We mentioned at our customer day back at the end of October, that we would be receiving the 2012 DVDs in November and subsequently posting them out to you in December. This unfortunately cannot happen due to circumstances outside of our control.
In the early part of November, SolidWorks highlighted a small, but important issue with how 2012 upgrades previous toolboxes. There is a situation that can occur where customised descriptions are not coming across, and if you are running a foreign language version, this can result in unusable toolbox components.
Rather than putting customers at risk, Solidworks have decided to slightly delay shipment of the upgrade kits so that you will receive 2012 SP1.0 instead of SP0.0. The release of SP1.0 was accelerated, and is available to download now – but because of the re-printing of the media, we will not be able to post your DVDs to you until the New Year.
As stated, 2012 SP1.0 is available to download from the customer portal now, and this version has none of the toolbox issues that SP0.0 suffers from. If you have any questions regarding this, please get in contact.