Back in October I wrote about some issues where changes made to settings in the Tools > Options page, would get lost if Solidworks crashed before you were able to exit Solidworks, and then restart. It was further discovered that the issue also affected toolbars, and command manager settings. You can read all about that issue, and the partial solution at this LINK.
At the time, the discussion was submitted as an SPR with Solidworks, and it was getting looked into. What was left open was to solve the issue with toolbar and command customizations getting lost if SW crashed before you exited. Last week, John Sweeney from Solidworks posted that the issue has been solved:
"I've got good news and bad news. The good news is that we believe we have fixed the issue with toolbar customization getting lost if you don't successfully close SolidWorks after making your changes. This means that moving toolbar positions, adding/removing buttons, etc will now be written immediately to the registry.
The bad news is that this turned out to be a rather large code change because there are so many ways to customize the toolbars, cmdMgr tabs, shortcut bars, etc. etc. This type of change is not typically put into our shipping product because of the level of risk vs. reward. So, the plan is to ship this fix with SW 2010.
As we discussed earlier, all other customization (Tools-Options, Tools-Customize (Menus, Keyboard or Options tabs)) should be geting saved immediately in SW2009.
Thanks for everyone's input... "
If you would like to read through the original discussion, it can be found at this LINK.
Thanks for passing news from SWX direct. We like to hear they are listing and acting on our needs.
Posted by: Adam Scheible | December 19, 2008 at 04:04 PM