Bug of the Week
The bug that has cost me the most time this week is not yet a confirmed bug, and I’m going to give SolidWorks people the opportunity to respond to the report I sent in first. Let’s just say that my experience with RealView in SW08sp2.0ev has been less than stellar.
Anyway, my second choice for Bug Of The Week for this week is unique to 2008, and was reported in Beta, but as of SP2.0ev, it is still there. When you access the Modify Sketch tool, the Modify Sketch origin that allows you to mirror and move sketches quickly flashes on the screen for a fraction of a second, and then disappears. If you put your cursor where it flashed and you’re lucky, you can get the correct cursor icon to show up that enables you to mirror the sketch.
That’s the bug of the week for this week. I’m less tolerant of bugs in the software when the developers are putting in functionality that doesn’t work or doesn’t help me. For example, the AutoTrace function would have been a good thing, but instead it’s just another gimmick that has a name but doesn’t work. I would certainly trade that useless gew-gaw in return for a Modify Sketch that doesn’t get buggered between releases. SolidWorks – try to see things through the eyes of people who use the software to make a living.