Is there a particular service pack we should avoid? I had some issues with smart mates when I went to 2017 sp 5.0, the smart mates had a real bad bug that caused me to go back to sp 2.0. And I'm still dealing with the remnants of the real bad bug that came out in 2016 https://forum.solidworks.com/message/573923#comment-573923 that causes routes to lose dimensions & relations, has that been fixed?.
Frank Ungaro wrote:
And I'm still dealing with the remnants of the real bad bug that came out in 2016 https://forum.solidworks.com/message/573923#comment-573923 that causes routes to lose dimensions & relations, has that been fixed?.
According to KB, that fix has been implemented.
Tom, that's good to hear but I looked in the fixed SPR list for 2018 SP 2.0 (which is when the fix was allegedly implemented, according to the KB) & SP 4.0, tried to search for SPR #981206, but it doesn't appear on the list so It make me wonder if in fact it has been fixed.
Can anyone confirm it's been fixed?
Tom, just as I thought, there is no fix in 2018 SP 2. Downloaded SW 2018 & tried with a couple of different assemblies and they both had issues of dropping dimensions, relations in the pipe route... what doesn't come up is is the misleading dialog box.
That doesn't sound like much of a fix. Thanks for feeding back.
i used routing extensively in SW2015, with lots of crashes and many problems. I dropped maintenance and picked it back up with SW2018, and i think the routing has improved somewhat (still crashes though). The smart mates certainly work much better on drag-n-drop. The routing library wizards are better. Although i have noticed that picking routes and finding route handles seems to be more difficult. I can not get flip through clips to work at all now, and i can't get inflection points to show up, even though they are toggled on.
I can confirm that a lot of 'bad issues' are solved in 2018. Also with RLM - it's work (I can't say it about RLM in 2015 and 2016 )!
Aleksander Ksiezopolski wrote:
I can confirm that a lot of 'bad issues' are solved in 2018. Also with RLM - it's work (I can't say it about RLM in 2015 and 2016 )!
Good for you Aleksander.
The RLM kind of sort of worked ever so briefly for us during '17SP05. It never did before nor since.
On top of that just today I ended up not being able to edit a route because for some reason it did decided to roll back the Route feature which made it impossible to edit the route until I dug to the lowest level to see that it did that.
It constantly reverts back to the last elbow you used when setting up a new route. Sounds neat, except for those of us that use lots of different elbow types in lots of different materials. Even more so considering that if you need more then one type in 1 route then you constantly have to force the program to not use type A but type C even if only the very first elbow is type A and all others are type C.
Not to mention the "error missing elbow" problems when there isn't an elbow in sight nor needed, e.g. in the middle of a T while all legs of the T are perpendicular to each other.l
Or the "error failed to penetrate" on the end of a pipe that isn't connected to anything, at all.
Or routes that show that they have red errors no matter if you do an update or force update or rebuild. No, the red marks disappear when you do an edit of the route not do a thing and exit edit mode. Which turns them in to yellow errors. So you go back into edit mode and back out again and tàdà no more errors. Until the next time you open anything that has that route in it.
2018 seems to be not as bad as some of the previous versions but it still needs lots of work.
I still think routing in 2018 needs a ton of work. It is incredibly frustrating to use. I still have all of these issues mentioned in this thread
The not being able to flip the direction is killer for me since for some reason 3d sketch line it creates is randomly in the opposite direction of the arrow and it cant be dragged or moved to the other direction.
Some things are very hard to select and some times a random CPoint is unselectable when using auto route.
For some reason it also automatically puts you into a sketch for some reason unnecessarily.
The whole feature very frustrating to use. From reading different threads it sounds like this has been an issue since 2016, pretty disappointing.
Install 2018 and test it on one computer first.
I have 2016 and 2018 on mine.
I was using 2016 and have 2018 setup and change file locations in option so they use their own template and toolbox.
Tested 2018 for a week then stop using 2016.