all kinds of things going on

It looks as if there has been a lot of activity at the SolidWorks headquarters today as the official SolidWorks 2010 Beta page went live today and also SolidWorks 2009 SP4.0 Early Visibility is also live.

If you are at all interested in shaping the next release of SolidWorks it is highly recommended that you participate in the beta program.  Matt Lombard did a blog post about beta testing earlier this week that gave some tips for those of you that are interested in doing some testing for SolidWorks.  You can check out that blog post here.  In order to sign up for the program and be advised of information regarding to it you will need to activate it in Customer Portal profile.  To do this 1.) log into the Customer Portal 2.) Click My Profile 3.) check Notify me for Beta Programs.  Simple, huh?  So there you have it, sign up now and get ready to help make the next version of SolidWorks the best ever.

The 2nd big item from SolidWorks today was the release of SolidWorks 2009 SP4.0 Early Visibility to the Downloads page of the Customer Portal.  I am not seeing any information in the Fixed SPR’s section yet about this release but I am sure that will be coming in the near future.  So if you are on the cutting edge and want the latest version of SolidWorks on your machine go ahead and download it today and see what kinds of new or fixed stuff it includes.  I am personally planning on downloading it tonight overnight.  Please feel free to leave any comments here if you find an important patch or fix while running this version.  I would love to hear and see what you discover.

Good luck and have fun with these 2 releases!