CAD Forum

Ronan wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 6:39 am Has anyone seen this is SW 2023 SP3.0image.png
What is _$$ dummy@@_
The files open ok and Ctrl Q does get rid of it.

Ronan wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 6:39 am Has anyone seen this is SW 2023 SP3.0image.png
What is _$$ dummy@@_
The files open ok and Ctrl Q does get rid of it.

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 9:19 am Welp, today's the big day.

AlexB wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 9:21 am Good luck! Sounds like you don't have to worry about a PDM upgradedate... I'm jealous.

bnemec wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 9:35 amFIFY

AlexB wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 9:21 am Good luck! Sounds like you don't have to worry about a PDM upgrade... I'm jealous.

SPerman wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 3:42 pm I am waiting to see how things go for you.

SPerman wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 3:42 pm I am waiting to see how things go for you. While I don't really want to upgrade, especially to an SP3, 2022 SP5 crashes often enough that its forcing me. Earlier in the year I was on W10 and different hardware. Now I'm on W11 with the same video card, but different MB et al. I don't remember it crashing that often before the upgrade, but so many things have changed its hard to blame it on the OS.

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Mon Aug 21, 2023 7:57 am Well, today is the first day the company is officially on SolidWorks 2023. Half of the employees are in vacation for this week because daycares aren't opened yet and school only restarts next week.

Still, we should be able to see bugs if there are some that do occur.

SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:50 am Hopefully they've fixed the "open drawing" bug from 2022 SP5.

RichGergely wrote: ↑Mon Aug 21, 2023 1:11 pm I'm still on the wall about loading SP3, currently on 2021 sp5.1

I guess I might as well wait now until sp5 comes along unless anyone thinks it's night and day from 2021? (which I doubt). 2021 isn't running bad on my machine if that is any help.

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:56 am What was the behavior..? It seems to work on my end.

SPerman wrote: ↑Mon Aug 21, 2023 2:28 pm viewtopic.php?p=28187&hilit=open#p28187

SPR 1241174 -- The new 'Open Drawing' command always shows an Open browse dialog for file part of multiple drawings - even if drawing match matching file name exist in same folder as part/assembly - Inconsistent behavior without add-in

The problem exists for me on ALL drawings, even those with a single view of a single part. I guess it is a PDM problem, so you wouldn't see it.

The fact that this exists in an SP5 is beyond disheartening. Either it was broken from the beginning in 2022, and it wasn't fixed in time for SP5, or it was working earlier in 2022, and they managed to break it. The idea that SP5 is more stable/reliable than SP4 or SP3 doesn't match with what I've seen reported (and experienced) with this software.

SPerman wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 3:42 pm I am waiting to see how things go for you. While I don't really want to upgrade, especially to an SP3, 2022 SP5 crashes often enough that its forcing me. Earlier in the year I was on W10 and different hardware. Now I'm on W11 with the same video card, but different MB et al. I don't remember it crashing that often before the upgrade, but so many things have changed its hard to blame it on the OS.

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 8:25 am Well, I'm having issue with a flexible sub-assembly, only one though.

Most likely caused by how the flexible sub-assembly was mated in a lazy way using the lock mates.

AlexB wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 8:35 am Yeah, lock mates are like "fixing" components in space. Poor practice most of the time since they don't really move/update when components move/change.

Ronan wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 6:39 am Has anyone seen this is SW 2023 SP3.0image.png
What is _$$ dummy@@_
The files open ok and Ctrl Q does get rid of it.

CarrieIves wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 2:11 pm @AlexLachance Can you rename the surface features later?

We have a sister company that is on SW2023. We want to bring them into our PDM vault, but we'll have to move our vault from 2022 to 2023. I don't know if I do want us on SP3 with this bug.

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 2:17 pm I believe it is a bug caused by having a different language then english because this is a workaround I found for my collegue.


MicrosoftTeams-image (3).png

mp3-250 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 6:49 pm I do not understand why change the registry when that setting available is inside SW system options?

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 9:38 am Yeah, SP3's got a few little bugs, none so far are showstoppers but they are somewhat annoyances. Here's another one
I AM A GIF CLICK TO PLAY ME
bug.gif


image.png

Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 9:42 am Would you mind translating for those of us who don't speak or read French?

Dwight wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 10:57 am Alex

I can't imagine working in French fractional inches. Maybe not as weird as working in first angle projection, yet it seems to go against everything.

Dwight

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 9:38 am Yeah, SP3's got a few little bugs, none so far are showstoppers but they are somewhat annoyances. Here's another one
I AM A GIF CLICK TO PLAY ME
bug.gif

"This operation would have created unvalid geometry, the state of the sketch has been restored previous to the operation"
image.png

SPerman wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 11:59 am I've seen that in 2022 as well (and possibly earlier releases.) I considered it more sloppy programming than a bug. If creating the constraint is going is causing an issue, just don't create the constraint. You don't have to change my sketch.

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 12:53 pm Yeah, this was doing it on any drag and drop from anywhere that didn't add mates or change anything really. The GIF has some weird colors but basically the sketch was throwing errors without having any. Saving and restarting solved the issue instantly.

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 9:16 am Glad to see chain dimensions added in SolidWorks. It was one of the things we pushed on when SolidWorks came to see us.

Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 10:08 am I'm a little surprised to hear that. I was always afraid of them since I didn't want tolerances to stack up. I use Ordinate Dimensions often.

I'm not criticizing though. I know different things work in different industries and situations.

Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 10:08 am I use Ordinate Dimensions often.

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 8:58 am Welp, just got a critical one this morning. Most likely linked to the language bug previously encountered with surfacic features.

Some of our properties have accents in them and those properties with accents get created without accents for new bodies. That causes our drawings to not show the material. It also causes our E.R.P. to not detect the material.

I can ask my E.R.P. guy to program something so that it picks up either with or without the accent, but that doesn't fix the drawing issue and leaves us with differing properties.
We can *cheat* the drawing by modifying the property called out but then we'll have to fix it later on down the road.

I asked our VAR to develop a macro that would edit the property and rename it with the accent as it should be, hopefully that can be done. If that's the case, then we can continue on SP3 and live with the bug.

Existing components do not exhibit the problem. Only new bodies that generate their own properties exhibit the issue.

mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 9:52 am The solution is obvious! Quit using French...

mp3-250 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 5:42 pm Could you try to export an assy in edrawings and see how accents and file descriptions are handled?

SW is notorious for breaking non english languages support.
With asian languages we end up with garbage instead of characters every couple of releases...because someone forgot to compile their "professionl CAD software" with unicode support or something...

mp3-250 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 5:42 pm Could you try to export an assy in edrawings and see how accents and file descriptions are handled?

SW is notorious for breaking non english languages support.
With asian languages we end up with garbage instead of characters every couple of releases...because someone forgot to compile their "professionl CAD software" with unicode support or something...