SolidWorks 2009 SP1.0 EV Is Live…For Some Of Us!
October 30, 2008 1 Comment
Above is the email that I received yesterday informing me that SolidWorks 2009 SP1.0 EV went live which you can download in the Downloads and Updates page inside of the SolidWorks Customer Portal. However, there is 1 small problem! When I went to the Download page I could find no sign of SolidWorks 2009 SP1.0 EV. At first I figured that it just wasn’t posted yet (sometimes the press releases are out before the downloads) but when I asked Mike Puckett and Lou Gallo on Twitter whether it was there or not and they both said that it was. Brian McElyea also said that he could NOT find it anywhere on the Download page. Worse yet, I don’t have the “Sign up for EV’ link either that it talks about in the email above in the 2nd paragraph. I tried it again this morning on my work machine and it was nowhere to be found there either. I have cleaned all of my cookies, cache and browsing history and still no luck.
So this morning I sent an email to SolidWorks informing them of what I was running into. Hopefully someone can figure out what is going on and I will post an update on here for everyone else that is encountering this same problem.
If you would like to receive an email informing you of Early Visibility go to the “My Profile” link in the Customer Portal and then check the box next to “Notify me for EV (Early Visibility) access”. See screen shots below. 
Jason -
I had the same problem, so I contacted Cutomer Support. What I had to do was basically re-register for the EV program, which is more than just selecting the “Notify me for EV access.” They referred me to Knowledge Base solutions S-028528 and S-028529. Once I did that, the EV downloads were visible.