For some strange reason the Measure Units/Precision dialogue box will not let me Use custom settings. Whenever I click this a pop-up appears before I'm able to make any changes and says "Please enter an integer between 2 and 256.". Anyone else run across this? I have used custom settings on the measure tool for years, but now I can't and it feels like i'm gasping for air!
sounds like you may have to run a repair install. or in system proporties click the reset to default button at the bottom of the window.
I have the same problem since switching to the 64bit version of Solidworks 2009. The "Use custom settings" simply does not work. To get around this you can change the document properties units and document properties "dimensions/dual dimensions display" if you want to see both inches and mm. I am on 2009 64bit SP5.0. I will be watching this thread to see if there is a solution.
what OS are you guys using, 64bit Vista or Windows7 because XP64 works fine. it could be the OS with SW2009 in Win7 since it SW2009 is not supported in Win7.
I couldn't tell from your screen shot if this is your problem or not, but I ran into this when my denominator for fractions somehow got set to 0 (not by my doing).
If this is part of your problem, select fractions. Then when the pop-up window says "Please enter an integer between 2 and 256", just hit OK.
It will then have the fractions selected and you can enter 8 or some number for the denominator.
I had to do this in a new document, and then save the corrected file as a template for my problem to go away. So for me it was related to the settings within the template, which got corrupted during a SP update or something.
Rich
Rich, you are the man! I kept thinking why is this pop-up telling me to enter an integer when I haven't even customized anything yet. Also why wouldn't it default to a usable integer I'll never know. Oh well, by the way i'm using SW2K9 SP5.1 on Windows XP Pro SP3.
Thanks Richard! That was the problem for me. I went to document properties/units and set the fractions box to 8 (it was blank). Now everything works as it shoud.
There is an existing SPR out there that addresses this and it appears to be fixed in SP3 of 2010.
The probelm is that when you go into the document settings to check your units, you find that box empty. Hmm, put in a value, ok, close. Now, let's go back and check it, yup still there. So you close, and not paying attention, you don't realize that upon the close that time, it deleted that entry and you are back to where you were.
So, unless you are up to SP3, the thing to do is type in that value every time you go into the doc units.
WT
I couldn't tell from your screen shot if this is your problem or not, but I ran into this when my denominator for fractions somehow got set to 0 (not by my doing).
If this is part of your problem, select fractions. Then when the pop-up window says "Please enter an integer between 2 and 256", just hit OK.
It will then have the fractions selected and you can enter 8 or some number for the denominator.
I had to do this in a new document, and then save the corrected file as a template for my problem to go away. So for me it was related to the settings within the template, which got corrupted during a SP update or something.
Rich