I went to a 2009 rollout last Thursday and saw all that I’d heard about, excluding PhotoView 360.
I do like everything I saw, but it’ll mean so much more when I actually get to use it. SpeedPack looks like a great time saver, but time will tell. Then I wonder what happens to it if you do a “replace components” on it or on the component(s) you’ve chosen for it.
The drawing improvements, speed-wise, look good. While I’m realizing it a bit late, it would be nice to see more flexibility in section callouts. Actually, more flexibility in annotations period. Being able to customize the look of section callouts would certainly be a nice thing. Granted, not many people are utilizing SolidWorks for architecture, but there have to be others out there who would like to see more functionality out of annotations.
All in all, the improvements look good, but the proof will be in the pudding. It’s nice to see that SolidWorks corp focused on some things other than bells and whistles, but I want to see how ’09 performs in real life and not through canned demos.
From what I’ve seen, I’ll give it a B for now. Once I get my hands on it, I reserve the right to change my mind.
By the way, I’m writing this, and posting it, from my iPhone. What a cool phone it is!
GO SOX!
Oct
04
SolidWorks 2009 – My Take
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Adam Scheible
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Adam Scheible