Shape Feature will not be supported in SW 2010

[rfus]

Has anyone seen this message in 09:

Warning Shape Feature1 - The Shape Feature will not be supported in SolidWorks 2010. We recommend that you replace this feature by a Freeform feature type.

While I am not a big fan of this feature, it was very useful to the industrial design of the shape of this one product, where a feature set that used the shape feature early on made a base shape was saved as six different parts (didn't do configs v parts cause the shape wasn't going to change), which were all placed and mated with the same planes in an assembly, and then in-contextualy edited to form 6 idfferent parts all based on this initial shape. Now all parts and assemblies are compaining about the shape feature and telling me to replace it with a free form. There is no way this can happen as it blows things up, and there are a couple hundred features after this shape feature in each part. It looks like this part will never make it into 2010, or I'm gonig to have to dump these parts as parasolids.

Does anyone else use shape just so I know before I make a request to SW to keep it?

rfus

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Not me. I think I tried it once just to see what it did. Have absolutely no use for it in my line of work. Sorry.

 

[fcsuper]

If your company is big enough, or your need large enough, you may be able to get SW corp to help you with converting the models. It seems odd that this feature would no longer be supported. I would confirm with your VAR. Something may have changed, or maybe your request will change their minds.

Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
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[GoWithTheFlo]

Maybe they wont develop or improve it anymore, but I doubt they will trash it completely. You should still be able to import it from old files.

A good example would be Excel BOM. They arent really featured anymore as the SW BOMs are now better for the job. You can however still use them when opening an old part.

We'll see.

 

[rfus]

The warning seems pretty stern, indicating to me that I better get rid of this feature if these parts are going to rebuild in 2010. It has also thrown up the triangle/! mark up and turned the text brown in the feature tree on the subassems and parts, which just bugs me and looks like sloppy modeling. Maybe its my OCD acting up.

We aren't very big, so I doubt they will bend over backwards. There is no way to perfectly recreate this shape by using freeform, so their suggestion is no good.

rfus

 

[SBaugh]

Have you contacted your VAR and have them ask SW to see if its going to be supported or will it cause your files to fail.

I think I would be finding out, before throwing a fit over something that may still support if you use it in the past.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

"If it's not broke, Don't fix it!"

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[CorBlimeyLimey]

The warning is very explicit.