Measure dialog box

I think SP4.0ev has introduced a new feature to the measure box, but I would
like someone else to verify it, please. The box now has a section that
displays the names of the selected entities. This, then gives you the
opportunity to delete a selection by the name, rather than clicking on it in
the graphics area.

I presume the SP is where it came from, but I was also wondering if I did
something else instead that made it show up.

WT

 

If I understand you correctly, I have that in 2004, and I recall it having
been there for some time. I suspect you're just noticing it...

 

I looked at a machine running SW2005, SP1.1 and it was not like that. The
measure box changed with SW2005, and I think this feature disappeared and
just now came back.

WT

 

We are currently only up to SW2004 SP5.0, and I believe that the box
you are referring to has been there ever since I've been using SW
(since SW2000).

Ken

 

I just read through the list for SP4.0 and sure enough, it's there. The
wording suggests that the box used to be there, was gone, and now is back.
See, I wasn't crazy.

WT

 

We have several identical HP boxes here and all are maintained by me,
but one has a different measure dialog box. It seems that I am going
crazy trying to find out why this one machine loaded with identical
software does not let the user expand the measure dialog box with the
upper right corner down arrow icon like dojiggy. It only shows the
values of the measure on the video screen.

Ron

 

I have a question regarding the measure tool in SW2004 SP 5.0 (probably
a dumb one but anyway)
When I measure between two holes in gives me the distance between
centres.
When I measure the distance from a hole to an edge it gives me the size
to the edge of the hole not the centre. Is this default, can I get
solidworks to give me a distance from an edge to the centre of the
hole, or the minimum distance between two holes?

Trevor

 

I had this problem too... until support told me to drag the bottom edge
down. Duh.

... and this was on a new install of SW.

 

SW2005 gives you those options, but I don't remember any way to control it
in SW2004. Maybe someone that is still using it knows of a way.

WT

 

This is a little tricky. SW is a little too clever about how it presents the
results when measuring between holes. The good new is, sometime around
SW2004 or so, they added another value down at the bottom of the measurement
box, "Shortest distance between selected entities".

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"