More Hidden Changes to Solidworks 2009

Last week when I posted about the change to the printing interface, you may have noticed an additional button on the print interface:

The Preview button.  Again, this is one of those simple changes that basically makes life just a little bit easier in Solidworks.  In Solidworks 2008 and earlier, if you hit the print button, and then went in and made a change to either the properties, or page setup, you would then have to hit cancel and then print preview to make sure your changes were correct.  I used to do this all the time when someone in the shop would change the paper size on a drawing for some strange reason, and then save it.  Now in Solidworks 2009, I can make a change, and hit the preview button to see my changes much faster than I could in Solidworks 2008.  I no longer have to cancel out, then hit print preview.  In fact this was the sole reason I added the Print Preview button to my shortcut bar to help save some clicks and time.

Again, a very simple change to the interface, but one that saves time, and makes the software work more like a user, than a computer.

Comments

[Renegade]

Nice of them to add that in.

Now I await with eager anticipation for them to iron out some silly Task Scheduler-related printing bugs which prevent users from corretly printing multiple-sheet drawings with varying paper sizes.

[cadit]

It looks like a great adjustment, but it`s a very simple and expected thing. In other way, shame for SolidWorks developers - embed such simple and important interface elements only after dozen releases of the software. That's I've always thinking when working with SW2008.