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What's your most desired enhancement?
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What's your most desired enhancement?

What's your most desired enhancement?

(OP)
If you could add one functionality to SolidWorks, what would you do?  Maybe it's something that's incorporated in an add-in like SolidMap, but you'd like to see fully integrated.  The majority of my work isn't creating designs (or if so, they usually aren't complex), but presenting them, at first with PhotoWorks, and now with Animator some.  It really, really bothers me that Animator can't do transparency with PhotoWorks materials.  Maybe if I understood the intricacies of the rendering process, there's some reason why it can't be done, but as it is, it just bothers me.  What really gets under your skin?

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

That's ironic--I was just going to mention that transparency problem.  But I think I'd lump lots of things into the Animator category as a sort of interface update and general stability enhancement.  For instance, I can create an animation, which in SolidWorks will play back very glitchy (not just my graphics card) and often turn my key points red (which I hate).  When I save to eDrawings, the animation is smooth and beautiful.

Animator is very unstable and quite a stubborn mule to use.  You can get results if you do your planning right and quadruple the amount of time you'd otherwise expect it to take.  It's funny that I can drag a component in my assembly and get a smooth drag of all dependent parts, but if I do the same in Animator, I get all sorts of errors with red key points.

So that's my vote.  Overhaul Animator.

(This may well become a gripe-fest.)

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

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

The ability to create a cut sweep using a solid (instead of 2d profile) that follows a path so you can easily replicate cuts that are made with 4 and 5 axis milling machines, something that is almost impossible to do at the moment.

mncad

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

I agree with Jeff on Animator.
I would like to see more on architecture layout/design.
Most of all, make the installation process easier.

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 02-10-07)

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

I think I'd vote for integrating SolidMap. I saw it the first time just recently, and seems a no-brainer. I've been wishing for just something like it, but for $8000 I certainly can't jump for it.

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

I vote for a more simple surfacing method a-la-alias instead of having such a dimension/plane driven method as it has now.

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

I vote for no more new stuff and just make the current stuff work right.
  • Simplify search folders/search pattern, and also allow search folders to go through subfolders (if designated).
  • Get splines to behave as well as splines do in UG and Pro/E.
  • Add a blatant ripoff of Pro/E's "Variable Section Sweep"

batHonesty may be the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.bat
http://www.EsoxRepublic.com-SolidWorks API VB programming help

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Mine is to fix what they have broke and make work what does not.

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

I 100% agree with TheTick's list. And one other thing

- Stop knee-jerking to the ACAD user base.  If they haven't learned SWx by now.....they never will.  Some people are just destined to stay in the 2D world.  Win over customers by being the best-in-class not a product that kisses-up to a somewhat endless money-stream.....

Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SWx 2007 SP 2.0 & Pro/E 2001
XP Pro SP2.0 P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
      o
  _`\(,_
(_)/ (_)

(In reference to David Beckham) "He can't kick with his left foot, he can't tackle, he can't head the ball and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that, he's all right."  -- George Best

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

in order of preference:

1. make the current functions work like they are supposed to
2. fix the d*mn flexible assemblies, this is a CAD program, not a pretty still picture paint program.
3. drop photoworks and integrate its functions in SW
4. use direct3d for rendering, instead of opengl (ala max), this would make SW benefit from better drivers (more stable) and cheaper graphics cards (eg. more power for your cash).

Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Quote:


Get splines to behave as well as splines do in UG and Pro/E.
Add a blatant ripoff of Pro/E's "Variable Section Sweep"
Coulden't agree more.
&
-Making freeform not limited to a 4 sided face/srf.
-Surface knit diagnostics built into the command.
-Variable face/srf offset, Rough face offset.
-Elliptical fillet feature.
-Projecting curves normal to surface.

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RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

"What's your most desired enhancement?"
blush

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 02-10-07)

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Here is a simple one that I wish they would toss in. When I put balloons on a drawing (Auto or Manual) I want to be able to righ click and <Add to Stack> like I can if i used stacked balloons in the first place. Currently you have to delete the balloon and insert a stacked balloon when you need one.

