12 Replies Latest reply on May 20, 2010 2:42 PM by Chris Challinor

SW has a Mind of its own, keeps losing it as well

Chris Challinor May 7, 2010 3:07 PM

Annoyances so far, and no I can not duplicate them.....these issues just seem to happen for no reason at any given time....

Image quality, keeps changing back to its lowest setting.............have to go into options and reset it

Mates, go into conflicting mode, have to delete them and then re-mate the parts in the exact same way......seems to be a configuration issue.

Save a file and get a gray screen with white block popping up all over the screen......

Save As PDF, works, or wont work, goes fast, takes forever..........very inconsistent.

Note Editing, when dragging one note to another location in a drawing and your not careful and drag over an existing note the notes will get combined automatically

MEMORY LEAKS, STILL HAVE THEM, SW WONT RELEASE MEMORY RIGHT..........................FIX IT ALREADY, this has been going on for years.

Open a DXF file, select sheet template, but when finshed opening it has the wrong sheet size and template..........

Revision table, top row has merged and centered cells, text will only fit in left columns size (word REVISIONS ends up being REVISIO)....

This is just for starters, who else has similar issues?

Re: SW has a Mind of its own, keeps losing it as well

Charles Culp May 7, 2010 3:25 PM (in response to Chris Challinor)

Image Quality: Have you changed this in your part template? It is part specific, so part templates, and any part already created need to be adjusted. Also, if you alter it in an assembly, and then save the assembly, it will not flag the part to be saved as well. It may assume that the part is "up to date" because there were no changes, if the only change was to the image quality.

Memory Leaks: SW2011 preview at SWWorld 2019 showed them fixing memory leaks. They did this by releasing all associated memory when part files are closed. If it works as shown it should be nice, we'll see if it actually makes a huge difference when it comes out.
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  Chris Challinor May 7, 2010 3:36 PM (in response to Charles Culp)
  
  Then to me, Image Quality should be a System Option..........that way Image Quality would be the same across all SW items (Drawings, Parts, and Assemblies).
  
  My understanding of what you said is I have to go into every template I have (a lot BTW) and change the image quality setting in each one................IMHO, Who the "F" thought that was a good idea. Pardon my curse......
  
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    Alin Vargatu May 8, 2010 9:05 AM (in response to Chris Challinor)
    
    Looks like you need to open an ER.
    
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  Chris Challinor May 20, 2010 2:42 PM (in response to Charles Culp)
  
  It was a pain in the butt to re-do the templates......but that worked, thanks Charles
  
  Here is where I am at right now, by June I have to decide if I want to keep my subscription...........with the load of annoyances and bugs we STILL have I am having a hard time justifying the cost to keep the subscription.
  
  On the other hand, without it I cant get the fixes due to the fact that even though I have SW 2010 we do not get patches for the current version without the subscription (this is something that seriously needs to be changed).
  
  It may be more cost effective (due to the loss of work, productivity drains, and just general non-reliability of SW) to totally change our CAD software.
  
  Any thoughts???
  
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Daniel Smith May 7, 2010 3:28 PM (in response to Chris Challinor)

Save As PDF, works, or wont work, goes fast, takes forever..........very inconsistent.

Yup

Note Editing, when dragging one note to another location in a drawing and your not careful and drag over an existing note the notes will get combined automatically

Drives me nuts

Mates, go into conflicting mode, have to delete them and then re-mate the parts in the exact same way......seems to be a configuration issue.

This has happened to me, I thought it was a mistake I made somewhere. Next time I'll pay more attention.
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  Fortino Lopez May 8, 2010 6:37 PM (in response to Daniel Smith)
  
  Mates, go into conflicting mode, have to delete them and then re-mate the parts in the exact same way......seems to be a configuration issue.
  
  This has happened to me, I thought it was a mistake I made somewhere. Next time I'll pay more attention.
  Yep, we've experienced the same thing; must be a glitch since there's no logic to the re-ordering of mates. Also same thing happens for connectors under simulation, they get re-assigned or even go missing. The annoying thing is that we can't reproduce these "bonus features" at will. Maybe there's a hidden hotkey named "randomize mates."
  
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Chris Challinor May 7, 2010 4:09 PM (in response to Chris Challinor)

and another one, why dose every sheet except the sheet you are viewing jump up, to the left when saving as a PDF........being anal I have to go and recenter all of the sheets and resave.......
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Cynthia Ayres May 7, 2010 4:44 PM (in response to Chris Challinor)

Note editing: This was a new 'feature' for 2010 where you can combine notes together. It is rather annoying to me as well since I never use it. There's a reason why I created them separately in the first place.

Mates: Yep, this is an issue for me as well, only deleting and re-mating solves this.

I've had a weird issue concerning design tables. It seems that you can only go in to edit (in new window) a few times before SW no longer lets you back in. I have to close all my files along with the program, then open up SW again.
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  Alin Vargatu May 8, 2010 9:04 AM (in response to Cynthia Ayres)
  
  To avoid combining notes upon dragging, make sure you press your SHIFT key. The only drawback is that you do not get a preview when dragging.
  
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Re: SW has a Mind of its own, keeps losing it as well

Chris Challinor May 7, 2010 5:26 PM (in response to Chris Challinor)

I forgot my favorite annoyance, in a drawing a view just disappears, poof........magic.......gone. All the balloons and text are there, but not the part / assembly.

I fix this by "hiding" the veiw, then hitting the undo button.......................
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  Glenn Schroeder May 8, 2010 11:07 AM (in response to Chris Challinor)
  
  I occasionally have trouble with this one too. It usually seems to be on Detail Views. I can usually get it back by going to a different view, such as shaded with lines or line drawing, and then back, but not always.
  
  By the way, that note combining deal is annoying too. How about making it so you hold down the shift key if you DO want them to combine? I think the combining was definitely an "enhancement" that no one wanted.
  
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    Alin Vargatu May 8, 2010 9:47 AM (in response to Glenn Schroeder)
    
    excellent idea about the use of SHIFT key!!! Just reverse its functionality.
    
    This should be implemented ASAP.
    
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