Measure tool??????

My measure tool will not display angle????????
I have two lines in a sketch I select them and hit masure and nouthing (same
in parts assemblies and varying selections of faces), I have hit the little
down arrow on the right side of the popup box and nouthing... Ahhhgggggg
TTHHHBBBTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! erffffffffff grrrrrr

PLEASE help I really need some measurements from a assembly

Ben

SW 2005 SP2

 

I just tried it here on SW2005 SP2.0 and it worked fine. Do you get any
action at all? Has it always been this way? Just started with the SP
update?

WT

 

Just started with the service pack...
I get the pretty colored lines denoting the normal distance and x,y
distances sometimes z but no angle. Guess this is a problem for SW... bwaaa
haahaha they are soo busy with 2006 they will never get to this one. I did
once submit problems back in 2001+-2003, I figgure 50 or so, never had a
responce to them? My dont get me wrong my VAR is exelent at helping, but SW
is another case altogether.

Ben

 

Ben, you must be doing something wrong.

Assuming you are selecting two things that can have an angular relationship
(two lines, two planer faces, etc.) the angle will show up in the measure
tool box not on the screen.

HTH,
Muggs

 

That is just it I have the measure tool box and on the right side of the box
is a arrow to expand or compress the box, I hit the arrow it flips down but
no expansion! I hit it again and it points up and nouthing happens other
than the symbol on the button has changed to arrows up! I have made a
assembly of a part that is patterned around a axis and have made a part in
the same manner to test (two seperate and not related files), so if I select
the same face of each part patterned around the axis there should be an
angle. Again no angle.

Ben

 

So, the issue is that you can't get the dialog box to drop open? Oh, why
didn't you say so!!

Anyway, I don't have an answer...

But, I have found some registry settings on my machine that might yield a
clue. Here are my values - see how yours compare.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SolidWorks\SolidWorks 2005\User Interface\Dialogs
uiMeasureDlg_c = 0,1,-1,-1,-1,-1,0,0,202,176

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SolidWorks\SolidWorks 2005\User Interface\Dialogs
uiMeasurementOptionDlg_c = 0,1,-1,-1,-1,-1,364,40,619,473

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SolidWorks\SolidWorks 2005\User Interface\Dialogs
uiMeasureOptionSelectorDlg_c = 0,1,-1,-1,-1,-1,0,38,234,380

WT

 

My numbers are below your numbers for the reg files, I have changed them to
your values and still the same. Thanks for the suggestion though

Ben

 

Thanks for the advice, I have tried all that and no go...
Looking like I might have to re-install SW

Ben

 

You might first try renaming/deleting the local user key for SW. If that
works, you wouldn't have to reinstall.

WT

 

Oh yaaa! good call,

 

In the registry, SW stores information in two major areas - Local_Machine &
Current_User. When you install it, both areas get written to. When another
user logs in, another CU key is created for that user and these CU keys are
what hold the settings, etc. So, if something gets really messed up, you
can delete or rename that CU key so that SW has to rebuild it based on the
(hopefully) unchanged LM key. If you are not comfortable editing the
registry, get some help - if you mess with the wrong stuff, you can end up
with a door stop. (Ok, maybe not quite that bad.)

WT

 

Thanks!

 

For those that care, I used the copy options wizard on another machine and
imported the sytem settings (this alone nouthing else) into my machine. IT
WORKED! so I still have all my toolbars and keyboard shortcuts etc etc and
now can measure angles

Ben
Thanks to all who helped

 

"That is just it I have the measure tool box and on the right side of
the box
is a arrow to expand or compress the box, I hit the arrow it flips down
but
no expansion! "

I face same problem after i upgrade to sp2. after playing it for while,
i have solvethis problem. Actually, the measure tool box was there, but
in "minimize" condition. After the arrow flip down, point your mouse to
bottom left cover of the measure tool box, click on left button, hold
it and drag to right/bottom to "expend " the tool box.

rocket911