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SolidWorks [CAD] info
On 10/12/13 22:43, David R. Birch wrote:
On 12/10/2013 12:02 PM, F. George McDuffee wrote: This just hit my in-box and may be of interest to the group http://www.solidworks.com/launch/pro...2013&pmid=4270 I was really eager to bring SW to my company, and last year we finally did so. In all the things I had read about it, no one ever mentioned that there was no compatibility from release to release. If you wanted to open a file created in SW10, you had to have SW10 installed on your system. It didn't matter that you had SW12, SW13 or whatever. SW allows you to install older releases than the one you bought. I sure want to install umpteen versions of the same thing because my clients don't all have the same release I do. What is especially grating is that SW will display the CAD before it tells you it can't open it. As it stands, to export a file, I'm better off saving it as a DWG or DXF, which most CAD packages can handle. David That is pretty appalling but even Microsoft have played that game as some versions of VB wouldn't load previous projects, you had to cut and paste the content into a new project. At a company I used to work for we went to some lengths to make sure that older versions of the software database would automatically be updated to the latest format and suitable defaults set in new data fields so that customers data was preserved and usable. |
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On 12/10/2013 20:15, David Billington wrote:
That is pretty appalling but even Microsoft have played that game as some versions of VB wouldn't load previous projects, you had to cut and paste the content into a new project. At a company I used to work for we went to some lengths to make sure that older versions of the software database would automatically be updated to the latest format and suitable defaults set in new data fields so that customers data was preserved and usable. BTDT. Had lots of time in a project in VB5, upgraded to VB6. Was told VB6 would convert it. NOT!! It did, but the got tons of errors, from a project that WORKED in VB5. Not only that, but it did not import, it overwrote my old files, totally fuxoring it. Spent forever fixing it up, and finally gave up, dumped VB6, and went back to VB5. No more adding in this and that, and needing dot.net. My project was a standalone, using simple database access. -- Steve Walker (remove brain when replying) |
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