Drawing units error?

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by WT, Nov 19, 2005.

  1. WT

    WT Guest

    SW2005 SP5.0

    Someone please try this for me to see if maybe I'm just nuts or
    something.

    In a drawing:
    1. Set the units to feet & inches, fractions, denominator 64, but not
    round to the nearest fraction.
    2. Set the dual units to inches, decimal, 3 places.
    3. Draw a line and dimension it to some even fraction.
    4. Turn on dual dimension for it.
    5. At this point you should see an even fraction on the bottom and a
    decimal inch number on the top, assuming your positions match mine.
    6. Now change that dimension to make the primary units round the
    fraction. At this point the top dual dimension changes to millimeters.

    If you set the drawing units to round the fraction, it works fine. But
    if you set the individual dimension to round, it plops metric into the
    dual spot! Or, is it just me????

    Actually as I just try a bit more I find that it doesn't matter what
    the system units or the dimension primary units are set to - if you
    take the dimension off system units, and dual dimension it, the dual
    will always be millimeters, with no apparent way to change it.

    WT
     
    WT, Nov 19, 2005
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  2. WT

    neil Guest

    As far as I am concerned sp5 has a significant number of bugs and there
    should be a proper sp5.1
    I have suspicions the deficiencies come about because sp1 was 6 months in
    the waiting and the following sp were put together in quick time to keep the
    schedule...it is important that users speak up about this because being told
    the issue is fixed in or due to be fixed in 06 is not good enough IMHO.
    It is not good enough to let this slip type of thing through releases -
    SW2005 is not finished yet.
    I really hope this is not a new quality standard....
     
    neil, Nov 19, 2005
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  3. WT

    neil Guest

    maybe so but I think it is pretty bloody poor that users can't now expect
    that sp5 will deliver a 'working' version of a release...I presume SW have
    given up trying to finish things now and just move on.. <sigh>....CAD would
    have to have the worst quality standard of any commercial software....
     
    neil, Nov 19, 2005
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  4. WT

    Dominic V Guest

    Maybe this is another one of those subversive attempts to unify the
    planet into using metric units. (giggle)
     
    Dominic V, Nov 20, 2005
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