SW 2022 SP2 - First Thoughts

SOLIDWORKS SW General
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I’ve been using virtual part since 2016 and never had a single problem with Pack & Go concerning loosing references.
Even 2022 SP1 worked for me, But not SP2.
I’ll uninstall SW and reinstall from SP1. They don’t forget to bill us. But what they deliver is a not working application that so many users have problems with it.

Just imagine SW’s CEO buys a refrigerator and it fails to make ice. He calls the manufacturer support and they ask him to wait for the next year’s update. I really like to see what he answers.

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Next years update will make ice, but only cools the food to 60F

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Confirmed working in 2019…guess I was thinking of 2017 maybe where it didn’t 100%. I do see that 2022 ‘enhanced’ the speed of Pack and Go…I guess by ignoring updating some of it ;;
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2022 is released by the even year group, 2019 was released by the odd year group, so the fix likely didn’t get communicated to the even year group. :confused:

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I’m trying to figure out if:

  • they took you comment and ran with it


  • they are being facetious


  • someone actually told them this and was serious

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:open_mouth:

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Maybe we need a new thread called “Second Thoughts” ?

Like .. on second thought .. I wish I wouldn’t have installed 2022 at all!

and AlexLachance … before you say I told you so .. I know I know o[

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My experience is the opposite. Odd years were the ones to be avoided. But with 2022 it seems like SW is over achieving and now both even and odd years are to be avoided.

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Boom!

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2021 was a dog (still use it for two clients) but 2022 takes the biscuit. On top of poor performance, drawings hanging and general stability issues, Visualize 2022 is almost unusable. SP0 wouldn’t load SW files at all (various vintages) and SP2 randomly crashes after slowly bogging down on the loaded scene.

This rubbish has caused us to look elsewhere for a clean start cad system (I posted in CADagnostic about this). We have just received a quote for NX… :astonished:

I hope it’s stable at that price…

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It’s a coin toss mate, no worries we’ve all been there.

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They are too invested to go back now. It still is all in for them!
The story of Ubers re-write from Objective C to Swift shows you that at one point you can not go back anymore.
I am just glad that SolidWorks Desktop still exists currently. But that safety net is becoming smaller & smaller.

Edit: Sorry for the hijacking of this topic.

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My second thought was to uninstall sp2 and go back to sp0.
I had serious problems with pack & go in sp2 concerning broken references. Back to sp0 and it seems I can use this feature again. Why should we pay this amount of money and still suffer?

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Because somebody has to pay for the 3DXP platform. Those 500+ developers don’t work for free.

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I’ll play. On second thought, I wish we would have forgotten about PDM and stayed with Solid Edge.

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I agree. Implementing PDM properly is a hell of a job and if done poorly or not fully the costs outweigh the tiny benefits…

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I can attest to the latter. I have no experience with the former.

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Never thought I would say this .. but I miss Solidworks 2021

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When I select a component from an assembly tree, there shall pop an origo for moving or rotating that component. I don’t like it. Can I disable that somehow? Could not found a solution by myself. :unamused:
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Starting to see the “future version” error since we’re still on 2021 and I’m not hot to upgrade. So…I just open SWX 2022 files directly in SE. Works like a charm. :smiley: