Why there are so many errors in SolidWorks? Does anyone know? (with some pictures and videos)

It looks like a lot of graphics issues. I'm assuming your graphics card and driver are approved?

classic. we encounter the cosmetic thread problem regularly, pattern bugs.....apply a few and suddenly it stops working, missing views, ghost images, PDM icons and many more which SW know about but seemingly refuse to acknowledge. We need a forum to address these non-repeatable, but repeating issues which cannot be RX'd as VAR's aren't acknowledging this type of 'generic' software problem either.

P.Lane.

SW 2014 has more bugs and crashes more often than all of the previous versions I've used COMBINED.

I dont think Inventor is any more stable than SW I use both daily and will gladly pick SW or Inventor.  Inventor crashes continously and not to mention all the other functional issues that come with adaptive design.  We constantly have issues with the vault server and part mismatch for unknow reasons, constraints are horrible and the preview never works,  I can keep going on and on,  so dealing with a few graphical issues, I can deal with that.

Half of the time, I get an error message when sending the crash report...

Crashes !!! Today I created an EPIC in our in-house issue reporting system on SW crashes - a tasting -

Many are probably due to running very large assemblies on under-spec workstations on a 100Mb connection.

Others we know are caused by the interaction between SW with Windows 7.

While others are just spurious problems that SW has.

Occurrences while - Editing files, saving and exiting, changing windows, modifying a note, changing sheets, importing a model into an assy, while demonstrating functionality (oops), during a pack & go, saving eng database in flow simulation, re-activating after using another program, opening tools menu, while creating a file to print, while printing, dragging table edges in dwg to meet border, black screen of death, spinning images until crash, won't even start, crashes while left idle, from a fresh boot, fresh session, 'worm chasing its tail', while working in another application!, white screen, lock-ups and eventual kill or crash, shutdown & restart - stuck!, tree crash, while recommending large assy mode, minimizing & maximizing, while deleting dimensions.

I tried that with the Calypso software from Carl Zeiss for Coordinate Measuring Machines.  They even went so far as too announce that certain bugs were fixed, when they clearly weren't.

All of my templates have the Quality Level set just below the Red Line.  The level doesn't always change, so I haven't been able to come up with a guaranteed way to reproduce it.  I just swear at the computer and move the slider back to where it should be, when it does occur...

Just rolled back a part file and the image quality dropped to zero...  The assembly wasn't even open, just the part...

As I suggested earlier in this discussion - please get your VAR to camp out at your company and solve (at least mitigate) the problems. If they are not willing to do so, find another VAR who will. With 21 machines, another VAR would probably be more than anxious to get the business.

Philip.

I know what you mean, I use 3d studio max allot and I
was astounded to learn that HT was still causing issues with the software and
switching it off in the Bios actually reduced render times. Again it’s a show
of how fast tech is advancing leaving behind issues and businesses out of
breath trying to keep up. I think there is defiantly a short fall in people who
can full understand the latest capability of a particular innovation and
utilise it to its full potential, that’s to say in some case’s we do not yet
have the tech to fully utilise new ideas so we start the cycle again.

Yes, Jeff. Of course that's what we do with repeatable issues that can be captured. What we're generally talking about here are the many non-repeatables that so many users suffer from and have complained about for a long time. VAR's & Sw tend not to acknowledge them, but we notice that sometimes they go away after a new cut....most don't and are a daily annoyance and a cause of inefficiency and cost.

Thanks.