Solidworks 2008 Instalation Notes:

Well just two days after receiving our disc's in the mail, I went ahead and installed it on my station to start using it on new products.  Here are a couple of notes for those getting ready to install:

1. Transfer your license in 2007 before uninstalling it.  I uninstalled all 2007 products before installing 2008.  During the un-install of SW 2007, SW cautioned me that I should transfer my current license back before continuing the removal of 2007.  I had to exit the un-install, go into SW 2007, click Help then Transfer Licenses.  That checked my current license back into the SW server.  Upon activating SW 2008, I was able to grab that license.
2. The Disc you get is 0.0 Service Pack.  The current Service Pack level for SW 2008 is 0.1  which you can download and install once installation of 2008 is complete.  The file is 48 meg, and should self install with the installation manager, but I didn't have much luck.  It kept wanting to download 971mb of files from SW.  I went the old school way and cancelled out of the instalation manager, and downloaded the file seperatly.

Basically it looks as if the instalation manager wants to download every single update possible.  But what doesnt make sense is that for some of the products, it wants to download a file thats bigger than the original instalation file?