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Yeah, Nice to finally see the truth in print...
Let's just say they gotta do something for 2008 or I'm not using this crap anymore...
The software is suffering from the Peter Principle big time. I used to love my job, now I can't stand getting up in the morning, and it's all to do with SW 2007 SUCKING.

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Strange ... I'm the opposite ... I love using SolidWorks in my job and actually look forward to going to work.

I agree there should be no more new stuff added till existing stuff is fixed and 100% stable.

As for SW being "crap" ... I guess it all depends on how you use the program ... crap in = crap out. The majority of people frequenting this forum have few problems with SW.

cheers

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Yeah, your the king.

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Wow Razberryjones, perhaps it's time for a career change. I never know what kind of mess I'll have to deal with when I turn on my PC in the morning. Sometimes all it takes is some auto-update and there goes half the day. I still love what I do.

As for SW, anything that can make the detailing (2d print) process faster is always great by me. That's the tedious part of the job. I'm not sure that switching from OpenGL would be so good because the OptisWorks RayTrace software I'm using w/in SW requires an OpenGL card.

Harold
SW2007 SP2.2 OPW2007 SP0.0
www.lumenflow.com

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

CBL, you have just been king-ed (sp) king  I wish that equations were more easily editable and modified without having to go into the equation editor.

I agree with StefanHamminga about flexible assemblies, but I don't use them every day.
see: http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=178339

Razberryjones, you might want to call in an order for Prozac.

Flores

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Razberryjones ...
It was not my intent to insinuate that you were a crappy user of SW, although after re-reading my post I can clearly see how that could easily be assumed.

Recalling some of your previous posts, you are having (have had) far more than the normal amount of problems with SW. As I've stated before, if you start a new thread listing the problems and system specs, there are many here who will be more than willing to offer advice and suggestions ... but PLEASE, omit the ranting SW bashing rhetoric.

cheers

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

I agree with crap in , crap out.
It's all in the hardware and settings (and some user processes). If the correct procedures are followed, SW works awesome!
It's not like ACAD where it can be installed just about anywhere/anyhow.

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 02-10-07)

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Quote:

It's not like ACAD where it can be installed just about anywhere/anyhow.
  I would like to install ACAD on my sons Leapster L-Max™ Learning Game System lol

Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SWx 2007 SP 2.0 & Pro/E 2001
XP Pro SP2.0 P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
      o
  _`\(,_
(_)/ (_)

(In reference to David Beckham) "He can't kick with his left foot, he can't tackle, he can't head the ball and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that, he's all right."  -- George Best

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

I want the ability to create a mirror with full parametric features. Also, I want the ability to create copys or instances of a part as fast as it was in mechanical desktop.

 

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Omitting Rhetoric, I've used SW every day, all day, for seven years. Perhaps you are correct in suggesting the need for a career change. And Prozac, for that matter. I simply agree with everyone else, 1. Don't add anything new, until you fix everything that no longer works properly, or does not work at all. 2. Photoworks, as Animator, as they stand now, are for all practical purposes useless and need to be vastly improved upon.

Cheers.

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Razberryjones,
I disagree with "Photoworks, as Animator" being useless.
I have used them to win major military programs. If you know how to use them (like anything else), you can do great things with them.
Rob, I hope you don't mind showing him this link ...
http://www.robrodriguez.com/

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 02-10-07)

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

The enhancement that would transform my use would be 'save as' previous version, even if newer release features were dumb, it would save sooo much grief eg waiting for a stable sp - no longer an issue, or the big deal it is now... I delay because I cant afford for mission critical projects to be compromised.  Sharing files with other companies on different versions, and having different projects on different versions , no longer issues.

I know there will be 101 naysayers to this .. too hard to code, other CAD doesn't, use dumb X_T format. etc, BUT I think a more realistic reason not to is ecconomics - Solidworks wants our subs and wants us ALL onto the latest release. And for those who say its impossible to do - heck, as an engineer thats what I do each day, making stuff that wasn't here yesterday, and what WAS regarded as impossible.

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Quote (mncad):

The ability to create a cut sweep using a solid (instead of 2d profile) that follows a path so you can easily replicate cuts that are made with 4 and 5 axis milling machines, something that is almost impossible to do at the moment.

Not a SW issue.  This represents the outer frontiers of geometry.  There are PhD's working on this with little progress.

