Pet Peeves
There is nothing that generates website traffic like a good old fashioned train wreck. I’m sure the SW people are learning this right now. Don Van Zile, a former civilian gone to the dark side, has asked people to list their Pet Peeves on the SolidWorks Forum. I’ve added a few, and so have several other people. If you haven’t seen this thread yet, you might be getting to the party late, but there is still plenty of action.
Notice that he’s not necessarily asking about “bugs”, just “peeves”. So you might be annoyed about something that isn’t a bug, it’s just annoying. It’s a good question to ask, and actually the kind of thing that SW employees should already know.
I’ll be very interested to see if this goes anywhere. SolidWorks has a ways to go to to dig itself out of the public relations hole Dassault seems intent on burying them in. Let’s see what they can do.
I just took a cursory look at this SolidWorks forum topic. I stopped posting on the forum about 1 year ago, I just lost interest.
So many of these pet peeves have been around for 5-10 yrs. Yet what has been done? This code was first written in what? 1995? That’s 312 computer years ago 🙂
During the past 13 years, I’ve installed over 65 SolidWorks Service Packs, have they really changed anything for the better?
I saw Matt’s comment on the forum, paraphrased, “…no new CAD tools from Dassault SolidWorks in many years” Well, there ya go! Grab the bull by the tail and face the situation.
Yawn… wake me up when SolidWorks V6 comes out, maybe I’ll have a look-see.
Devon
I am getting a serious allergy to geometry bugs that stay around in SolidWorks for 7 years. I must be an optimist as I did post a couple dozen pet peeves.
It is possible that SolidWorks only has only a few actual users still employed. SolidWorks may have no way of knowing about the bugs.
Solidworks users are well skilled at working around SolidWorks bugs. Some of us may use the big work around and go to Solid Edge.
From the snide comments gallery.
If I may be so bold here I think I have a term Dassault could use for the user focused combination of cloud, new kernal problems and some sort of future direct editing in combination with exciting socially immersive 3D engineering experiences and crowd sourcing goodness. They could call it Le Stinkonerous Technique 😉
Quote from the forum thread>
…’I have to ask the purely ‘hypothetical question’ If Solidworks did just to offer a major release with absolutely nothing new but just fixing bugs and pet peeves, what would the press/rumours be at this point!? I honestly think if we did that at this point the word/rumour would be out that we have given up on Solidworks in favor of ‘just’ the future engineering/design tools and we would be eaten alive by the confidence of our current user base and our competition alike. This is absolutely not true whatsoever!….’
This is a real howler! LMAO!…I’m biting my cheek…. seriously.
Here’s another recent quote from *the firm* on another blog which gave me a good laugh as well>
‘As someone pointed out to me yesterday, 2020 will mark 22 years of support for CATIA V5. Given that, it’s not too hard to imagine another 10 years for SolidWorks, which would make a total of 26 years.
…all the world’s a stage……
Hmmm… Well, is it the passengers job to right and fix the train?…. Dunno, possibly they are still in a state of shock and tending to their injuries… I think the railroad company have heard all these suggestions and complaints before several times and done nothing effective with them so….
In fact I dimly recollect some years ago – possibly 5-6 – refusing to participate in exactly this same thing for listing old wobbles and rattles because I believed then it was certain to be a waste of time, and it was.
Honestly I think I would rather finish my journey by horse and cart than hang around recounting the minute details of this unfortunate ‘hand of god’ accident over and over to disinterested officials. Probably the railroad company have a whole filing cabinet full of letters from concerned passengers that they can look over if they are nostalgic or regretful after the fact.
BTW anyone remember the radio story of Sparky and the Talking Train? A terrible accident was averted by listening to a small…oh well…too late now.
Anyway the SW steam engine is going to be replaced by Catia Lite rail so there’s not a lot of point fretting about a bent chassis, broken fittings and missing paint. Cut it up and send it to the scrap yard I say.
Sorry but as far as I am concerned its the same old, same old. SW desperately need to get themselves out of the functional trap they are in. That includes tossing out the worn ‘interest seems to be waining so we’ll have a concerned for our product survey’ shellac.
This stock extend and pretend response doesn’t address the basic enterprise threatening problem Dassault have inflicted on themselves and their passengers.
In the meantime its “All aboard the passing SE bus!” “Bound for Improvement and passing through the satellite town of ID just before midnight….”.
I humbly suggest if SW really want to know whats peeving people they can build themselves another search engine, thats usually the answer to a SW problem. Yeah I can see the steam coming out of Jim’s ears now….choo! choo!….
At least we know there is info to be found this time, or at least old hands do… 😉