I prefer to think of myself as a lab rat personally, but the concept is the same. Will get it installed tomorrow after the over night DL. Will report back when it's done.
No--the site, once again, is rather cryptic (and still has problems with browsers other than Explorer). Hit the Getting Started link, as Jeff mentioned, and you'll eventually find an area where you can download the What's New PDF. I'm perusing it now, and that will likely be all the time I can squeeze into this edition of Beta.
Looks like a lot of effort went into PV360 which is good. I noticed a handful of other improvements elsewhere that I will keep my fingers crossed for as well.
Ok, came accross the first problem with 2010. Had half of my Routing library converted to 2010 format after the file conversion got away from us. Of course, that could just as easily be PEBCAK.
the file conversion wizard in the task manager is dangerous. you pick the files in the directory, and you'd think that it would only covert files in the directory you specify, but it goes after all references. It is not until you hit the convert button that is shows every file it is going to go after. It goes into your toolbox and routing library. It goes after all in-context. I've even seen it find broken ref's. I hate it. Once you hit the button, it just goes and doesn't stop. Hopefully you checked backup. Looks like they didn't really improve this feature from 09 to 10.
Did any of you get to test any of the drawing package yet?
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2009 SP 3.0
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer
I have played with the drawing package a bit and found some of the new features to be both blessing and curse. I think on the whole I'll like the new way they handle dimensions now, but it's going to take some getting used to. The component reference feature is nice, but I think needs some tweaking before it becomes anything more than a toy. Mouse gestures are nice, though tough to choose what I want assigned.
we were lucky to have a back up of the data, now All I'm suffering form is stuff in my personal working directory being in a future version. That'll just be a matter of a PDM overwrite though, as I find things.
No need to wait until 2010 for mouse gestures. Just download StrokeIt freeware. Advantage: StrokeIt works in any program, not just SW. StrokeIt is application-aware, so you can customize the same stroke to do different things in different apps. StrokeIt basically sends hotkeys, so anything you can assign to a hotkey in SW can then have that hotkey assigned in StrokeIt.
I ran stroke it for awhile and found it to be horribly unstable in my system configuration and mouse gestures between programs annoying to remember and get to actuate. The set up in 2010 is much simpler, eight equidistant points around a circle, each with it's own command. Hold down RMB drag to the point of the command you want. Benefit, they can be directly linked to commands in SW without having to assign hot keys first.
