It's been one marathon of a week here in the world of DriveWorks.
To kick off the week we had a public holiday which provided us with the opportunity to effect a long planned overhaul of our core IT infrastructure at our office in North England, which luckily went off without a hitch.
But the most important thing to happen this week was the official release of Service Pack 2 of DriveWorks 6 - without a shadow of a doubt the most significant release of DriveWorks yet.
Although it has been four months since work originally started on SP2, this isn't just your ordinary fix-laden release, we've also made some fairly extensive usability enhancements, massive performance increases in places, and incorporated 5 new major enhancements:
- Display Files for better control over what is shown in the specification management screen.
- Integrated E-mail support
- DriveWorks Live Standard Theme with extensive customization options
- Support for Forms in Specification Test
- Return License for moving licenses between machines.
All of these great new features are covered in our release notes, and I hope to explore some of them in more detail on this blog over the coming weeks, but for now, I'll just finish off with a few statistics about SP2:
- Number of full builds: Over 200
- Number of models generated during testing: ~5,000 (if you count drawings, sub-assemblies, and parts, this comes in around 50,000)
- Number of source code check-ins: ~1,000
- Time spent working out we wanted to change "Model Rules" to "Primary Model Rules": 16 hours
Seriously speaking - it wasn't really quite 16 hours although it was more than you might think. But that's a post for another day :-)
All that remains to say is I hope you all enjoy SP2 and let us know what you think.
P.S - I'm also curious to know if anyone has had a go with DriveWorksXpress in pre-releases of SolidWorks 2008 yet and what they think :-)
Edit - the number of models generated during testing should have been over 5,000, not 500 as I originally posted. My bad :-)
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