I’ve been waiting since it was released to get my hands on SolidWorks 2009. Yesterday, the waiting was over. I’d gone back to my apartment for the day when I got a call from the boss-man informing me that IT wanted to load it and could I come back in. 6 minutes later, I was at the office with the 2009 DVD in my hands. Because I’m testing it, before full release, I created a separate install folder and the install went flawlessly.
I waited until this morning to start playing with it. So far, it’s only locked up once which is a HUGE improvement, compared with all the problems I’ve had with ’08. I’m slowly going through and seeing how the various sub-assemblies, main assembly and drawings react. I’m truly hoping that the performance improvements that have been reported hold true. With all the performance/stability issues I’ve had in ’08, even a 25% improvement would be welcomed.
Stay tuned. As I go through things, I’ll keep you all posted.
FYI – The assembly stats are:
total number of components: 5060
total number of bodies: 11,689
The main assembly file is sitting around 50+MB. The various drawing files range in size from 3.5MB to 40+MB. I’m especially interested to see how ’09 handles the larger drawings, once I’ve converted everything.
