SolidWorks Getting Slower with Age?

Thanks Mike! You again confirmed my results using Spec's benchmark. 5-10% each and every version. Again, for those math-limited, that's about 2-4 hours per week to do the same tasks. And don't even pretend that SW2003 -or- 2004 is saving you 2-4 hrs per week with all the new bells and whistles (read: software demo's).

- Eddy

Well, thanks to both you and Mike, it makes me feel better about my test as well.

.. 8^)

Eddy Hicks wrote:

Mike,

Thanks, this is the kind of justification people need to convince the boss not to upgrade. It is objective, repeatable and not subject to much interpretation. And the test is open source. No hidden gimmicks.

By the way I just used your iterati> I did some tests with my "Ship in a Bottle" benchmark

I almost decided to give in and pay the maintenance for this year. I almost figured it would be me who loses in the end since they'll charge me even more later. But with the trash they've been putting out I decided nope. Maybe if some of us stick to our guns and hold back they'll get a message. And if not, it'll be that much easier to switch to something else later this year, since I'll have more to spend :) Once again, let me say that my VAR is top-notch, and I love the software. But I eat crap for no one, no matter who's serving it. For the sake of all of us and our VAR's I hope things start to improve soon.

This is the first time in 8 yrs I held back maintenance fees. The company back then was Autodesk :)

- Eddy

Cool!

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This would be the case if you were always waiting SW but in my case (I am a designer) I spend most of my time thinking rather than modeling. Modeling just come once the idea is more precise and I do it to fix dimensions and details. However for a draftman or somebody that just modelize in a days I understand.

I don't thing I loose 2-4 more hours since 2004 but I really like the new features, they are time saver for me.

I have noticed the main area of slowdown is the 2d drawing.

I agree that drafting and sketching are the most visually noticeable performance problems but I think the file saves, opens, etc. are taking extra time. Likely due to the larger files.

- Eddy

Ok, it's taken me awhile but I ran your ship with the parameters you used:

SW2004sp2.0 (it's for testing) Athlon64 3200+, 1Gb ddr400, QuadroFX1000, 120Gb Raid-0 HD

(your downloaded file saved as 2004sp2) = 29.14063 = 29.15625 = 29.14063

- Eddy

Nice! We finally broke 30 (and with 2004) woohoo!!

Mike

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You do realize that it is just a matter of time before SW steals a page from the video card manufacturers' playbook and starts optimizing SW to perform well on the 'ship in the bottle' benchmark....

Jim (mostly kidding) S.

AHHHHHHHH !!!!

Hey, how did you know about that? I saw some articles on HardOCP a while back about benchmark cheating and how the vid card people tweak their drivers to look good in the tests.

So yes, that thought actually did cross my mind!

Mike

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Damn, so the theory here could be that they tweaked the software to make Spec's benchmark or your benchmark look better for 2004. And yet, it's still 10% slower than 2003 running the same benches. Har :) It's funny to think about that actually being a possibility.

:)

- Eddy

I would like to try this....where do I get the files and macro from??..sorry for the stupid questions,lol...

mail to cd@"NOSPAM"cdignition.com

Thanks

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Here you go...

Enjoy, Mike Wilson

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