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Edit Sketch - Model moves off screen

Question asked by Ben Richardson on Aug 23, 2019
Latest reply on Nov 13, 2020 by Paul Salvador

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I am not sure if there is a way to change how Solidworks behaves when editing a sketch in a part. When I zoom into a feature and click to edit its sketch when it enters sketch edit mode the view of the model is either in a completely different place or it ends up off screen. Is there a setting that will not move the model when clicking edit sketch of a feature? When I zoom into an area of a model I want it to stay at that same view when I go into edit mode. Im sure it used to do this? Ive been putting up with this for a while now. Might seem trivial but over time this ads up to a lot of readjusting of the view of the model for no good reason.

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Glenn Schroeder Aug 24, 2019 5:37 AM
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I'm at home now, and don't have SW here, so I'm not sure of the exact wording, but there's an option at Tools / Options / System Options that says something like "Zoom to fit when sketching". Deselect that. If you'll use the Search box in the upper right corner of the dialog box you shouldn't have any trouble finding it.
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- Rob Edwards @ Glenn Schroeder on Aug 24, 2019 7:40 AM
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  Maybe this one?
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John Stoltzfus Aug 26, 2019 7:19 AM
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When you are in the Edit Mode, hit the "F" key and see if zooms in to fit on your screen..
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Ben Richardson Aug 26, 2019 8:11 PM
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Glenn - All I could find is "Zoom to fit when changing to standard views" in the settings, its not actually zooming to fit, it just puts the sketch off screen somewhere (sometimes).

Rob - That setting I actually want to happen, it still does this but the sketch is off screen, this only seems to happen with certain parts and others it doesnt.

John - Ill get into the habit of using the "F" key, I use a space mouse so im just used to rearranging the view with that all the time.

Funny now that I am trying to replicate the problem its not doing it!? Thanks for the suggestions.
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- Glenn Schroeder @ Ben Richardson on Aug 27, 2019 7:40 AM
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  Ben Richardson wrote:
  
  Glenn - All I could find is "Zoom to fit when changing to standard views" in the settings, its not actually zooming to fit, it just puts the sketch off screen somewhere (sometimes). The screenshot Rob posted is the one I meant.
  
  Rob - That setting I actually want to happen, it still does this but the sketch is off screen, this only seems to happen with certain parts and others it doesnt. Up until a year or two ago that setting only applied to new sketches; not when editing existing sketches. Since that time I've occasionally seen the same behavior you described. When I first enter "Edit Sketch" mode the model is rotated normal to the sketch, but thrown off the screen. I use a 3d mouse with a "Fit" button, so it's simple enough for me to center it when that happens. I haven't bothered reporting it to my VAR because it's so difficult to duplicate.
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  - Paul Salvador @ Glenn Schroeder on Nov 13, 2020 3:04 PM
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    Glenn Schroeder wrote:
    
    Ben Richardson wrote:
    
    Glenn - All I could find is "Zoom to fit when changing to standard views" in the settings, its not actually zooming to fit, it just puts the sketch off screen somewhere (sometimes). The screenshot Rob posted is the one I meant.
    
    Rob - That setting I actually want to happen, it still does this but the sketch is off screen, this only seems to happen with certain parts and others it doesnt. Up until a year or two ago that setting only applied to new sketches; not when editing existing sketches. Since that time I've occasionally seen the same behavior you described. When I first enter "Edit Sketch" mode the model is rotated normal to the sketch, but thrown off the screen. I use a 3d mouse with a "Fit" button, so it's simple enough for me to center it when that happens. I haven't bothered reporting it to my VAR because it's so difficult to duplicate.
    
    Ditto!
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Dan Eldred Aug 27, 2019 8:46 AM
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sketches moving off screen when editing them can mean that there is some entity that's far away from the other entities and solidworks will center the view to include all entities in the sketch. sometimes its a dimension.

also i had a problem when first drawing centerlines on a sketch that if they were very longer than the sketch lines that i would use for the feature were then even if i made them infinite or shorter solidworks would still zoom out to where they initially were. this was from a macro i have that would draw infinite x and y centerlines over the origin when i started a new sketch. whatever size there were initially drawn at before they were set infinite is what solidworks would zoom to even after they were set infinite and i had drawn new sketch lines that were much smaller scale.

i think if you were to remake the sketch completely (not just wipe out sketch entities but make a new sketch and delete the old one) then the problem would go away.
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Jody Holm Jun 3, 2020 10:12 AM
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It happens to me too. Yeh, zoom to fit brings it back to your screen, but I feel your frustration. It's never been like this before and I think it started showing up when we went to SW2018. Just another added command to do a common command the we all do 1000s of time as day. I was hoping I would find a thread with some resolve when I did this search. Oh well, maybe next version.
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Daen Hendrickson Nov 13, 2020 12:22 PM
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I am seeing this in SW2019 SP5. VERY annoying behavior. If the root cause is as Dan Eldred explains, this will be problematic for a number of industries. Aircraft, boats, commercial buildings, all are based off a common origin which is usually magnitudes of distance away from the component of interest. With a Skeleton Sketch Part approach, nearly every component in the assembly stack points back to that origin... hence every sketch edit will recenter somewhere between the sketch entities and the origin.

GRRRRRRRR.

Daen
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