Is there a quick and reliable way to "pretty up" ordinate dimensions?

When you have to repeat that particular set of mouse clicks 30 times for 30 different dimensions.....

Its just that the jog function is buried in a sub menu and I don't know how to bring it out of that sub menu.

Even if I could drop it directly into the RMB menu without having to select he sub menu every time would make it better.    It is specifically something that is tedious.

It is one of those little things that I use all the time that I wish that I could just do.......faster.

When you have to do them a lot to clean up a drawing, yes it is a pain and inefficient.

Glenn Schroeder wrote:

 

Anna Wood, Dan Pihlaja, Austin Broeker, and others:

 

I had a thought this morning (and no, it didn't hurt, but thanks for asking). In addition to having "Jog" buried under Display Options in the right-click menu, what do you think about having an icon for it on whatever this thing is called? That would be easy to access.

 

I do not use that panel.  Hate waiting for it to appear.  The micro seconds delay drives me crazy.  Old school, old dog!!! 

Matthew Lorono wrote:

 

So, what I'm hearing is that people talk to much about mouse clicks, you want more of them, and in particular, I should bury Jog underneath more submenus. Am I getting this right?

 

j/k

 

BTW, the idea of having Job on Dim Palette is interesting. We don't really launch commands from the Dim Palette, so it may not be the best place for it, but that doesn't mean this idea doesn't help us understand the need and allows us to think a bit out-side-the-box.

Where did I say I want more mouse clicks in that response Matt?  I can do everything I need to do over in the feature manager as opposed to using that panel.  It only save mouse miles, not clicks. 

I do not want more mouse clicks....   The jog command is buried to deep.

If you guys want to add a jog command there in addition to unearthing it from its current location I am all in favor of that.

Matthew,

Thank you for replying to my suggestion.  If that one isn't workable, how about having "Jog" immediately available in the drop-down when right-clicking on the extension line of an ordinate dimension (or when Ctrl+clicking on multiple extension lines and then right-clicking)?

Dan Pihlaja wrote:

 

A mouse gesture would be harder to implement, I think. I don't see why.  See below. Because, right now....if you want to create a jog in a dimension, you have to RMB on the dimension itself....or a specific place on the dimension (for linear dimensions). This tells the program that this is the dimension you want to jog (or this particular leg for linear dimensions).

The way I would envision a keyboard shortcut working is to either select or highlight the dimension and then utilize the shortcut, which would apply the jog to whatever you have selected (or highlighted).  Couldn't you select the dimension (or dimensions) first, then move the Mouse to access the Mouse Gesture, just like selecting the dimension and then using a keyboard shortcut?

A mouse gesture, however, involves moving of the mouse....which may be rather hard to tell the program that you want this leg jogged. Unless they turn it into something where you mouse gesture jog first....then select all the legs that you want to apply the jog to.

In fact....I think that I just talked my way into a cool way of implementing that. Select jog first.....then just select all the dimension lines you want to apply jog to.  Couldn't you have "Jog" in a Mouse Gesture where you'd select it first, then select which dimensions to apply it to just as easily?

Josh Brady, I used to frequent EngTips a lot. I really miss the posts from Handleman & CorBlimeyLiimey

Very cool!

I just tested out the one from here:

DIMENSION JOG - DASSAULT: SOLIDWORKS 3D Design - Eng-Tips

that Josh Brady posted.

It works great!

Dim swDoc As SldWorks.ModelDoc2

Dim swSelMgr As SldWorks.SelectionMgr

Dim swDispDim As SldWorks.DisplayDimension

Dim i As Long

Sub JoggleToggleMulti()

Set swApp = Application.SldWorks

Set swDoc = swApp.ActiveDoc

Set swSelMgr = swDoc.SelectionManager

For i = 1 To swSelMgr.GetSelectedObjectCount

    If swSelMgr.GetSelectedObjectType3(i, Empty) = swSelDIMENSIONS Then

        Set swDispDim = swSelMgr.GetSelectedObject6(i, Empty)

        If swDispDim.GetType = swOrdinateDimension Then

            If swDispDim.Jogged Then

                swDispDim.Jogged = False

            Else

                swDispDim.Jogged = True

            End If

        End If

    End If

Next

swDoc.ClearSelection2 True

swDoc.GraphicsRedraw2

End Sub

Daen Hendrickson wrote:

 

I have been doing exactly as Kelvin Lamport for years. I have my Jog Toggle set to a key on my spacepilot. (The name inside the macro is indeed JoggleToggleMulti() as called out by Josh Brady.

 

The one issue I have with the macro is that if I press the shortcut key a second time too quickly it crashes SW - I had posted regarding this some time ago and even Deepak could not find anything in the code that looked suspect.

 

I use ordinates regularly and share in everyone's issues. A particular nuisance is when I "add to ordinate" after having manually adjusted things and the add causes the entire ordinate to auto-adjust.

 

Daen

I think that if you turn off this feature, it will fix this problem:

And just for good measure, turn this off as well:

Multiple likes if it would let me. This is my biggest complaint. Almost done with a perfect drawing and you have to add one ordinate dimension. Then everything goes bananas.

Daen Hendrickson wrote:

 

Josh Brady,

 

The added benefit of this version is that a rapid fire of the macro twice in a row does NOT cause my SW to crash! The differences are subtle but I am happy!

I think the crashing may have had something to do with the timer delay in there.  I have no idea what the delay was for.  Dang incompetent programmers.