Like many other disallusioned SW 2009 installers on thisforum, we made the mistake of installing SW 2009 on our 4 designworkstations. We thought we learned our lesson in waiting for SP2.0 (like we didn't do in 2008) but I would gladly take 2008 SP 2.0over this one! Our next lesson is read the forums before installingany new version!
After all the hype about improved performance and reduced crashes,faster drawings and 2009 being the year for "focus on stability" wecouldn't wait to install 2009. We have also experienced thehanging, the incredible sloooooowwww performance, and the numerouscrashes. Fortuneately for us we are using PDM so this allows us touninstall 2009 and go back to 2008 SP 5.0, and then roll anyconverted files back to 2008. We also went through the VARsuggestions for video drivers and antivirus being turned off, butwe have to face the fact that 2009 is simply not workable. I haveone assembly that I tried to open 3 times in vain. After 8 minutesof cranking the processor, SW just crashed - three times. 2008would have it open in under 3 minutes no problem.
Speaking of processors, we are running Intel Core II extreme andIntel Xeon processors at around 3 GHz. Vid cards are Nvidea 3500,4500, and two 5500s. XP 32 bit. 4 GB Ram.
My perception is that SW is going the way of bloatware, trying tosnag the additional 20% of the market while ignoring the 80% of uswho just want to get our work done. How many of us actually useInstant 3D, TolAnalyst, RealView Graphics, SWIFT, and on and on???Sure, some of these "features" can be turned off, but some can'tlike Virtual Parts - which cause us 25% of our crashing problems.The other good point that has been made on this forum is this: Howmany of the users who just love 2009 are using 1000+ partassemblies?
I would like to hear suggestions from any user running large(1000+) assemblies with Toolbox (wish I had never heard of Toolbox)parts who has been successful with 2009. Do we look at 64bit OS???
Here's another thought: Maybe if we started voting with our dollarsby turning down the subscription service SW would start hearing the80% of us just trying to get the work done. Sure we would have tosave up that \$1500 to re-subscribe at some future point, buthonestly how many features since 2007 can't you get alongwithout??? Just a thought.SolidworksAdministration
After all the hype about improved performance and reduced crashes,faster drawings and 2009 being the year for "focus on stability" wecouldn't wait to install 2009. We have also experienced thehanging, the incredible sloooooowwww performance, and the numerouscrashes. Fortuneately for us we are using PDM so this allows us touninstall 2009 and go back to 2008 SP 5.0, and then roll anyconverted files back to 2008. We also went through the VARsuggestions for video drivers and antivirus being turned off, butwe have to face the fact that 2009 is simply not workable. I haveone assembly that I tried to open 3 times in vain. After 8 minutesof cranking the processor, SW just crashed - three times. 2008would have it open in under 3 minutes no problem.
Speaking of processors, we are running Intel Core II extreme andIntel Xeon processors at around 3 GHz. Vid cards are Nvidea 3500,4500, and two 5500s. XP 32 bit. 4 GB Ram.
My perception is that SW is going the way of bloatware, trying tosnag the additional 20% of the market while ignoring the 80% of uswho just want to get our work done. How many of us actually useInstant 3D, TolAnalyst, RealView Graphics, SWIFT, and on and on???Sure, some of these "features" can be turned off, but some can'tlike Virtual Parts - which cause us 25% of our crashing problems.The other good point that has been made on this forum is this: Howmany of the users who just love 2009 are using 1000+ partassemblies?
I would like to hear suggestions from any user running large(1000+) assemblies with Toolbox (wish I had never heard of Toolbox)parts who has been successful with 2009. Do we look at 64bit OS???
Here's another thought: Maybe if we started voting with our dollarsby turning down the subscription service SW would start hearing the80% of us just trying to get the work done. Sure we would have tosave up that \$1500 to re-subscribe at some future point, buthonestly how many features since 2007 can't you get alongwithout??? Just a thought.SolidworksAdministration
