Hi Craig

Are you running them at the same time?

Tim

I have not been able to do a lot of work on this but all indications are that V8 should not be run on the same system as V9, there is a definite conflict going on.
My viewing quality has vastly improved, the Subd to Nurb tool now updates to the correct value and I can now extrude the faces of a mesh to a desired value.
These things did not work properly when V8 was on my system and now they do, the Gripper seems a lot more stable, I have not seen it change size as it used to and the overall smoothness of the program has improved drastically.

I removed both programs with the Windows uninstall function, then I manually deleted all Punch folder, cleaned out the registry, rebooted the machine, loaded up V9 and rebooted the machine before opening it and registering it again.

I have been thinking about this and have come to the conclusion that the developers are actually shooting themselves in the foot by allowing both versions to be run on the same system.

Most of the bugs being submitted are not bugs at all, they are anomalies caused by the conflict between a 32 and a 64 bit program having their preferences stored in the same folder.
I used to have so many strange things happen that I thought Shark was possessed by a poltergeist, these things do not happen anymore!

Time is being spent on bug reports that would never have been submitted if there was only one version on the machine, and this is severely impacting the development of the software.

Two of the attached images are of a self disengaging clutch with shear capability that I came up with so we could start older engines on a dyno, tune them with the dyno turned off as well as protecting the engine if a problem occurred.

I came up with this in 2009 and have used it ever since as my benchmark as to how new versions of Shark are running.
The design has since changed drastically but I still use this original design because I know what problems it threw up way back in 2009.
What I found was that if it were modelled as an assembly, components would lose their orientation and Shark would really struggle with it.
The second issue was with the ramp in the face of the ramp plate, modelling the ramp was very difficult in many versions.

The point of all this, over the break I modelled the clutch once again just as I had when I bought this machine and installed V8 and again when I had both V8 and V9 installed.
Once both versions were removed, all Punch folders were deleted and V9 was reinstalled, I redid the clutch and it was a breeze.
I was able to model it as an assembly and had no issues with orientation or with creating the ramp in the face of the ramp plate.
I took the project all the way to the model to sheet stage an the program ran smoothly all the way, I then did a couple of fun models and they ran smoothly too.

I would say that V9 is just as stable as V8 and could be used on its own from build 1182, this would stop false bugs being submitted and would help in the progress of the software.

I have attached the images to show the playing I have done since the fresh install.

>>that the issues you are experiencing are Windows only.
On mac, v8 and v9 prefs are saved to different locations. I plan to look into saving Windows prefs to different location between versions.

Tim