SolidWorks and COSMOS 2007 SP0 have now been released. All products in all supported languages, for both 32-bit and 64-bit Operating Systems, are now available for subscription customers to download from the following area of the SolidWorks web site:

http://solidworks.com/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Release shipments, including CD/DVD media, will commence in August.

Bradley

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

Thanks for the heads up...  we wait for SP1.0 before using it for production so it might be another 5 weeks before we can use it.  

Flores
SW06 SP4.1

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

I'm not ready for 2007.....it's not even September bugeyed  I guess now I will start getting Christmas catalogs in the mail. banghead

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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Never argue with an idiot. They'll bring you down to their level and beat you with experience every time.

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

Thanks Bradley.
For some reason it's not loading the page for me. It is slow then I get a blank page. Anyone else having the same problem?

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

No it's working here, but I don't like the new install manager yet, but it's a good idea for the user that can't figure out how to surf a webpage and find what he needs to DL.

Probably alot of people downloading it and the page is taking to long so IE sees that it's not loading.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

(OP)
Thanks for the Star.
I am with the rest of you. We will not run production work on SolidWorks 2007 until it is at SP 1.0.

Bradley

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

If you use max and brazil you wont be happy with photoworks 2.

Its not even close. Speed of render, options of lighting, mapping, materials, caustics, GI, every aspect, pales in comparason.

If speed is your goal, stay with max and look into Vray, I always found it faster than brazil, although brazil has a certain look to it that I always liked, when it was done correctly. Brazil always seemed harder than vray to get the lighting just right.

Just having photoworks 2 turned on as an add-in slows large assemblies that have textures it seems. Never did solve that problem. We had to have our designers turn off photoworks till the very end of modeling before turning on in order to not bring the system to a crawl.

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Randy

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

I downloaded and installed it yesterday, this time using the new install manager and I must say they did listen to the beta testers! It works great now, letting you decide where to store the downloaded zip files and keeping them after the installation. I was a fan of the manual downloads during the beta period, but from now on I will use the new installation manager.

Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer/AI student

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

64-bit is not going to be faster, the only benefit to 64-bit systems is that it does not have a memory limitation. You can have as much RAM as you can afford, but if your assemblies are not big and you are not running out of it now, whats the point.

Save your money and get a top of the line CPU and video card, since those are usaully the limitations to most systems.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

Is SW 2007 SP 0 buggey? I have yet to work with it.

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

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RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

(OP)
Scott is right about the 64 bit systems. We have 4 persons here out of 11 running 64 bit and what trouble it is. 1st we had to get our 32 bit visual basic programs to run on 64 bit platforms. 2nd I have to keep 2 separate service packs. 3rd it is no faster than the 32 bit systems, because we all have 2 gig of memory.

Bradley

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

Where is 2006 SP5?!!!!!

They released 2007 SP0 before fixing all of the problems with 2006... typical.

We will upgrade around SP2 or 3 when it is somewhat stable.

-Jeff
SW2006 SP4.1

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

The install manager works well now.....at least at home. A company firewall may throw a kink in it. Basically you just check what you want to install and it downloads the files and starts installing each. Supposedly when SPs come out...you run the install manager and it will download and install the SP with no need for the user to do anything except wait.

Not as slick as how Alibre handles it but a step in the right direction. The only thing left to make it better in my opinion is to ask you upfront where you want to install Solidworks and add-ins and set the settings, then handle the rest of the installtion hands-off. As it is now....you still go through the same installation dialogues one at a time which happens to be a little different for each program (Swx, DwgEditor, eDrawing, PDM/works, etc.).

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

How many of you actually tested SW2007 for stability?

Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer/AI student

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

(OP)
Stefan,
     Not me. Only tried small parts and drawings.

Bradley

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

The download manager wouldn't let me in for Beta and it won't let me in now. I have 2004, 2005, 2006 on my computer. My VAR, back in 04 when we upgraded from 01, gave me a new serial. This one didn't work, and has never worked, so they told me to use the old one I had for 01 during installation, which worked fine and generated a Reg code for 04 05 and 06, and they said to use the other one to access support. This was never a problem until now, so the download manager looks in my registry for my serial number and sees that it doesn't match my support number. I would have to uninstall all three, but then they would have to figure out why the serial they gave me in the first place never worked for the others, this would take all day to uninstall and reinstall. I ended up using the manual download which I like anyway.

I did beta. It seems like they did a lot of stuff for premium, but I see the least amount of change in the core stuff. The only new feature is free form on 4 sided surfaces. The gui's a little different. I crashed it a bunch using scanto3d and routing. It seemed fairly stable in most core functionality, but who knows what oddities will pop up.

Overall, I have to say I'm not really that excited about this release, seeing as I don't have premium. Plus, most of the places in china that we work with, who use my SW files and not just my solids won't be on 07 for a while, so I can't use it anyway.

RFUS

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

Most stuff is added to the core...Premium just added "Scan to 3d".....and whatever enhancements that were made to Routing, Cosmosworks, CosmosMotion. You can purchase them separately so I wouldn't call it a "Swx Premium" enhancement with the exception of Scan to 3d which is only available in the "Premium" version.

