I thought some of us would get a kick out of my title. Seriously , though i have multiple cad and cam programs and have never had a spr , patch, update whatever you want to call it that was recalled. Now don't get me wrong i would buy SW again versus the competition (i would maybe take a look at SolidEdge with its latest changes a little closer though) but what is scary is you want to download SPR to hopefully fix issues you have but yet you may be creating a fiasco. The biggest fear i have is if i update to a SPR is it not going to let my clients on a older SPR like spr 1.0 use my files? Also i think SW needs to revisit there internal control procedures.
Beta Testing SPR's
Jan 26, 2004
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The only time you can't transfer parts, assemblies or drawings is between major versions. SP's there are no problems.
Regards, Scott
"SP's there are no problems."
Yet.
I would imagine that in the halls of SW corporate, there is some soul-searching and some procedure question and answer sessions. It was probably hard for some of the SW employees to be at SW World, and smile to the masses. I imagine that there were and still are some smiles down the road at the rival headquarters.
I still wouldn't jump ship right now, but I do have this nice Pro/E certification here........
Mr. Pickles
Did SP2.0 create a backward compatibility problem or not? Many users here on SW2004 downloaded, applied, and created work with SP2.0 before it was recalled and they report that there was in fact backward compatibility issues, i.e., they could not open those files with SP1.0 rollback. Is this not true??
- Eddy
You betcha!!!
Sorry for my density (pardon the pun) but do you mean it is true or it isn't true? We still use SW2003 for real work and I won't go to SP2.1 if there's a possibility of not being compatible with our non SP2x clients. In other words, we're not compatible with them now being we're a release behind but I don't want to make matters worse by leapfrogging them.
- Eddy
We went to SP2, had problems with BOMs and went back to SP1, couldnt read the models we had created. Its ironic, we had legacy data from a future version!
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Thanks for clarifying. Now that SP2.1 is coincidentally released, I'll try the backward compatibility between 2.1 and 1.0. If all is ok and the SP is otherwise solid then it might be time to move up to '04. Thanks again!
- Eddy
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