Our engineering group has been using SW 2009 for about six months now and regret ever installing the upgrade. There are simply too
many crashes which has caused lost productivity. We have spoke to our I.T. person and he has done everything to help stablilize our system
but SW 2009 simply has too many bugs and software problems to ensure consisten stability. It's as if SW rushed the version out the door, before it
was completely finished. Everything in our culture today is based on the almighty dollar, so I guess I"m not surprised at this.
We wish we would have gone with Autodesk Inventor now, but we'll have to manage what we have.
Don,
You have come to the right place, most people here find Solidworks 2009 to be very stable. I have been keeping track, and I have crashed 10 times since January 1st of this year. I think the last few are due to my 3d mouse, but I can't confirm that. I was actually crashing once per month until I installed it in May.
So, hopefully you weren't just here to rant, I think we can help. Let us know, in great detail:
1. What kind of modeling/assemblies/drawings do you create?
2. What are the FULL system specs of your computer(s)? Processor spec should be something like: Intel Core2Duo E8500.
3. Do you use PDM software? If no, how do you store your files?
4. What mouse do you use, do you use any other input devices, which video card driver are you running, which service pack of 2009 are you using, which OS are you running, is it 32 or 64 bit?
5. Also, what kind of crashes are you getting? How often do they happen? Just with assemblies/etc?
Let us know and there is a good chance we can help fix your problems.