Anyone using SW2008 yet?
Anyone using SW2008 yet?
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Just loaded SW2008. What was DS thinking? I hate the new user interface. Very annoying. If I wanted this sort of headache I would have purchased Inventor!
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Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
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Dell M90, Core2 Duo
4GB RAM
Nvidia 3500M
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Why is my handle 65Roses?
Please visit http://www.cff.org/aboutCFFoundation/About65Roses/ to learn why!
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Chris
SolidWorks 07 4.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
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I AM looking forward to some of the new features.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe transcends reason.
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I hate it already.
Everything is in a different place, and works differently.
There's a whole palette of crap that follows the cursor around. Okay, it's not crap, it's stuff that used to be in other places, and pretty much stayed put ... so you could find it when you needed it. The contents of the palette changes, probably in relation to context, but so far it seems more random than that. Everything is an icon, which will explain its meaning eventually, but waiting for the meaning to appear, or remembering the correct click, is a _lot_ slower than reading a labeled button.
EVERYTHING fades in and out like a damn Cheshire cat.
All of this UI complexity does not come for free. It's noticeably slower.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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After two years worth of requesting that our VAR update the address that our disks were shipped to, I found a link to do it on the customer portal. Log in, click on My Profile and hidden in the space between the My Profile and My Company sections is a line that says “To request a change to your email address or company information,Click Here.” That link lets you fire off an e-mail to the people who can change it. I received a reply back later that day.
Eric
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Apparently most of the "enhancements" you mentioned can be disabled. You may have to wade through the Help and Options to find all the OFF switches ... unless people start posting them here.
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I tried the open the 13K+ body part that we worked on in thread559-198429: Anyone tried this?, to no avail. I think it's all of the Realview Graphics/ Photoworks stuff bogging things down.
Even with these issues, I'm with Mirisola. There are some good ideas and improvements here. I does take a bit of getting used to, but such is progress...r so they tell me. It'll probably take a couple of weeks to get full use out of every nook and cranny of the new release. Old(ish) habits die hard.
It will be interesting to see whether or not we all end up liking these changes.
Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
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Chris
SolidWorks 07 4.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
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Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe transcends reason.
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Dennis
SolidWorks 2007 SP3.0
Windows XP Pro, Pentium4 3.00GHz
1GB RAM, Nvidia FX500
Logitech Marble Mouse, SpaceExplorer
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Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
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Chris
SolidWorks 07 4.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
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Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
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Chris
SolidWorks 07 4.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
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Why is my handle 65Roses?
Please visit http://www.cff.org/aboutCFFoundation/About65Roses/ to learn why!
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I am actually looking forward to the save to illustrator format right out of a drawing.
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Learn to Adapt.
That's why we humans are still on this earth you may hate it at first but I expect 2008 to be more efficient.
Notice that all the valuable toolbar space that used to be wasted on several types of arcs and lines and dims now have flyouts to compress the space they take up. Also when adding constraints instead of having to go to the Manager Tab they are conveniently located as well as the Dimension toolbar right whhere your mouse is.
When you click on any sketch entity and that mini floating toolbar appears there are constraints as well as the dimension icon that you can select to add dims.
One thing I wish the constraints tool bar had was a pin type icon to allow it to stay visible after adding the initial constraint for a set of entities similar to how UGNX does it. On NX if you hold CTRL down while picking entities it will show available constraints that can be added after your first constraint pick.
Another thing I dislike is the inability to use Alt keys to switch between he 3 tabs that display for dimensions. At least you don't have to scroll to the bottom for more Properties but you can't use CTRL+r either.
Michael
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People seem to hate change more these days than ever before.
When 2009 comes out, some will not want to give up 2008!
Chris
SolidWorks 07 4.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
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Regardless, I'm eager to make use of some of the other new stuff--and to see this new interface. Has SW posted the What's New PDF already?
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe transcends reason.
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It helps if you went to a roll out seminar and got to see how it works and where things are. :)
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I like going to the roll-out gigs, since it's a quick way to get caught up with the new stuff--but I just moved and was between VARs--plus our new VAR is quite a drive from here.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe transcends reason.
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Did you know that you can now use any cylindrical surface (instead of an axis) for a circular feature pattern...?
I firmly believe that the "bang" of the added functionality will outweigh the "buck" of the new interface... real soon.
Anybody try the "S" key shortcut menu yet?
The FILLET EXPERT rocks absolutely too...!
I could go on... FAQ376
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Chris
SolidWorks 07 4.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
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Tony Murschel, CSWA
Dual Xeon 5160 10GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro FX 4500
Solidworks 2008 SP0.1 x64
Solidworks 2007 SP4.0 x64
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Searching the feature tree is nice, as are the flyouts when you click on a feature to edit sketch/feature.
The UI seems to bog down the process a little bit more than 2007, but I am working with moderately heavy surface files, so that is to be expected I guess.
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nightmare!
But it works now.
Chris
SolidWorks 07 4.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
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I had found out today, if you are using both SolidWorks and AutoCAD, you need to have SW installed first, then ACAD. SW has add-ins that attach to ACAD.
If you see errors like "lmgrd", etc., SW & ACAD are not communicating well.
If ACAD is installed, uninstall it, then install SW, reinstall ACAD.
If both are installed, with errors, uninstall both then install SW then ACAD.
PITA!
SolidWorks says that it is not a problem having ACAD installed first. This is true for some users, not all. Depending on setup, hardware and license type.
Chris
SolidWorks 08 0.0/PDMWorks 08
AutoCAD 06
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and then:
"Ok, I'm finally getting over the shock of the change. I'm a little happier now since I've opened up some tool bars and arranged them to get a similiar look and feel to that of SW2007."
What a surprise
In my opinion it is very nice and took barely any time at all to get used to. Seems just as, if not more, intuitive than previous versions. My only complaint would be that the graphical loveliness comes at a price - even with 2Gb of RAM it runs noticeably slower
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5 minutes......I didn't say anything about 5 minutes. A lot of background information I left out on purpose. Everyone's situation is different and I was just stating my opinion.
I do agree with you completely about the RAM.
Why is my handle 65Roses?
Please visit http://www.cff.org/aboutCFFoundation/About65Roses/ to learn why!
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog
Dell M90, Core2 Duo
4GB RAM
Nvidia 3500M
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Someone had a video of SolidWorks 95 installing. It took just seconds to install. Fast for sure but you'd lose quite a bit of functionality.
Even after using 2008 just on and off for the last few months, its beginning to be painful to use 2007. The pop up menu is just too quick and find myself greatly missing it when doing "real" work in 2007.
Jason
SolidWorks 2007 SP5.0
SolidWorks 2008 SP0.1
WinXp sp2 (32 and 64 bit)
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I posted this in another forum but for those non 2008 users or 2008 users who don't know about the Shortcut Bar it is a toolbar that comes up depending on what SP you have of 2008 in 0.0 you type S key to have it display but if you use that key for suppress you can pick another I chose B.
If you are in Editing Sketch you can show the toolbar and right click on the background to customize it and drag any icons into it and resize the toolbar rectangle. If you are in Edit Part mode you can type the shortcut bar key you set and see fillets, pattern feature, Rebuild or what ever other valid part toolbar in the shortcut bar which appears next to your cursor when shown. It's very powerful and completely customizable.
Even if you prefer the 2007 UI you'll learn to love the Shortcut bar.
Michael