SolidWorks 2008 SP4.0 Early Visibility went live today through the Download Center in the SolidWorks Customer Portal. What this usually means is that the actual release of this service pack is roughly 2 weeks away. I heard a rumor from a little birdie at the WMSWUG meeting we held this past week that this service pack is going to be a MUST for anyone that has been experiencing troubles with the previous service packs in the SolidWorks 2008 software. For those of you that have yet to switch to SolidWorks 2008 this may be your opportunity to do so. Be sure to check it out, I am downloading it right now and I will be sure to let you know what I think of this latest piece of the pie. Stay tuned for more to come!
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If you would like to check out what was changed in SolidWorks 2008 SP4.0 you can now look it up at the Service Pack Fixed SPR’s page in the Customer Portal. It looks as if quite a bit of stuff has been changed upon my initial first glance. My initial impression of the EV version is that it seems quicker for some reason. I am not sure if this is the case or if it is a combo of the service pack and Windows XP SP3 but it seems like it to me. Devon Sowell mentioned this week that he had heard reports that the XP service pack allowed SolidWorks to run faster or maybe they incorporated some of the performance upgrades from SolidWorks 2009 to this service pack also. Like I stated before, check it out for yourself and see what you think of it.