4 Replies Latest reply on Jun 25, 2015 9:10 AM by Scott Baugh

Options - Add dimensions

Scott Baugh Jun 18, 2015 10:49 AM

I saw this new option while doing a sketch "Add Dimensions". I tried it out.. its cool it adds a dimension, until you find out its driven and you cannot change it. So I searched the help without finding a solution to make it not a driven dim. So while in the sketch circle command I clicked the question mark, yet there is still no information on this option, sigh...

Does anyone have a solution to not make the automatic dimension not be read-only?

Also can someone at Solidworks please update the help again so all the new additions are in the help... especially when you click on the question mark while in a command?

Scott

Re: Options - Add dimensions

Alex Taguchi Jun 18, 2015 4:49 PM (in response to Scott Baugh)

That 'add dimensions' only appears when you have the 'enable numeric input on entity creation' enabled under the system options>sketch. This allows you to control whether or not when you type in the values in the little on screen boxes, it adds a smart dim or not.

However, when I tested it, it works fine and adds driving dimensions to my sketch
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  Scott Baugh Jun 18, 2015 4:59 PM (in response to Alex Taguchi)
  
  Thanks for the Reply Alex... however mine is not working like yours. So that tells me there must be a way to switch between driven\driving.
  
  Here is a video of the problem:
  06.18.2015-15.56.59 - CredenceSB's library
  
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Re: Options - Add dimensions

Ravi Shrivastava Jun 25, 2015 8:36 AM (in response to Scott Baugh)

Hi Scott,
It seems like the option “Sketch Dimension Driven” is enabled which is causing the resultant dimensions to be created as driven. You can turn it off by enabling any sketch tool command i.e Line, circle etc. and do a right click in graphics area where you will see this icon to turn it off.

For more details you can check SOLIDWORKS help at:
http://help.solidworks.com/2015/english/solidworks/sldworks/t_inserting_reference_dimensions.htm

-Ravi
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  Scott Baugh Jun 25, 2015 9:10 AM (in response to Ravi Shrivastava)
  
  THANKS Ravi!
  
  That was what I was looking for... Not an easy item to find in the help even when you do a search. That fixed the issue I was having... thanks again Ravi!!
  
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