2007 Roll Call
2007 Roll Call
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Ok, who has recieved the CD's for SW 2007, where are you located and when do you plan to install?
Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern
Vermont SolidWorks User Group
www.robrodriguez.com (updated 8/12/06)
SW 2006 SP 4.0 / SW 2007 SP 0.0






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Not yet. I will install as soon as I get them.
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)
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Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
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Scott Baugh, CSWP
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I will not install until SP1 (with positive feedback from newsgroups, VAR etc.)
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Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SW2005 SP 5.0 & Pro/E 2001
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Here is what I don't get. They give you a dvd now, which is great, but they still give you all the cd's. If you can afford a seat of solidworks, an expensive graphics card, a sweet rig full of CPU and memory, don't you think you could shell out 50 bucks for a dvd reader.
RFUS
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As for the original question about when we plan to upgrade, here is the answer. We just changed to 2006 from 2004 and saw performance drop significantly. We followed all tips from this forum to try to improve this performance drop. Still, this performance drop has had a serious impact on our productivity. In addition 2006 SP4.1 has introduced at least one very serious drawing bug. There is no reason to believe that 2007 will improve on this. Therefore, we don't plan on installing it any time soon.
www.engtran.com
www.niswug.org
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And Paul....a DVD ROM drive is $20....kind of silly to not get one...you probably waste more than $20 dollars worth of time swapping CDs during the install and service pack upgrades.
What kind of performance issues are you seeing....part rebuild...file laoding...assembly rebuilds...drawing rebuilds? All of the above.
Jason
UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2
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Not received yet. Will not install until 8 computers are updated to WinXP Pro and SP1.0 is released and functional.
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I am assuming that SP5.0 of 2006 will be out before SP1.0 of 2007 will be. Stability or new features, hmmm?
Flores
SW06 SP4.1
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Manufacturing Engineering received theirs today.
Design is still waiting.
Unfortunately, we probally will not be able to install for 6 months or so.
That's how long it took last year after the SW release for the ESPRIT copatability upgrade to show up.
Remember...
"If you don't use your head,
your going to have to use your feet."
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Mine just arrived! I'll probably install tomorrow.
Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern
Vermont SolidWorks User Group
www.robrodriguez.com (updated 8/12/06)
SW 2006 SP 4.0 / SW 2007 SP 0.0
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SolidWorks 2006 SP4.1
Windows XP Pro, Pentium4 3.00GHz
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Jon
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Good luck
C
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Pete
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Have not received yet and we will wait for SP1.0 before installing.
Bloodclot
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I don't think I'll get to play with the production version until getting some projects completed--crazy busy now.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
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Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)
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Flores
SW06 SP4.1
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Paris Texas.
New Dell 690 arrived Friday, Software received Monday afternoon.
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Received today....will install soon.
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Our package arrived here, Pomona CA, yesterday. We will not install until the first service pack is out and we attend our local roll out session.
Funny thing, we have 12 licenses and we only received one set of discs. Is that going to be the new norm or is this just an isolated incident?
Regards,
Dan Olid
SW2006 SP4.1
PDMW 4.0
Cad Designer/PDMW Admin
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Regards,
Dan Olid
SW2006 SP4.1
PDMW 4.0
Cad Designer/PDMW Admin
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Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)
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Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2006 SP 4.1
Dell 380 XP Pro SP 2
nVida Quadro FX 3450/4000
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Someone feel asleep over there in the shipping dept or in their Order management area.
regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
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Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2006 SP 4.1
Dell 380 XP Pro SP 2
nVida Quadro FX 3450/4000
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I have installed on 2 test machines for tial though. no problems with the instilation.
I love fillet expert.
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I'm not so sure that we're interested in leaving 2006-4.1 in favor of 2007-0.0 It's frustrating because 2007 appears to have some valuable functionality for us.
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Lots of nice enhancements in this release ... especially S.W.I.F.T. ... although this new technology could potentially ruin my reputation as the SolidWorks Guru (or Geek) in my company.
For those people who have received their disc's ... what have you noticed as far as performance and stability issue's with SW07 ?
Cheers
Brian Mazejka,
Project Manager
Microline Pentax, Inc.
