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November 17, 2005
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Wildfire 3.0 release date ?

  • November 17, 2005
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Does anyone know when Wildfire 3.0 will be released ?

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    david.reid1-Visitor
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    November 21, 2005
    Joe

    Good question.

    Cynical answer - take the date that PTC announce and then add on a few months.

    Realistic answer - sometime next year - March/April 2006 is the latest I've heard. At one point there was talk of late 2005, but in an effort to do a good job of QA this has been pushed back a bit.

    All the best with your UG / Mechanica issues. At one point many years ago this was a very high priority topic for Rasna, but there are not a huge number of UG & Mechanica users left thesedays. If you do have the option of using Pro/E to generate your geometry then you'll find it much slicker. Otherwise your best source of help will be Mechanica experts within Boeing (probably at your site), and PTC Tech Support.



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    David Reid
    Optima Design Services Ltd
    davidr@optima-design.co.uk
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    burnsp1-Visitor
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    November 21, 2005
    David's right, they were shooting for a 3Q 2005 release but, according
    to Jim Heppelmann (PTC VP) from the PTC/User event this past June in
    Orlando, they delayed WF3 until 1Q 2006 to clean up some cumulative bugs
    from earlier versions. Maybe I'm gullible but I got the feeling they
    are really trying to release a "low bug" version compared to the past
    versions. We'll see.
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    unknown11-Visitor
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    November 21, 2005
    The word on the street that I have heard... Not much new functionality
    in WF3 other that a major bug fix from all the previous revisions.
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    david.reid1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    November 21, 2005
    Brian

    No need to listen to word on the street - have a look at the online
    interactive release notes.

    http://www.ptc.com/appserver/wcms/relnotes/category.jsp

    Specifically listed are:

    28 enhancements for Structural & Thermal Simulation:
    http://www.ptc.com/appserver/wcms/relnotes/category.jsp?version=3198&type=29
    38

    5 for Mechanisms (Kinematic & Dynamic)
    http://www.ptc.com/appserver/wcms/relnotes/category.jsp?version=3198&type=30
    80


    Looks to me like a lot more than just bug fixes! Don't believe the hype.
    Two years ago someone told me that they'd heard that Mechanica was being
    retired. Amazingly, they believed it, despite huge evidence to the
    contrary.




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    David Reid
    Optima Design Services Ltd
    davidr@optima-design.co.uk
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    jholst-21-Visitor
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    November 22, 2005
    Does anyone know if WF3 mechanica will support 64bit memory so I can run
    bigger jobs without running into the win32 1.8GB limit?

    ---Jim Holst
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    miya1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    November 22, 2005
    Removal of 8-GB Memory Limit

    http://www.ptc.com/appserver/wcms/relnotes/note.jsp?&im_dbkey=26699&icg_dbkey=826





    Jim Holst <jim@tsdengineering.com> wrote:
    Does anyone know if WF3 mechanica will support 64bit memory so I can run
    bigger jobs without running into the win32 1.8GB limit?

    ---Jim Holst
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    martymac1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    November 22, 2005
    Current version supports 64bit, but it is a separate installation.
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