All the other stuff is in the core.
New spline enhancements
Belt/chain assy feature and sketch feature
Isolate
Save Document Notification
New Gui for sutomizing keyboard shortcuts
Pack N Go
Solidworks Explorer rewritten
Screen capture
Full screen mode toggle and hide feature tree toggle
Equal Relations in 3d sketches
Realign sketches
Fully define a sketch
SketchXpert and MateXpert to resolve over-defining issues
Selection Manager for Lofts, sweeps, and boundary surfaces
Boundary surface
Freeform edit
Hole Series enhancements
Rack and Pinion mates
Break drawing view in both directions
Relative View works with cyclindrical bodies now
Custom Properties in balloons
Drawing Block enhanced
Different ways to display fraction dimensions
Multiple radius dimension leaders
Dimensions linked to notes bring symbols and tolerances with them.
Curved sheetmetal flanges







Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

The install manager is great for those that can't find the website and get the Downloads... as for installing it I LOVE the way it installed the Admin image... There was no work involved I just pointed to the location and away it went! Installation went very smooth and I have been working on a drawing most of the day of a 20 part assembly. Detailing each component and main assembly... I have not crashed one time yet. So far the stablity is there. I have seen some graphical issues, which usually comes with the tertitory, but nothing to cause me ot crash

My overall opinion is like "Tony the Tiger"... It's Grrrreat!!

Even if most of you don't use it for production which is the smart thing to do. You should still fully test it with copies of your files just to see how it works with your products. YOu might find a serious bug in SP0 and if it doesn't get fixed in SP1.. when you move to it, that bug will still be there.

Best regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

Exactly Scott.....testing a new version with your data set is critcal. Don't rely on other people to hopefully report an issue that would be major to your needs. It could turn out that you are the only user to do something a certain way. Or others that discovered the issue may elect to workaround it and never report it.


Scott...does the "Save Notification" flicker on your PC? Most times I don't see it cause when rotating, panning, and zooming.....it flickers and thus faintly shows. Sometimes I only know it's there because I caught a faint flicker out of the corner of my eye. Then I move the mouse pointer down to the lower right and it appears. I have a gaming nvidia card so I figured that was the problem but I was wondering if others see it with Cad video cards.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

I have not noticed that at all. I am using the Quadro FX 1100. The graphical glitch i saw was when I had the Tools\Options window open and part of it wnet missing because of another explorer window I had open.

Idid recently get a 2 drawing files one from SW06 and one while working on it in SW07 as a SW07 file, corrupt on me. THe SW06 file would not save to the new SW07 version. SW is looking into the issue. Other then that I have not seen much else.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

On the official SW forum, there is a thread found at "Customer Experience" > "2007 is clearly buggy, why release sp0?".
http://forum.solidworks.com/swforum/default.asp?b=1&g=2&m=4548

I haven't used SW07 yet because it's too young (SP0), but those on that forum are griping quite a bit about it.  I will give SW credit for leaving that thread on their forum; not censoring those who slam their product.

Flores
SW06 SP4.1

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

I just finished reading that....I find it interesting how many times I've read that similar thread everytime a new release comes out. It's like reading the same thing over and over again.

Anne Van Epern
C.G. Bretting Mfg., Ashland, WI
www.bretting.com

SW 2006 SP4.1 DBWorks 2005
Quadro FX 3000
Pentium 4 2GHz 1GB RAM
WinXP 02 SP2

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

At SW is not like AutoCAD and does things like that... AutoCAD won't allow bashing of their product... I think sometimes bashing of a product will make them try harder... AutoCAD never done anything for their customers so when they bashed the product they removed the thread... because they didn't plan to help their follow customers... JMO

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

Yeah, while I can't trace the SPRs from the beta's, in contrast to the folks on the 'official' forum, allmost all bug reports I filed got fixed in later releases, so people at SW do listen...
Personally I feel that 2007 SP0 is the most stable SP0 release I've seen (2001 and up), better than SW2006 SP1.

Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer/AI student

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

Working for a VAR I see it in a much different light then you as a user. Being in this position I can tell you this SW is making a system that is going to be benefit the users so much more. Its going to take some ability to overcome the changes, but in the end (like always with SW) it will be much better in the end for all customers.

JMO again!
Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

SW07 is dropping support of Win2000.  Does anyone know if this affects the SW07 Viewer?  I am wondering if anyone has (or can) checked to see if the Viewer will work with SW07 files and Win2000?

My VAR was semi-clueless.

My problem is there are a lot of Viewer users in my company that are still on Win2K, and their Department Head does not have the buget to upgrade his users to newer operating systems.  If I could know for sure that the SW07 Viewer works on Win2K then upgrading is a non-issue for usu.

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RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

MadMango.

We had the same problem a while back with the SW viewer. We have some people in Windows 98. It was at that time we went to E drawings for our viewer and this seems to work just fine for us anyway.

Roger

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

(OP)
No, viewer did not run, the answer below.

Windows 2000 is not a supported operating
system. Please upgrade to a recommended
version of Windows:
http://www.solidWorks.com/pages/services/S...

Bradley

RE: SolidWorks & COSMOS 2007 SP0 have been released

Thanks for the info Bradley.  I guess I'll try rporter's appraoch and get everyone to try eDrawings.

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