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Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)
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Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern
Vermont SolidWorks User Group
www.robrodriguez.com (updated 8/12/06)
SW 2006 SP 4.0 / SW 2007 SP 0.0
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Did you upgrade instead of making a fresh install?
Did you leave the anti-virus enabled?
Have you upgraded the video card driver?
Do you have a compatible video card?
Do you have sufficient RAM?
What CPU?
Which OS?
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I haven't experienced those kinda problems since SW99 <shudder> ... I get the whillies just thinking of that release.
But ctopher ... rockguy ... and CorBlimeyLimey ... are correct. If you're experiencing that many problems, it can't possibly be the software. Something must have gone haywire during the install.
I'd completely un-install the software and start over from scratch.
But that's just my opinion.
Cheers
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Will be installing this afternoon if time allows.
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Some very cool stuff! The "Expert" stuff that is added ... will put "drafters" out of work.
I especially love the new animation and Photoworks parts. Very nice! Can't wait to start using it.
We are moving our servers. I will install in a couple weeks.
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)
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Got mine today too...
"Expert" stuff, "Put "drafters" out of work...
I cant wait to go put it on automatic and go home and take it easy.
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I meant, put drafters out of work ... eventually.
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)
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SW 2007 and the NEW photoworks, is not good. And there better be a service pack soon. Every time I create a part, save it, and then reopen it- the computer will crash. I have to rename the file prior to the crash if I want to open it the second time I open solid works. Which by the way, never takes less than five minutes to open. NOTHING BUT HEADACHES!! I've gotton nothing done for two weeks, other than trying to relearn how to create even rudimentary renderings. It seems to me that SW, in an attempt to make the software user freindly for idiots, forgot about the people that have been using it for 6 years every day of their lives. HOW DO YOU SHUT OFF THE FILLET EXPERT AND ALL THAT OTHER EXPERT GARBAGE.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled 5 times now, yes with antivirus shut down, Yes, cleaned the registry, I've lost all my custom settings and data, Photoworks Legacy Materials, etc. WHERE IS BLACK SATIN MATERIAL??? THE ONLY WAY TO RENDER SOMETHING BLACK ON A WHITE BACKGROUD!!! WILL SOMEONE EMAIL ME THAT MATERIAL!!!! Photoworks, even with 4 gigs of RAM is still the slowest Piece of software I've ever tried to work with... NOOOOTTTT HAPPPY!!!!
I am running a brand new Dell 690 Workstation with 4 gigs of Ram, and a Nvidia Quadro FX 3000 Graphics Card. I see no conceivebable reason why it would be the computers fault that I still have to sit and stare at an hour glass for 15 minutes every time I save a redering to file, because it's using 100 percent of the system resources.
How much Ram do I need SW- 46,000 dollars worth???
Sorry for the rant, but if I wanted frustration like this, I would have bought Alibre, its alot cheaper, and gives out just as many headaches.
SICK O THIS.
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Users like yourself usually end up with using Inventor.
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)
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Clean it up. No one, I mean no one is having the same problems you are. I assume you updated all the drivers and everything......I would get one of the many RAM checking programs and see if you don't have some bad RAM. I read just about every SolidWorks newsgroup there is an your problems are yours and your alone. Does this happen working across the network and local?
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My seat of SW is the only one at my company. So essentially, yes, it's a local problem... I am going to have to check the RAM. If you say no one else is having these problems, if the reseller says no one else is having these problems, it's got to be true. In actuality it would suprise me less if the Dell has faulty RAM.
Back to the drawing board. and again, sorry for the explosion, Just reading about how happy everyone is with it, and going throght these nightmares and driven me a little over the edge.
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You should also run the Dell diagnostics and verify your hardware is OK. Your machine is presumably under warranty so you need to ID the source of the problem.
I'm sure you already have but you should make sure your burly graphics card is running the certified driver.
I'm with the previous respondants: the problem isn't the software -- the problem is being *revealed* by the software.
Good luck
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Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
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Turns out, when I updated the license file ... it removed and corrupted the dongle and driver! It would only let me install it manually.
uuuuugh!
What a nightmare!
It works great now! Just in time for 2008 to come out.
Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
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