Well, this is great. We hadn't upgraded for forever and a few weeks ago we renewed our subscription and installed the latest with assistance from our VAR. I should have known there was going to be issues when the support tech went to install SP3.0 (which is what it was tagged as) and the installer ...

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I am having no issues at all with Solidworks 2021 Sp4.1.
Haven't had 1 crash as of yet. (dammit .. why did i jinx it )

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Reennie wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 6:16 am Yeah, I threw 4.1 on both systems already without hiccups.
I was already scr*wed with 4.0, so I was willing to betatest 4.1.

What could possibly go wrong?

Running fine since then.

Mine is working fine too now.

Tim R. Halvorsen wrote: ↑Sat Jun 26, 2021 1:40 am For those who already installed the SP4, there is a hotfix available:
https://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/hotfixes.htm

Tim

Nice. Thanks Tim!

DennisD wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:51 pm @Bradfordzzz, would you mind modifying the title of the thread to append ", but SP4.1 IS (June 24, 2021)", or something similar?

Absolutely.

I rolled back my Solidworks to service pack 3 so that I wont get blasted with the bugs we haven't discovered yet.
Man .. 1 step forward and 5 steps back anymore with these guys.

We just simply rename the files with the job number as a prefix.
Solidworks cant go looking for anything else because the name is unique.
History has shown that I can't trust Solidworks to do the right thing all the time .. so this is my Solidworkaround.

MJuric wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 3:00 pm Anyone ask why it was pulled over at the forum that shall remain unnamed? This seems like one of those questions that belongs over there.

I don't go over there anymore. Pointless when anyone I actually want to discuss issues with are all here.

They have removed this service pack from downloads ....

So how badly did i get screwed by installing it while it was available?

Eddy Alleman wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 3:09 am Thanks Bradforzzz

You are not sleeping ;-) No need for the zzz ;-)

Eddy

No .. but I wish I was.

For our workflow .. this has resolved the crashes we were having.
So far no issues.

Installed the Solidworks 2021 EV SP 4.0 without issue, whereas I had nothing but issues installing 3.0.
Just wanted to mention in case others had similar issues as I did.

Mark

Great answers. I agree completely!

jcapriotti wrote: ↑Thu May 20, 2021 9:18 am @Lapuo , @Bradfordzzz ,
Just curious what you guys find worse about 2021 than the version you're on? Seems to be very dependent on the type of work you do.

Mostly Automotive Checking Fixture Designs.

Lapuo wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 9:22 am We upgraded from 2018sp5 to 2021 sp3
For me worst decision ever

Couldn't agree more.

I think the bug fixing team consists of 2 people, and the "new half-assed features that won't work for 3 releases" team is 25 people. And those 2 people have been pulled off because you whiny users don't like the forum they created for you. This is probably the most accurate thing I have ...

Yeah .. and how did that work out then?

Waayyyy too many crashes with 2021.
I never thought i would be happy to be using 2020 SP5 ... but man .. 2021 epic fail.

Frank_Oostendorp wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 7:06 am @Bradfordzzz, your hardware is not certified for SolidWorks 2021, yet.
There is some delay, maybe in half a year?

I wont hold my breath for it ever to be considered Certified by Solidworks.
Their "Certified Drivers" never helped anyway.

I found it so slow, that I preferred to create my own which uses an index. And with time I added a lot of other functions batch rename Batch rename from Excel Batch print Bach export ... https://sites.google.com/site/bibotacconcept Use this quite often. Works Great. I like it far better than Solidw...

I had so many issues just trying to get Solidworks SP3.0 installed without errors, that I am going to hold off deploying to the rest of the team until I can try with SP4.0 without errors. I tried as I have normally installed in the past without issues .. When that didn't work .. I used the Javelin i...

Anyone run into any issues installing the latest service pack?

Mine crashed during install. Had to do a repair to SP 2.0

Thanks,
Mark

wow ... what a load of crap it is over there.
I can't believe how disorganized everything is now.
Tried it ... annnnnd .. i'm out.

Thank God for this forum and for all of the power users/helpers who are here.
So very thankful to all of you.

Oh Thank GOD. Soooo much better than that new SWYM. Really appreciate that this is here instead.
Thanks Guys !!