2008 Bugs

I've recently upgraded to 2008, (against my better judgement, I loaded e-drawings 2008 to see a clients file and it screwed up e-drawings in PDMworks) and am unable to highlight a temporary axis in a drawing. Has anyone else noticed this or found a work around? My VAR says the developers know about it and are working on a fix but the loss of such basic functionality is discouraging. I searched this newsgroup to get others impressions of 2008 stability but most of the conversation seemed off topic

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AlDman
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bob z. saw this behavior as well. you can pick the temporary axis. it just APPEARS like you haven't. seriously, try it. :~)>

bob z.

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bob zee

Most likely your dynamic highlight got turned off - it does that periodically. Go look at the setting for Display/Selection - Dynamic highlight from graphics view. Also check the other one, while you are there, under FeaatureManager.

WT

snipped-for-privacy@34g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > I've recently upgraded to 2008, (against my better judgement, I loaded

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Wayne Tiffany

Nope turned both those on but still can't get a temporary axis to highlight when selected. Unless it's the same color highlighted as normal but I have the default colors selected and cant seem to alter it. I can change the color of a temp axis but still can't see it when selected. Can't imagine this has persisted to sp04.

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AlDman

HELLO !!?? Listen to Bob Zee. It only APPEARS to not be selected. It actually is (or so it has been my experience) selected. Just click as if you are selecting it and assume it is. Make your next selection and proceed as normal.

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jlbeen

HELLO !!?? Listen to Bob Zee. It only APPEARS to not be selected. It actually is (or so it has been my experience) selected. Just click as if you are selecting it and assume it is. Make your next selection and proceed as normal.

Ok, but it still begs the question as to why I can see them selected and he can not, whether SW actually has it selected or not.

WT

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Wayne Tiffany

Highlighted color in 2008 is blue. axis color is blue.

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DaisyFlower

I'm only one 3.0 but haven' noticed this problem. Perhaps it is a video card issue. Check on the SW site to make sure you have an approved 2008 driver.

Jerry Steiger

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Jerry Steiger

Thanks for all the comments. jlbeen, I know it only appears not to be selected, you can still align to it, but you can't be sure you picked the one you wanted, no less debilitating. Jerry: my graphics card appears to be approved be SW, GE Force 7900 GS. I would hope upgrading to 2008 wouldn't force a graphics card purchase. And Daisy, I always try the simplest fix first. No matter what color you set construction geometry to they don't highlight to another color when picked. The question now is: Is this the first of many bugs in 2008. Should I return to 2007 before I change too many models for this to be possible? When will Solidworks test new versions before releasing them?

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AlDman

Jerry: my graphics card appears to be approved be SW, GE

I don't think any of the GeForce cards are approved by SW. Those are gaming cards. Go for a Quadro instead.

// Krister

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Krister_L

IT CERTAINLY IS APPROVED

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AlDman

Yes...under tested but not recommended

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Krister_L

Sorry.....last post went off too early. As I said before it's under tested but not recommended, and as far as I can see the none of the GeForce's has passed the tests for SW 2008 or SW2009

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Krister_L

LOL, even the recommended cards do not work correctly with Solidworks. I spent mega bucks getting a recommended one, Nvidia 3400, when they came out and guess what? It did and still does, shows the same errors as an Nvidia 1400 go card, pmsl

Do NOT get a new card, instead sent the files to someone you trust, (with a recommended card), and see in they have the same errors. I bet they will see the same thing.

It seems that Solidworks files behaves differently on every different and even on the same system, as each day passes!

NOW for the Solidworks lovers out there, this is NOT all Solidworks fault, yes............. you read this line correctly!

Talk to your VAR about the registery tip about renaming the Solidwork entry, nooo... not the current user entry, but the local machine one, when logged in as LOCAL administrator.

Here's another one, when upgrading releases and even when using the service packs, you MUST be logged in as the LOCAL machine administrator, not the domain administrator or as the user. This solved, a good 70% of problems and errors, that I was seeing.

Sort of stuffs up the settings, if you use the image file on a domain server, as then you are not on a LOCAL admin account.

Copy the FULL, downloaded files, onto your local machine. Log on, using only the LOCAL administrator account, even if you have an administrator account. Really, they do work differently. Then do a repair using the Solidworks installation manager.

Have a good day !

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pfarnham

Makes me want to paraphrase Bones: I'm a mechanical engineer Jim not an IT administrator. No mention of any of this in the upgrade instructions. I'll run it past our IT guy next time he's up from London. The solidworks users should stop upgrading. The pressure to upgrade comes from the need to transfer files not the need for any functional enhancements. I think there's a few technocrats with way too much free time that upgrade. Working engineers don't want to. Just say no to

2009!
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AlDman

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