I don't generally use the Weld Bead feature in Solidworks. Like most everyone else I simply just insert a Weld Symbol annotation. Unfortunately, we are launching a new product and I am trying to reduce the amount of trips to my office with questions regarding weld bead locations. I have found the feature to be brutally and pain stakingly slow. But I have run into an issue I can't figure out. Whenever I insert, let's say, a .250" weld bead, the next time I insert a weld bead it has remembered my last weld bead size of .250". My issues is whenever I start up Solidworks (2017 SP3) the default weld bead size is .18751969", and if I want to insert a .1875 weld bead, I have to delete the .00001969" off the end and keep going. But unlike any other size of weld bead I insert, only a weld bead size of 3/16"/.1875" will revert back to .18751969", causing me to have to deleting the last four digits every time. I have tried deleting the whole number out of the size box and inserting .1875", highlighting the .18751969" and inserting .1875", or doing the same things but using 3/16 instead of decimals but nothing works. The units in the document's properties are set at 2 place. The weldment I am currently working on has hundreds of 1" weld, 90% of which are 3/16". I probably wouldn't mind changing the dimension so much if it were just a few weld beads. And my OCD won't just allow me to leave it at .18751969".
Thanking you guys in advance for always bailing me out as usual.
Note: I updated the last part of the question so it was comprehensible, and so it didn't sound like I need a stay at the Betty Ford. Sorry.
This is nuts Ken. I'm getting the same thing as you described. Tried different values and it remembers those values. I also tried .188 and although I got a slightly different number it carried it out to 8 decimal places. Now it looks as though if you input a value with 3 or more decimal places it will give you something goofy on the next weld bead. If you input .18 (two decimal), when you insert another weld bead it will indicated .180 as the default.
Now you have me thinking about Betty Ford.. Probably should have done that years ago.