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
you are right
i'm using sw2015 and 2017,the behavior 2015 is the same as 2014, maybe this behavior is changed from 2016. maybe cuz instant2d is added from 2016