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OK, I know that you wanted to know what things shouldn't exist, but I have been moonlighting with CATIA V5 and when I get back to Solidworks, I get really jealous that in CATIA, you can change almost anything about any dimension.

Edited to be closer to the subject line:

So, I guess what I am saying is that I would like to get rid of the silly "Standards" and just allow the ability to customize the dimensions how we want.

Here are some snapshots from CATIA on dimension properties and what you can change.

I agree with #1

I will respectfully disagree with your #3.  Strongly.

Other than that, as far as I can remember all the "Enhancements" that I've really hated were either given ways to turn them off right away, or in later releases, but if I think of others I'll post again.

99% of the time I agree with you Dan, but not today. To add all that capability looks like a time waster. I once used Inventor for a couple months, it has a similar thing that I thought was so annoying ~ page after page in the program to modify everything to the nth degree. I hated it.

Secondly, the OP wanted to get rid of things in SW, not add more stuff....

Dan

I would definitely agree with this! Rotate view is super handy.

Alen

Ouch ... Ii'd better have more than less ...

Might be "con" to me, but "pro" to others ...

Dan Bovinich wrote:

 

 

 

Secondly, the OP wanted to get rid of things in SW, not add more stuff....

 

Dan

I know.  I just wanted to get rid of the silly Standards listing, since that just locks us into what Solidworks thinks is the standards.  The nice thing about the CATIA portion is that, once you set those up, you never have to change them again.....unless you have to re-install...

Hey Jim,

How about the pre-selection of sketch entities which are selected for dimensioning... The automatic attachment of dimension to my last selection is very annoying. Never found out if they made a turn off button for that one...hmmm

Alen

I too am with you on #1. I hit it most of the time trying to get to temporary axis and never see anything happen when I do. Then click it again to toggle off, click the pull down arrow then click the temp axis. Why would I want all of that crap turned on in the first place!!

Get rid of it......

How about the SW Costing? Does anyone use that? I looked at it and thought there are many other programs that would handle that task. Furthermore, it seamed like you had to guess or get quoted many of the operations you had to input (PITA).

Rotate View Interface could use some improvement, maybe add the Alignment tool in to this Interface. Or possibly a Triad?

Hello Dan,

That is not really an issue since you can turn it off and not install it...

Alen

How about this one:

Foreshortened or Standard section view? For those of you who dont know the difference, the foreshortened section view is what it would look if it was sectioned properly, standard gives you the overall length of your pre-positioned section lines (Cutting lines)...Very easy for a beginner to hit do not show again to this message and select standard view thinking he is getting a foreshortened view...

Thoughts?

Alen

Quick mate popup box.

Remove lock and tangent mates from this option.

I use tangent very infrequently, primarily as a place filler until the assembly becomes more defined. Never used the lock mate.

That being said I have used the tangent/lock multiple times a day when I wanted concentric.