so what's new with inventor 7? what's the diff! don't see much of a change fr

[Anonymous]

did anything significant change from IV6? is it really worth it to release
something every year for something less-so-significant?
or am i so wrong on this one? i just checked the specs and features and
just don't see the great improvements over IV6.

or i could just be illiterate. it happens often so no worries folks.

[Anonymous]

Jimmy J wrote:
> did anything significant change from IV6? is it really worth it to release
> something every year for something less-so-significant?
> or am i so wrong on this one? i just checked the specs and features and
> just don't see the great improvements over IV6.
>
> or i could just be illiterate. it happens often so no worries folks.
>
>

True the new features are not earth shattering, however I find it
significantly more stable.

--
Hal Gwin
Mechanical Designer
Xenogen

Dell Precision 650
Dual 2.66 GHz Xeon
1.5 GB DDR
Quadro4 900 XGL
nVidia 6.14.10.4201 drivers
Dell UltraSharp 19" LCD

[rllthomas]

The improvement in drawing speed and certain types of arrays makes R7 a must have improvement for us.

[Anonymous]

More improvements are AutoCAD 2004, Mechanical 2004 and MDT 2004.
See it as AIS ...
--
Michael Puschner
mp@scholle.de




"Jimmy J" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:AB073DD6D584C7A9F9BD269885C7F714@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> did anything significant change from IV6? is it really worth it to release
> something every year for something less-so-significant?
> or am i so wrong on this one? i just checked the specs and features and
> just don't see the great improvements over IV6.
>
> or i could just be illiterate. it happens often so no worries folks.
>
>

[Anonymous]

Most of the enhancements were behind the scenes to add more stability and
speed. I personally would buy a car that got me more speed and broke down
less often.

This was killed to death in some previous posts, but Autodesk cannot legally
release new functionality without making it a release. Because of the
AutoCAD 2004 release there needed to be the new functionality to write to
that format, so IV 7 was released with the 2004 read/write and performance
upgrades.

Personally I think they should have named it 6.3 instead of 7.

"Jimmy J" wrote in message
news:AB073DD6D584C7A9F9BD269885C7F714@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> did anything significant change from IV6? is it really worth it to release
> something every year for something less-so-significant?
> or am i so wrong on this one? i just checked the specs and features and
> just don't see the great improvements over IV6.
>
> or i could just be illiterate. it happens often so no worries folks.
>
>

[Anonymous]

If you require a proper line scale in your drawings, R7 will not be for you.

Matt

P.S. I have ran this issue into the ground also and still will until they
fix it.

[Anonymous]

I have found jus tthe opposite. I crash two to five times per day. I am
pretty sure that is has to do with the specs of my machine. Here they are.

Dell PWS 350 2.2GHz
512Mb RIMMs (PC1066 | 533 FSB)
to 2.0Gb PC800>
nVidia 750 XGL w/ 128Mb RAM
XP Pro / SP1
IV7

If anyone has gone from the PC1066 to the PC800 to get ability the install
an extra .5Gb of RAM, please let me know. I am looking at urgrading the RAM
but want to max it out. According to Dell, using PC1066 --> 1.5Gb is the
MAX &PC800 --> 2.0Gb is the MAX.

--
Mark Z
--
"Hal Gwin" wrote in message
news:8C2F9A580FD506861EAECCD97A7072C8@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Jimmy J wrote:
> > did anything significant change from IV6? is it really worth it to
release
> > something every year for something less-so-significant?
> > or am i so wrong on this one? i just checked the specs and features and
> > just don't see the great improvements over IV6.
> >
> > or i could just be illiterate. it happens often so no worries folks.
> >
> >
>
> True the new features are not earth shattering, however I find it
> significantly more stable.
>
> --
> Hal Gwin
> Mechanical Designer
> Xenogen
>
> Dell Precision 650
> Dual 2.66 GHz Xeon
> 1.5 GB DDR
> Quadro4 900 XGL
> nVidia 6.14.10.4201 drivers
> Dell UltraSharp 19" LCD
>

