[jjs]

Anyone dared yet to use Sw2007 - does the existing plugin work with it or do we await the sw2007 Maxwell plugin?

Thinking of installing Sw2007 or my spare machine which runs windows xp.

TTFN

Jonathan

[jjs]

To answer my own question

Installed sw2007 and all went well - not quite sure what the 'validation' procedure is meant to beand all the hype before sw2007 release - I thought sw2007 was the year we were liberated from the dongle - but not in my case. Apart from the hassle of trying to access the subsciption part of the website and my XP refusal to accept the SW install --- so I manually downloaded the SW2007 file - be warned 650 MB - yes 650 MB - are they taking the piss? I am sure it was only 100Mb last year and in the past it used to be 30 MB or there abouts .

Anyway it all loaded fine as a clean install along side sw2006 and Maxwell was waiting for me when I opened my first part. Just like a faithful dog.

First thing I notice is that to select a part in SW2007 you can't just click it - you only get the surface. I have to investigate this but in Maxwell I could not select a part to assign a material , but had to toggle on the Solidbody and it worked fine.

PW seems to have undergone some sort of face lift, but I just got confused and left pretty quick.

Anyway - it all looks fine for the moment. Jump in - no sharks in the pool, none that I can se.......................................



TTFN

Jonathan

[w i l l]

ok anyone else using Maxwell with 2007? I need to buy 2007 but I dont want there to be any problems with the plugin.

[dutch_designer]

edit: nevermind my post, it didn't make sense at all.

[superbad]

It works, you just have to be aware of some things. It crashes every second time you export, so I just keep the plugin unloaded, load it to export the MXS, then unload it again. And always save the model before starting the plugin.

[Mike Scola]

I've been using SW2007sp1.0 with Maxwell 1.1 and it's been working with the exception of one bug. I have to make sure that when I launch SW I do not have MW automatically loaded as an add in. I can open my SW file, then load the addin and it works fine. If SW auto loads the addin at starup, when I execute the maxwellpm it freezes up on me and I have to Control Alt Del out of it.

Other than that I would recommend running it.

[b-kandor]

jjs - my download of sw2007 (before I got the discs) was 1.4gb (premium version). I don't think it's been 30mb for a long time.............

In any case on my trusty cable modem I download it in around 17 minutes. My cable connection (even though I live in the country) downloads between 1.7 MB/s to 2.1 MB/s. I love that

I've been using 2007 in production since sept. and while there are some bugs it's getting smoother now (sp2.0ev). I've already designed over a dozen parts including full tooling since then so I've definately put it through the wringer.

Kandor