Dimension set to "This Configuration" by default. Help!

On a part I've created in SW2007, when I add new configurations, many
of the dimensions are set to "This Configuration" in sketches. This
should not be the case (as far as I know).

Does anyone know where to globally make them all apply to "All
Configurations" by default!

Thank you.

 

I believe that dimensions default to "All Configurations" until you change
that to "This Configuration" or "Specify Configuration(s)", or you put in a
Design Table with that dimension changing. But SolidWorks does have a habit
of changing other parameters in mysterious ways without my input, so perhaps
it bit you in this particular fashion.

I don't.

Jerry Steiger

 

Thanks for the sympathy Jerry.

As an experiment, I deleted all of my configurations (a copy of my
real part - the config's are relatively complex).

Once all configurations were deleted, I checked the dimensions, and
the "apply to configuration" menu disappears (as it should). As soon
as I add a configuration again, the dimensions again default to apply
to "This Configuration".

HELP!!!

 

I get the same behavior on a test part. Dimensions which were "This
Configuration" before I deleted the configurations were "This Configuration"
after I built new ones. Dimensions which were "All Configurations" stayed
the same in the new configurations.

Jerry Steiger

 

Thanks for the confirmation Jerry.

I'm at a client's office at the moment (discs not with me), or else
I'd update to the latest 2007 service pack.

I'm on 2007 SP 2.2

 

I'm on 2007 4.0, for what it's worth. I didn't see an error that looked like
this on any of the fixed General SPRs after 2.2. I suspect your file just
got messed up somehow.

Jerry