[Anonymous]

We are also seeing more crashes or should I say i-poofs with 7 but I will
admit to a speed improvement.
"Jimmy J" wrote in message
news:AB073DD6D584C7A9F9BD269885C7F714@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> did anything significant change from IV6? is it really worth it to release
> something every year for something less-so-significant?
> or am i so wrong on this one? i just checked the specs and features and
> just don't see the great improvements over IV6.
>
> or i could just be illiterate. it happens often so no worries folks.
>
>

[Anonymous]

We have seen the same thing. But before you start looking at your hardware,
were you running r6 OK. If so, I think it's Inventor.

[Anonymous]

Nice spelling on my last post! 😞
(I will need to be more diligent about running my spell checker.)

Anyways, I have rebuilt the install and the system runs very well. Did I
mention that it runs VERY well? Still, I am looking at upgrading the memory
on the machine. I am wondering if there are any problems going from the
PC1066 to the PC800? Can IV natively handle the 2Gb or do I need to make
some tweaks?

TIA

--
Mark Z
--
Dell PWS 350 2.2GHz
512Mb RIMMs
nVidia 750 XGL <128Mb>
XP Pro / SP1
IV7
--

"Jerry Berry" <-> wrote in message
news:696C8E8BBF198935CC98FF66CFE7B6E8@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> We have seen the same thing. But before you start looking at your
hardware,
> were you running r6 OK. If so, I think it's Inventor.
>
>

[Anonymous]

Mark Zimmerle wrote:
> Nice spelling on my last post! 😞
> (I will need to be more diligent about running my spell checker.)
>
> Anyways, I have rebuilt the install and the system runs very well. Did I
> mention that it runs VERY well? Still, I am looking at upgrading the memory
> on the machine. I am wondering if there are any problems going from the
> PC1066 to the PC800? Can IV natively handle the 2Gb or do I need to make
> some tweaks?
>
> TIA
>

Should be no problem, we have a Dell 350 here that we upgraded the RAM
to 1.5GB and added an nVidia 900XGL to as a backup unit. It runs R7
with ho problem

--
Hal Gwin
Mechanical Designer
Xenogen

Dell Precision 650
Dual 2.66 GHz Xeon
1.5 GB DDR
Quadro4 900 XGL
nVidia 6.14.10.4201 drivers
Dell UltraSharp 19" LCD

[Anonymous]

It most probably is a hardware or driver problem and not a problem with
Inventor.
My system is proof positive of this; I was hard locking and IPoofing etc.
many times a day with R7 and with just a video driver change (absolutely the
only change!) I went to rock solid performance with not even one IPoof or
lockup since! Take this from a guy that doesn't cut Adesk much slack when it
comes to Inventor versions after 5.3!


"Jerry Berry" <-> wrote in message
news:696C8E8BBF198935CC98FF66CFE7B6E8@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> We have seen the same thing. But before you start looking at your
hardware,
> were you running r6 OK. If so, I think it's Inventor.
>
>

[Anonymous]

Albert,

You're currently using NVIDIA Quadro4 980XGL, right?

When you say "just a video driver change", are you referring to
NVIDIA driver 40.72 (aka 6.13.10.4072)?

Which video driver caused the frequent crash you experienced previously?

Glenn


"Albert Allen" wrote in message
news:5CBF97B8A4929DC67DAE39858CBB3396@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> It most probably is a hardware or driver problem and not a problem with
> Inventor.
> My system is proof positive of this; I was hard locking and IPoofing etc.
> many times a day with R7 and with just a video driver change (absolutely
the
> only change!) I went to rock solid performance with not even one IPoof or
> lockup since! Take this from a guy that doesn't cut Adesk much slack when
it
> comes to Inventor versions after 5.3!