1 Reply Latest reply on Jan 30, 2018 12:24 AM by Xu Jun

    Clicking Smart Dimension button with sketch geometry selected

    Christopher Thorn
    Christopher Thorn Nov 15, 2017 5:41 AM

      I moved from SolidWorks 2014 to SolidWorks 2017 this year, and I feel like there's been a change in how dimensions are added to sketches.

       

      I'm pretty sure that in the past, when editing a sketch, if I had some geometry selected - e.g. a line - and I then clicked the Smart Dimension button, the sketch geometry would become deselected and I would be able to then add the Smart Dimension to any geometry I wanted.

       

      Now if I click the Smart Dimension button with the line selected a length dimension will automatically be created on the selected line.

       

      Is this a new feature? If so, is there any way I can turn it off?

       

      Thanks,

       

      Chris