The mathematics for a true swept solid have not been invented.  There are programs that do this by iteration and approximation (i.e. most CAM programs).

batHonesty may be the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.bat
http://www.EsoxRepublic.com-SolidWorks API VB programming help

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

What is SolidMap?

I saw few picked it here?

I looked at the site and it's only $695.

Did any one try it?


Thanks

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

There was something that ProE uses--that I could really use in all my ID stuff--conics (just remembered the term).  It's sort of a quarter ellipse, but you can control the amplitude of the tangency controls to bend the curve as you need--very nice, and much more variety than pure ellipsoid shapes.

As it is, I can fake it with splines, but the fine control is simply not there for curve control.  For instance, if I have several conic sections lined up to use as loft profiles, I have no way of making sure the resulting surface won't have dents or bumps in it with my spline method--with the conics, I can use similar tangency settings for each profile (from what I understand) to get a much more consistent surface.

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

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Theo

Why not use the partial ellipse instead of splines?  You don't have eccentricity control, but the root conic geometry is there.

I agree about using conics for loft sections when possible (i.e. no curvature inflections).  Use of a conic absolutely prevents curvature inflection in any given 2D section.

batHonesty may be the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.bat
http://www.EsoxRepublic.com-SolidWorks API VB programming help

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

TheTick,

I have actually recieved emails from SW showing the swept solids and the work they have done so far.  It looks to me like they are fairly close to getting it.  I'm not saying it will be exact, it doesn't need to be.  Just something like a CAM package that would get me very close without having to create a ton of geometry that isn't creating the right geometry, just something that kind of sort of looks right but really isn't at all.

mncad

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

What I was getting with partial ellipses was not the same sort of curve as my client's conics--I imported his curves (IGES) and traced them (sort of) with splines to reproduce some geometry quickly.  The partial ellipses could not successfully match the conic curves--so I'm thinking the conics are not true elliptical curves, but something else (which is why I must HAVE the PRECIOUS!).

Hey, I'd also love to have swept solid geometry.

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

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Jeff,

As you know, A conic is the intersection of a plane and a cone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conic_section . The result can create a circle, ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola, which are easily sketched. The amplitude and tangency can be controlled with centerlines and dimensions. So if this can already be done in SW wouln't an enhancement request be like asking them to make it easier and pretty.

I don't really find to many things that I can't find a work around for in 2007. In the time I would gripe about something I usally can just push through and get it done. There are some oddities that do drive me nuts, but I haven't thought about bringing a gun to work (rasberry). I'm kind of a one man show with a bunch of EE's and software developers, which has its positives and negatives. When something comes out wrong and calls for ECO's there is no one to share the blame with.

I would request improvements in drawing layer properties and make working with layers more powerful.  

I'm excited for what they are calling instant 3d, push and pull geometry as well as live section manipulation. This shows that things are going to have a more open architechture feel. I always think its funny when people say they don't use surfaces or do surfacing. Solids are surfaces, just packaged into macros, so i'm wondering if you can grab a face and drag it on a solid, and also do it if you did a delete face, made a surface body, and could still drag the face in or out. This would show that they are closing this percieved gap between surfaces and solids.
http://cadinsider.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/02/solidworks_2008.html

RFUS

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

rfus, that's a good point about the conic.  And I can certainly find work-arounds for this stuff (since SW is so flexible).  However, the conic feature as it is in ProE does not require me to make up my mind whether I need a parabola, ellipsoid, etc.  I can simply create a curve and then bend it where it "looks cool" (technical industrial design jargon).  I don't need to get stuck in either a parabola (sketch element) OR a partial ellipse (other sketch element).  I can get either one if I know what I need before seeing it (not likely in most cases), but as soon as I hit the extents of either, I need to start over with a new curve--not good, if I already have my surface lofted/swept.

So it's an enhancement that could be done with a work-around.  However, flexibility and time-savings are what the software needs to be all about.  I should be spending less time/thought on the software and more on my creation (according to [Jon Hirschtick?] during the SW 2007 release I went to).

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

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

BTW...The title of this thread is very similar to the subject line on a lot of the spam I get.

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

HA!  Mine too--and they tend not to spell as well in the spam.

