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This is a Microsoft thing. The tilde files are there to let the system know that a program has a file open. When a file is successfully closed the tilde file should go away. If SW terminates unexpectedly the tilde files will remain.

If they remain after SolidWorks closes, delete them. I've been deleting them for years with no problem.

Best Regards, Devon T. Sowell

Hopefully Microsoft gets its act in order with Vista and users can do just that, USE their OS, without all the garbage, garbage collection, garbage man, and garbage fees, garbage separation, etc.

I want VISTA to be something that helps me get my work done rather than causing work...for once.

Rant Over - Bo

You mean you want a Macintosh. :)

"You mean you want a Macintosh. :)"

No! I already have my new MacBook Pro, and it is already running Mac OS X just fine.

But the MacBook Pro is also now running Win XP Pro with SolidWorks just fine, too.

Since SolidWorks won't change from Windows, I hope Vista indeed proves to be a better b_tch to run than XP.

Bo

ahhhhaaa....thanks for the explanation.

Bo, I'm feeling sorry to smash your great expectations, but... According to what I've heard vista will be exactly the same as XP without any major improvement besides a lot of unnecessary fancy-memory consuming effects like 3D effects inside the OS interface. it will require a minimum hardware of Pentium IV 2.6 GHz + many GB in HD space for the system and applications to run! so I'm afraid that in the effectiveness and speed of system it will bring the next generation of computers which are based on the next generation of Intel/AMD processors to the same speed/computing power of today (in a short sentence: it will be an OS which wastes much more of the computer hardware resources). In general Microsoft is going to aim to the general public which wants a cool OS with lots of fancy colour/sound/Effects and so on -not good news to those of us who use our machine for daily work!

in a recent thread on this NG I've read from someone that Microsoft has also decided to abandon the OpenGL part of windows in the upcoming Vista edition, so is another good news for the gamers (directX will be strengthened instead) and bad news for the CAD users and developers.

I hope I'm wrong, but in the mean time I advise everyone not to develop to much expectations from the upcoming Vista OS.

just my two cents..

Gil

IMO it' a mistake for CAD programmers to sleep with Bill. No one can figure out who's supposed to change the sheets. They be getting really sloppy. It's a trick for some of them just to get a stable upgrade install.

UGNX and Pro/E both run on Linux platforms. I hope it's a trend that will trickle down. Least serious CAD developers can do is Stop the Windozification.

Gil, I would jump up and down with glee, if SolidWorks were to move off to a "Nix" of some type, so that the reliance on a dinosaur codebase could be abandoned.

I can run most any Unix on my Macintoshes, with more ease than ever, now that they use Intel chips, and indeed am running SolidWorks on WinXP on my MacBook Pro now...fast.

I just don't know if the COST of converting SolidWorks to Unix/Linux will allow it to happen anytime soon.

A friend of mine worked with McEleney (Computervision) prior to when SolidWorks was founded and then was CEO of a company developing software solutions using Windows NT based on Gate's & Ballmer's promises of delivering an "industrial strength OS". My friend now hates Windows as an OS for touchy work, and I gathered that there has been discontent @ SolidWorks. The difference between discontent and putting out a whole new OS is a MASSIVE AMOUNT OF WORK.

SolidWorks management would have to get Dessault corporate to agree to spend the money and time, if they wanted to bring out a dual OS SolidWorks. I wonder if that will happen any time soon?

Bo

There should be no need to delete them. SolidWorks will replace them when you reopen the files, and will clean-up after itself the next time you close (without a crash). Even thinking about these files is a waste of your time.

RE: ["If"] they remain after SolidWorks closes, delete them. I've been deleting them for years with no problem.

During the past 7 years, this has been my experience, also, during the design process, I rename files on the fly, so some of these Tilde files still remain.

Best Regards, Devon T. Sowell