Update 6.21 released 30th September 2004

The ability to have a greater scope in the quality of viewing the models. The slider bar now has more adjustment allowance to assist in viewing large radius faces that were showing flats while viewing.

Solidworks 2005 is about to be released.

On going testing and quality assurance with this as well as the SW 2004 had prompted us to revise our image quality settings as we have found problems with the proper displaying of some models.To be able to better control this especially for the extremes of model size we needed more scope to control this as well as being able to control models of low precision better.

In this version 6.21 there is a new slider bar in the display settings.

File> Properties> Display tab>

By default this is set to the middle which is similar to previous but now you can go higher to assist with tiny or intricate parts or of the models are huge and lethargic it can be reduced.

Now read this carefully:
If you have a model on the screen and you go to adjust the image quality it will happen now regenerate to the new image quality setting without having to reload the file. There is a message that comes up and asks if you want to change the setting on the current mode yes no or cancel, if you say no it does not update the current mode, if you cancel it does not, but if you have adjusted the setting it will update any new models or other models because it can be multi document. The reason the message is there is because if it is a huge model and it is going to be regenerated you may not want to do this particular model hence the ability not to that.

Update 6.22 released 23rd September 2004

Fillet all edges modified due to reports on some operating systems.

Update 6.20 released 2nd September 2004

Adjustments were made to leave for finish for negative allowance for creating electrodes. This applied to the Z Level rough and Z Level finish.

Ability was added so that speed could also be controlled modal.

A tag box was added to the display properties so that you can rurn the dynamic rotation of the models in viewing to assist in viewing huge models on not so fast hardware. When you change views it will then snap to the next view rather than seing it move the the new view in a dynamic viewing way.