Routing with 2008

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16 years ago

Mon, Nov 5, 2007 3:49 PM

Well, upgraded to 2008 with no problems... I thought! Then came in Monday morning and all of our library parts are messed up. We primarily use SW premium package for routing as we make gas conditioning systems. These deal with flanges, tees, elbows, etc., etc... Specifically what we've found is the C-point and R-point properties have all been changed in our design tables, which I might add is now located in the cofigurations manager. Now we are forced to go through each table and change these properties so our assemblies will open without errors and with proper rebuilds. Has anyone seen this? Does anyone know what went wrong? And most importantly does anyone know of a quicker fix? Down time's a bitch and our VAR has no good advice.

-Shaggs

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16 years ago

Mon, Nov 5, 2007 5:25 PM

Additional note that may or may not be the problem but in the parameters for a C-point there is a new field "Specification field name". Now I'm not sure if 2007 had that or not but what is happening is our design table's field name has been Specification at C-point. When SW opens it in 2008 it's looking for the "Specification" field of the table and can't find it. Don't know where we got "Specification at C-point" for a field name previously as I wasn't with this company, but this change has reaked havoc this morning.

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16 years ago

Tue, Nov 6, 2007 5:48 AM

a small bit of advice you might consider re new releases

-don't jump in at sp0 and expect not to have issues - there are 2000 or so unfound bugs yet to come - no reason why you should burden your bottom line with finding, reporting and then creating work-arounds or waiting for fixes for them..

-don't jump in mid way through a project and risk having things screw up badly - if you are really unlucky and you didn't keep 07 backup there might even be no going back..just sitting waiting on a mission critical fix..

-don't deploy a release in your company before doing your own testing on a single workstn with typical stuff you do and for extra comfort consider joining the early visibility testing program.