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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
For the last year or so, with the emphasis on stability, most of the service packs have been running a few weeks behind the published schedule. Personally, I'd rather have them take their time to try to get it right instead of rushing to meet a deadline.
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
Glenn Schroeder wrote:
For the last year or so, with the emphasis on stability, most of the service packs have been running a few weeks behind the published schedule. Personally, I'd rather have them take their time to try to get it right instead of rushing to meet a deadline.
Amen to that brother!!
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
Same here.
We have enough trouble with Windows 10 update already.
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
I agree, but my IT dept is lazy and I had to go thru hell and back to have them update me to SP3, but my graphics card had an out of date driver, so instead of just updating the driver, my 1-old man IT dept, decided that I needed a whole new computer, so when he did that, my driver is still out of date and he never re-installed SP 3, so I have been using SP0.1 since, because I didn't want to ask for SP3, thinking that SP4 was being released soon, because if I had them update SP3, then a month later 4.0 came out then it would've been another headache. So basically I have been waiting a long time for 4.0......Now do you guys feel my pain?
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
I had IT give me complete access and control to everything SolidWorks/PDM related. I'm the admin for all of it, in addition to my engineering work. I can't rely on IT to do because they don't understand it, and yes, they are lazy.
Every update and take care of, and test, and do the training.
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Yeah, that would never happen. I don't like my IT admin and he doesn't like me and my boss thinks I'm just complaining all the time, well neither one of them uses Solidworks or understands the importance of these service packs or out of date drivers.
Yet my boss wants me to get things done, but its hard when computer freezes/crashes, parts disappear or won't mate, etc, I could go on and on....you all know what I'm talking about. It just gets really old after a while. Having to deal with it daily.
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
Chris James wrote:
I agree, but my IT dept is lazy and I had to go thru hell and back to have them update me to SP3, but my graphics card had an out of date driver, so instead of just updating the driver, my 1-old man IT dept, decided that I needed a whole new computer, so when he did that, my driver is still out of date and he never re-installed SP 3, so I have been using SP0.1 since, because I didn't want to ask for SP3, thinking that SP4 was being released soon, because if I had them update SP3, then a month later 4.0 came out then it would've been another headache. So basically I have been waiting a long time for 4.0......Now do you guys feel my pain?
This is when it's nice to be a one man engineering / IT department. I take care of all of these things myself.
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
I'm feeling your pain that you prematurely updated to 2018. The objectively correct time to upgrade is always when sp 4 is released .
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
Yes, but I had to, because when I started here just 7 months ago they had SW 2015, so thinking that they would have no problem updating the SP's I took my chances. But from now on, yeah I will wait it out till SP3 or 4.
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
If your I.T. is a one man band, why not ask your company to take care of your the IT part of your job? You could become your own CAD Admin and upgrade your SP's yourself!
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
Scott Sanson
Aug 6, 2018 3:45 PM
We're looking to have the full 2018 SP04 release made available later this week. Stay tuned and thanks for your patience!
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
Scott Sanson wrote:
We're looking to have the full 2018 SP04 release made available later this week. Stay tuned and thanks for your patience!
@scott
Will it fix the issue with ?
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
Scott Sanson
Aug 7, 2018 1:05 PM
Once 2018 SP04 is live, the "Fixed SPRs" page will be updated to reflect what's been resolved in this service pack. This page will allow you to view by product or filter by text, e.g. "revision," to see if your reported issue is fixed.
It does looks like several revision table fixes are noted in the 2018 SP04 EV release on that page already.
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
I checked the sprs and the list seemed quite extensive and was pretty happy quite a few of the problems I have been having in 2018 should be fixed. Well so far so good I think it's been a week and I'm not seeing some problems anymore.
On the flip side I am more than a little disappointed. If I knew at 2018 sp2 I would have been having all the problems I have had well I would never have loaded it on until at least sp4. One of the SPR fixes related to save and relations broken has cost me serious amounts of down time and therefore money.
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
Sp 4.0 is already there on the download page
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Any idea why I get this error. Updating from 3.0 to 4.0
I have tried re-downloading.....
Howard
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
There could be a chance that you antivirus or windows has blocked that file. Just to avoid these kinds of issues I always unblock the files first as mentioned in this post Fixing SOLIDWORKS Blank Installation Manager Issue (do not worry due to the title of the post but follow the steps).
Reply back with the outcome.
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I did as you suggested, installation failed again.
Grumble, grumble........
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
So, nothing to do with anti-virus or MSSE....
