Lock view focus

I'm in the second drawing on a row with same problem. Inserting main
view.... adding two projected and one isometric view.....start working.
Everything looks good till I try to lock view focus in either one of the two
projected views ....the option isn't even there.....when I rmb the view I
just have the option to "activate sheet".
In main view or isometric it works fine, but not in projected. Closing down
drawing and reopen doesn't help. Closing down SW and start all over
helps....then it works as it supposed to. In tools option I have "dynamic
drawing view activation" enabled.
Anyone else seen this ?

SW 2004 Sp1.0

 

I don't use "dyanmic drawing view activation" (It's unchecked) because I
don't like it, but when you RMB on the red outline of the view, "Lock View
Focus" isn't showing up because it is part of the "hidden stuff" accessable
with the down arrows at the bottom of the menu is it?

When I do it, it is "hidden" until I click the arrows, then it pops up into
the "View" section (along with Hide)...


Mr. Pickles
SW 2004 sp2

 

No Mr Pickles.....this wasn't part of the hidden stuff....if I expanded the
menu I still only got the coise "activate sheet", which shouldn't even have
been there as I only had one sheet in both cases

Krister L

 

Most bizarre...

Have you tried resetting or showing all of the shortcut menus?

You can by going to Options - "Shortcut customization"... Choose Show All to
show all the items, or "Reset to defaults" to reset 'em. There is a seperate
section for the pulldown menus...

Maybe this would fix your problem? Otherwise, you may have to reinstall,
whcih would bite.


Mr. Pickles

 

Well....the funny thing is that it worked okay and looked allright after
shutting down and restarting Solid Works. I'm into a lot more drawing
creation today and will keep my eyes open to see if.... and in that case
maybe why... it happens again.

Krister L

 

Hello to you.

I am think you might have on these selections filter.

Manywhile i have on these filters to get only of the surfaces I unable am to
get or even make a dimension on views when makeing the drawing. When is turn
off by me the problem goes to the awayside.

May be these filters are happen to you as well as to me here.

Just to make one pehaps try-

Warmfully,

Habib

 

Hi Habib

No filters active...just created a new drawing here.....open empty drawing
template....set scale to 1:20 insert model view ...take right as first
view.....then two projekted views ...one to the right and one below...klick
ok. Nice drawing. RMB first view and expand the menu by klicking arrows at
the bottom....can lock view focus. RMB projected view to the right ....no
need to expand ......"activate sheet" is already visible....expand
menu...still no option to lock view focus...same goes for projected view
below.

Closed without saving and started all over again....insert three standard
views....same thing here ...only drawing view 1 has the ability to lock view
focus.

Closed again and tried with another drawing template...same thing happens
again....have to save drawing ...close and restart SW to get the option for
locking view focus on drawing view 2 and 3

Tried againg on the laptop with same template and there it works
.....hmmmm... SW 2004 Sp1,0 on both

Krister L

 

I just tried it on 2.1 and it worked just fine.

If you do a RMB on a Drawing View in the Feature Tree, do you get the option
to lock it?

WT

 

Well.....here it seems to be fixed with upgrading to 2.1....haven't seen it
since then

Krister L