I've recently had problems with modifying joint nodes in this version of the software when doing beam analysis. SolidWorks has confirmed this is a regression in 2008 SP5 and will not be fixed in this version.
I'm running some FEA on tanks and vessels and am finding the computer is crashing the dof reach about 700,000. At other times the CPU usage is hitting the maximum causing processing delays.
The machine is a HP XW4600 with 4GB RAM (2x2 GB DDR2-800 ECC), Intel Core 2 duo E6850 chip and and Quadro...