2004 Interface Questions

A user has asked me if there is a way to turn off the flyout menus?
Also, the line weights of sketched lines appear to be heavier than
they were in 2001. It now makes it difficult to differentiate between
sketch lines and converted edges?

Any thoughts, what am I missing.


Guy

 

Guy,

By "flyout menus" I assume you are refering to the LARGE Tooltips that
are enabled by default in SolidWorks 2004. They can be shut off by
using the Tools/Customize main menu to check OFF the "use large
tooltips" option.

Not only do sketched lines and points display more "heavily" in 2004,
but the hidden lines displayed (optionally) in shaded mode for
parts/assemblies are shown on the screen with bloated pixels.
Anti-aliasing just makes those hidden lines look even worse.

As far as I know there is NO way to alter the line weight. Apparently
the SolidWorks programmers decided that the Etch-A-Sketch (rather
cartoon-like) appearance is preferable. In my opinion it certainly
isn't. I think it has the effect of making every display look as if it
is supporting only a relatively low resolution...

Per O. Hoel
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Per,

Thanks for the tip! Glad to know I didn't miss anything with regards to the
line weights.

I really wish SW would stop fixing what isn't broken and fix what is!

Guy

 

Right click on the toolbar and uncheck "Command Manager"

Bill