What *Minor* Bug in SOLIDWORKS Drives You Crazy

The tab button while working in a dialog will hide whatever the mouse is hovering over... If I am not paying attention to where I have my mouse.

Oh boy, this is going to be a busy topic.

The fact that the pointer always has to be a couple of pixels off the item I'm trying to select.  If I'm right on it, SW doesn't select the object I want.

The fact that SW prefers to select anything instead of a face.

The fact that SW prefers to select hidden objects over visible ones!

Editing spline points will not permit moving the points a couple of pixels.  Instead, I have to move the point far away, then bring it back.

Occasionally, when I select the SW icon, it starts right up and I have to go to work.

Actually, thinking about it now, one that really annoys me is detailing drawings where I need to dimension to two rounded surfaces. I can always get one or the other, but getting both dimensioned to the surface rather than the center point is a hit or miss project that takes several attempts.

I pick things up and I put them down.

I pick things up and I put them down.

I pick things up and I put them down.

I can only choose one?

Jim Steinmeyer wrote:

...detailing drawings where I need to dimension to two rounded surfaces. I can always get one or the other, but getting both dimensioned to the surface rather than the center point is a hit or miss project that takes several attempts.

It's a few extra clicks, but you can change where the leaders are using this...

Walter Fetsch wrote:

 

 

 

The fact that SW prefers to select anything instead of a face.

 

The fact that SW prefers to select hidden objects over visible ones!

 

 

Wow. That is not normal. I saw this problem several times when I visit customers and there is always a solution for this behaviour. What did your VAR say about this problem?

The bug that starts with SPR

Thank you Rick, that may help, as if I don't have enough clicks already. I know you should be able to hold the shift when selecting the rounded surface, but it often seems to forget about the first selection by the time I get the second. The frustrating thing is that some times it works like desired, and some times I have to try 8 or 10 times.

I gave up trying long ago to get it right and now I just hold the shift key and place the dimension then just change it in the options.

Alin, this has been normal behavior for at least a decade.

I thought it's only me.

Now I see others have the same problem.

Though I've set my options to rename each feature on creation, when I edit a part in context of an assembly mostly this option doesn't work.