The error message tells me that a file is not included in the cabinet file......
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
It seems like that you're not using the SOLIDWORKS installation manager to install? Can you try using the installation manager and see if that helps.
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
This is required for activation of SOLIDWORKS and related tools. This is included when you download SOLIDWORKS but there might be some products for which you may need the activation tool separately.
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I thought this is merely to upgrade the version not update. For example if you already have the latest version, say 2018 and you want to upgrade to latest SP then you can use this, I tried but failed.
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
As the name states "activation wizard", it is used to activate the license(s) of the installed product. To upgrade the SP you need ot download the installation manager for that SP or the SP file.
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
In the same table installation manager for SP upgrade is not given. What is the reason for that?
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
Maha Nadarasa wrote:
In the same table installation manager for SP upgrade is not given. What is the reason for that?
The installation manager is part of the SP download. It's not a separate download. Actually you're downloading the installation manager. It downloads the actual SP upgrade.
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
I installed SW18 SP4.0 and I am unable to "make drawing from part or assembly". I am able to open our custom templates on their own without any problems, but when I want to make a drawing from the part or assembly, my Solidworks crashes when accessing the custom template. They were working fine in SW17 SP4.0. File locations are correct. I have also tried moving them to a new location but they still crash.
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
"Make drawing from part or assembly" is working fine for me on 2018 SP 4.0.
Can you start a new blank drawing file without any model inserted? If yes then save that drawing as your template or in other words, I want to you save your drawing templates to latest version and then try making drawings from model.
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
I contacted my VAR and they said "There is an issue with Solidworks 2018, which is Solidworks crashes when opening drawing template that contains “'$PRP:'<PROPERTY VALUE>” under Value/text Expression of the drawing template’s file property, if the property name is the same as its value".
SPR 1058573 has been created to resolve this. Quick fix was to change the property name to something different to the property value eg. adding an underscore after the last character of the property name.
SPR 1058573
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
I have another issue with upgrading to SW2018 SP4.0. I am trying to link dimensions and add a value. It does not work. The error is “The syntax of this equation is not correct”. Was working fine in SW2017 SP4.0.
Is there a fix for this?
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
Jonathan, are you able to post an image of the equation/dimension value in question so that we can double check the syntax?
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Hi Albie, I contacted my VAR and they provided me with the following solution:-
It appears the problem is related to VBA, this also affects the Toolbox and equations.
A Knowledge base (S-072671) was addressed for this , I have copied it below for your reference:
This behaviour can occur if there is a problem with the 'swvbaserver.exe' file on the client computer.
1. Rename the VBA folder.
a. In Windows Explorer, browse to ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\VBA’.
b. Rename the existing ‘\VBA7’ folder to something like '\VBA7.old'.
c. Copy the ‘\VBA7’ folder from a computer that does not have this problem, and paste it in the same location as the renamed folder.
- 2. Restart the SOLIDWORKS application and see if it helps.
- 3. Close the SOLIDWORKS application and the toolbox, and then install the following files on the computer manually from the SOLIDWORKS DVD or download:
∙ [DVD/download]\PreReqs\VBA\vba71.msi
∙ [DVD/download]\PreReqs\VBA\vba71_1033.msi(for English or your language specific msi)
∙ [DVD/download]\PreReqs\VBA\vba71-kb2783832-x64.msp
- 4. If you are installing the files from an administrative image:
∙ [admin_image_dir]\<64_or_32_bit>\Microsoft_VBA\vba71.msi
∙ [admin_image_dir]\<64_or_32_bit>\Microsoft_VBA_1033\vba71_1033.msi(for English or your language specific msi)
∙ [admin_image_dir]\<64_or_32_bit>\Microsoft_VBA_KB2783832\vba71-kb2783832-x64.msp
- 5. Register ‘swvbaserver.exe’
a. Close the SOLIDWORKS application. Make sure that there are no instances of ‘sldworks.exe’ running in Task Manager.
b. Open a Windows command prompt as Administrator.
c. Change directory to the SOLIDWORKS installation folder (the folder location of the ‘sldworks.exe’ file).
d. At the command prompt, type ‘sldworks.exe /regserver’ > press Enter. This command registers the sldworks.exe and swvbaserver.exe files. This should solve the problem.
- 6. Perform a clean reinstall of the VBA software.
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Re: When will Solidworks 2018 SP 4.0 finally be released?
Jonathan Albert , Am glad to hear that your VAR was able to help!
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