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

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Hey, good one Jeff! Star for you. I forgot about the occasional need to generate a conic. Once in a while I need a conic surface for a hyperbolic/parabolic reflector. For now I use OptisWorks but if the curve needs to be changed I have to make a new part (it generates a spline sketch of fixed points after I've entered a couple variables).

Harold
SW2007 SP2.2 OPW2007 SP0.0
www.lumenflow.com

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Mcad and TheTick,

I commonly use 5 axis cutting strategies where I post using RTCP (Rotation Tool Center Point). My tooling strategies are usually developed by keeping my tool normal to a ref surface while following a pattern or path. I can then apply a lead/lean to the path and it will all post out based on RTCP.  

I have found I can emulate these cuts in solidworks by using curve driven patterns with an alignment method of tangent to curve and a face normal. I can send the profile of this cutter down the path with this same method. A lofted cut can then be created using these profiles with the path. Here is a very simple example of this in 2007.
http://www.box.net/public/g70qn3fa6a
For more complex stuff on models I'll use face curves, filled surfaces, and all kinds of guide curves, rotations on temp axix... but for the most part, curve dirvens with loft cuts make this somwhat possible.

RFUS

I agree its on the limits of computational geometery, but I think there are ways to make lofted cuts that emulate 5 axis cutting.  

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

fix the utilities function so comparing features by volume works. 100% failure rate in doing this and every file I have sent to the VAR they have the same results. A direct quote from my VAR " that's a simple part, I can't believe it won't do it! " It's been reported to SW and is put on a list for considering a fix. I updated to SW professional for this function and it hasn't worked for me yet. disapointing but I like everything that SW has to offer and though I'm still learning the ropes I find something new every week that wow's me about it.

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Jeff,

Tonight at the MSWUG (Maine SolidWorks User Group) someone said they wished that SW could show the foci of an ellipse. One of the VAR's said, well, we'll have to make and ER. This post jumped right into my mind. I piped in and said, just because solidworks doesn't give you the point doesn't men that you cant create it with two centerlines and a relation.

I was gonna do a write-up for the guy who asked the question, but with a quick search I found a VAR that did a writeup on it. There were two guys from here at the meeting and I don't think that they knew they had this writeup on finding the focus of an ellipse. scroll down a bit.
http://www.capinc.com/pages/support/tips_sketching.cfm

RFUS

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

I would say they need to fix the bugs first. Then make a new version be able to save in the previous year's version. Then better integrate Photoworks.

But really, make it not crash and have stuff vanish as you are working on it.

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Phonix, if you're seeing crashes and disappearing elements, I'm guessing that may be more of a hardware issue than software.  I'm on 2007, SP2.0 and it's exceedingly rare that I see a crash.  Disappearing geometry/elements normally points to a graphics card issue (wrong card or drivers).

rfus, that's good to know--basic geometry!  (I've never needed the foci of ellipses before, but use them every time with parabolas.)

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

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

I would like more speed.

Bradley
SolidWorks Professional x64 2007 SP2.2
Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 3.93 GB of RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Bradley,
Isn't that illegal?
bigsmile

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 02-10-07)

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Chris,
I thought about that when I was writing. Said to self, “No one here would think of such a thing. We are all professionals knowing more SolidWorks Speed.” Of course if we modeled our assemblies correctly I would not have a problem.

Bradley
SolidWorks Professional x64 2007 SP2.2
Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 3.93 GB of RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

I know.
Just kidding.

Not only do I want more speed from SW, I would like my PC to have more speed.
If SW were quicker, it wouldn't make a diff without a fast machine.

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 02-10-07)

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Drag components within a flexible sub assembly while in a top assembly. Example, Thruster cylinder sub assembly with a limit mate on the cylinder travel set into a assembly of a pick and place.

To drag the cylinder the subassembly must be edited.

Fix the damn colors, it can be an absolute nightmare trying to find and remove colors in assemblies.

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Does anyone have this problem ??

when i have an assembly with multiple configurations, and i put it in a drawing, then i add some scheets, in each sheet i put one configuration, but when i try to change the configurations SW does not chage at all .

