
But we also got some lightly documented true enhancements to how some of the products in the software’s portfolio look and behave. During the 2018 release cycle, among the various SOLIDWORKS service pack releases, we did see the usual bug fixes. How fun!Įxcept, that’s not really how it works. Until then, subsequent service packs will provide you with some bug fixes here and there.

Most SOLIDWORKS partners and resellers hold regional meet ups-typically advertised as “rollouts” or “launch events,” where you can interface with these certified SOLIDWORKS affiliates and hear from these experts about how exactly you can use “what’s new.”Īnd that’s it, right? After that, you just have to wait until next fall for the latest major release to ship. If you’ve used mainstream CAD software for any number of years, you have probably heard of these events. Its initial build-typically, this is listed as service pack 0.0 of the release-had shipped that very month. In October 2017, for example, our interests were piqued after hearing about the new features and functionality coming to our PCs via SOLIDWORKS 2018.

Every year, the SOLIDWORKS user community gets amped up over the announcements of hundreds of pages-worth of forthcoming enhancements set to be revealed in the upcoming major release of the software.įor those of you who aren’t major software heads: when I say “major release,” I mean the initial build of the annual release in question.
