-normal to- change in 2005?

Is it my imagination, or does the "Normal To" command work differently
in 2005? I thought that if I select NT more than once, it would flip
the view direction for the plane being viewed? So the first selection
of NT would view the the plane from the top (for example) and then
selecting it again, would view the same plane from the bottom. I am
pretty sure this is how it worked in 2004, or even 2005 beta. but I do
not have those installed anymore to check. Or have I accidentally
changed a setting somewhere that affects this.

I thought I had one of my spaceball buttons mapped to this, and it was
very useful to quickly switch between view directions, also for
sketching.

Thanks to anyone who can remind me of the trick if I have forgotten it!

Cheers,
Daniel

 

There has always been a trick with normal to in that when you select the
face and then select another face it orients the first face normal two with
the second determinine UP. Sure you haven't run into that?

 

In 2004, after the steps above, you could hit the normal-to icon again and
it would reverse the view. It's been removed in 2005, I hope they put it
back.

Richard

 

In the meantime, remember that using <SHIFT> + arrow rotates a view
90°. Two hits = 180° --> complete flip.

 

actually, I had never used that technique and only realised that you
could select 2 surfaces after reading it in the help file. I always
used the "simple" one step action.

 

So it is not my imagination! Thanks! I will send it in as a regression.

 

Yes, that is what I do, but it is no where near as efficient as hitting
the button once to jump back and forth to the opposite side of the
plane.

Thanks!

 

Richard, and All,

I have contacted my VAR on this, and the word from SW is it will be back as
of SP1, so we'll see.

Muggs

 

Thanks - you saved me the time!

I am just happy it is not my mind that is going down the tube....

 

Daniel, it is a bug and has been submitted. Cross fingers for SP1.

regards

SolidWorks

 

Thanks Mark,

–and glad to see you are watching this group. Happy to know you guys at
SW are on top of our concerns.

All the best,
daniel

 

I'll echo that and amplify. Nice to know they've got Mark B to pound on
their software. Pound away, Mr. B.

'Sporky'