Okay so everyone knows how to use a smart dimension by now. My problem is after I select my first line and I go to select my second sometimes the number and arrow are in the way.
Is there a way to hide the dimension while I am trying to select the second line? I do understand I can just select the dimension I want to use instead of smart dimension.
I am just not sure if there is a button like control that will hide the dimension for a second while I select my other line.
Hi Zachary,
select the first entity (i.e. the line) click ALT once on your keyboard (it will not hide the dimension but it will stop to follow your cursor)
select the second entity.
Leszek
Leszek Paprota wrote:
select the first entity (i.e. the line) click ALT once on your keyboard (it will not hide the dimension but it will stop to follow your cursor)
select the second entity.
I didn't know that. Thank you Leszek. I'm going to bookmark this.
Glenn
Neat tip, thanks! Although only seems to work once per view.
I think its a bug of the software, but I did use it a couple of times
Leszek
I'm using SW2013 and it works fine.
This is great I was not aware of this! This doesn't seem to work in a drawing sheet though, is there a way to make it work on a drawing?
Works fine in SolidWorks drawing, 2013
Your right it wasn't letting me a second ago but now it is.
You are correct. This is something that I did not know but I will definitely pass it along. I love when you guys find the tips for me!
Betty Baker wrote:
You are correct. This is something that I did not know but I will definitely pass it along. I love when you guys find the tips for me!
What it is actually doing when you tap ALT like that is putting the focus on the menus up above.
If you will notice, when you tap the ALT key, all the menus above now show an underline:
This is a way for users to use their keyboard to access these menus. Most windows programs do the same thing.
Example: If you wanted to access the File--> Close menu, you can tap ALT, then tap F, then tap C (because in the File menu, the C is underlined in the word Close).
So, by tapping the ALT key, your focus changes, which is why the dimension doesn't follow the cursor any more.
I am saying this so that when people tap the ALT key, then follow it up with some standard keyboard shortcut that they normally use and it doesn't work, they won't get confused.
I believe that Matthew Lorono or Jim Wilkinson explained it better than I ever could in a previous post. Let me see if I can dig it up.
Hi Zachary,
select the first entity (i.e. the line) click ALT once on your keyboard (it will not hide the dimension but it will stop to follow your cursor)
select the second entity.
Leszek