SolidWorks 2008 SP2 looking good.

One bit of good news from SolidWorks World; it seems there's a bit of consensus that the lastest service pack, 2.0, is robust and working well enough that users are switching over. Most of the breakout sessions I attended were done on '08, and the presenters seemed happy enough with this new SolidWorks. I did some informal polling in the halls and except for the slower corporate clients, most folks are using the new version now with good results.

I think you'll be seeing a lot of screenshots with that reflective floor in the near future. A lot of the newer functionality won't be evident, but there's definitely a lot in the user interface that will be showing up, a sure sign that we've moved on. From what little was shown of 2009 during the Wednesday general session, this new user interface is a given and there will be more attention given to the various modules within, everything from sketching to handling large assemblies. More to come.