Orientation Dialog Box

The view-cube widget is pretty sweet for setting views.  You don't have to remember which way the model is pointing

Hi Thomas,

I like the big icons but that's because of a high resolution monitor.

Question,  why are the icons here big and in the mouse pop up menu much smaller.

Same for text in the menus and the property managers. Why isn't this consistent

and user configurable? Why do some fonts follow Windows setting and some fonts

don't? Why don't the fonts in the property manager change according to the Windows

fonts? The fonts in the propertymanager and dimension edit box are far too small

and I can't change it. I have text of 1.5 mm in the property manager

and it causes me pain in the eyes with a very common high resolution monitor.

I use a 27" 2560x1440 monitor and the pop icons are 3 mm which is too small but

this 5 mm in this orientation menu is really good for this resolution. I just can't see the

difference between a chamfer or a fillet with 3 mm icons at a distance of about 28 inch

from this monitor.

It all depends on the resolution and Solidworks doesn't take this into account.

That's why users with low resolution monitor and high resolution moniors have both

problems. Why not a general setting for the size of icons and fonts to make everybody

happy? Why can't icons just be scaled like fonts?

The font in the property mangers and dimension inputbox is the most red font.

So why isn't it possible to change at least the most red font? Why can't Solidworks

just take over the Windows setting? I am not asking to change any font

but just the most used.

This is a terrible problem on high resolution monitors.

There are now 10" tablets at 2560x1440 and Microsoft is pushing it.

Please test this on Solidworks 2013 and Windows 8 and find out that this 

causes eyestrain for almost anybody with less than perfect eyes.

Glasses don't help.

Scaling is not a solution in W8 anymore. Scaling causes all kinds of other problems

if this is more than 150% and not only in Solidworks.

A couple of years ago Solidworks was much better configurable, the background

color of the menus was according to the Windows setting and you could also change

the backgroundcolor of the tree. That was really good.

I really wonder how many people found it worth an enhancerequest to discontinue

this wonderfull functionality,  I red a lot of complaints about discontinuing this.

I don't like the almost white background of the trees, property managers and menus.

Lightgray is much better for eyestrain. Other users will have their own preferences.

If the most important userinterface features are configurable and this is at least

size of fonts, icons and UI backgroundcolor,  then there will be much more people

happy using Solidworks.

I have eyestrain problems because of too small fonts on a high resolution monitor

since SW2013. I took photos that show the problems in the next link

https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/63964?tstart=0

It's very unfortunate that Solidworks do these changes without considering the wishes of the users, the old narrow dialog box was much better as far as i am concerned....

Well, you're entitled to your point of view, but I disagree-especially since the old dialog box would truncate view names