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Quote:

...but when i try to change the configurations SW does not chage at all
Are you trying to change the configs in the model or drawing and what are you trying to change?
What do you mean by "SW does not change at all"?

cheers

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

I made an assembly with multiple configurations.
   * configuration1 has small dimensions
   * configuration2 has large dimensions
   * configuration3 has other dimensions
   * ...
(In the assembly are all configurations OK.)

Now I want one drawing, with on each sheet a different configuration.

So I did put my assembly in a drawing and added some scheets.
I ‘m able to get configuration1 on scheet 1.
Then I insert the assembly also in sheet2.

When I RMB-click on the drawing views in the drawing and choose an other configuration in the RMB-properties, SolidWorks does not change my views. On each sheet my dimensions stays the same as the first configuration, and the isometric view is all screwed up.

I'm only able to get one configuration right at the time.

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Start a new thread and show us some pics? And more detail?

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 02-10-07)

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

When inserting the first part into a new assembly it would be nice if there was an option to automatically mate to the primary planes instead of fixed.  

SW 2007 SP 2.2
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
Windows XP PRO SP 2

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Hey, I like that one (star)!  I'd use it every time over the fixed option.

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

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

I'm curious ... Why would you find that useful? When the first part is inserted it is effectively placed at the origin with matching primary plane alignments. This has the benefit of not creating 3 extra mates at the TL assy.

cheers

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

I agree CBL.
If not available yet, I would like the option to insert a part into an assy by selecting the face of the part I want to mate, then dragging into the assy onto the face to mate to.

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 02-10-07)

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

I never hit the ceiling for maximum number of mates in an assembly, so three more mates doesn't bother me.  Most of my assemblies and parts are intelligent enough to automatically line up where I want them because of the way I built them.  But I don't normally leave parts fixed instead of mated (even if created in-context).

This is probably an outdated "best practices" intuitive thing I do more than a rational one.

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

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Chris,
You can setup MateReference on each part you want to mate. We do that to all our custom build screws, washer, and nuts because we were not smart enough to use ToolBox correctly.

Bradley
SolidWorks Professional x64 2007 SP2.2
Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 3.93 GB of RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

I would kill for a thread tool.  I see no reason not to implement this.  Let me pick a edge, define the pitch, choose a thread type and cut a thread!  It seems ridiculous that this hasn't been done yet.  I won't name names, but other CAD packages already have this.

Now I know many people will just say "but you can just use cosmetic threads".  Sure, cosmetic threads are quick, easy, and don't hog resources, but there are plenty of times when you need the real thread geometry in the model.

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

ArcheryKinetics ... Have you submitted an ER for that?

cheers
SW07-SP3

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Several people are opening files from PDM days ago. Then they take ownership today without reloading the file. In the mean time someone else has taken ownership, made changes and checked it back into PDM. Then the first person overwrites the other persons work in PDM.

What I would like to see is no one can take ownership with getting a new copy from PDM at time of taking ownership.

Bradley
SolidWorks Professional x64 2007 SP3.0
Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 3.93 GB of RAM
Virtual memory 12577 MB
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Look at the Admin global settings. You may change it how you need.

Chris
SolidWorks 07 3.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 03-13-07)

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

We have turned on the “Bind ownership to SolidWorks read-write / read-only access”.
We also have “Set filesystem read-only attribute if not owner”.
The warning does show up about the file is older that the one in PDM. The users still just overwrite the file.

Bradley
SolidWorks Professional x64 2007 SP3.0
Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 3.93 GB of RAM
Virtual memory 12577 MB
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

They need more training and a slap on the head.

Chris
SolidWorks 07 3.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 03-13-07)

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

... and if a slap doesn't work, a 2x4 most assuredly will. bugeyed

cheers
SW07-SP3

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

Chris,
    They have been trained over and over and over. We are not allowed to slap the workers anymore. Not like the old days, when we could fire employees easier.

Bradley
SolidWorks Professional x64 2007 SP3.0
Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 3.93 GB of RAM
Virtual memory 12577 MB
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400

RE: What's your most desired enhancement?

I used to be admin at another company. I trained everyone on PDMW. The problem you are having was the same I dealt with. I had weakly training mtgs until they got it. Some refused and went on their merry way. I locked them out until they learnded it. ;)
Management backed me 100%.

Chris
SolidWorks 07 3.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
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