Showing origins

One of those gut feel things, but can't really prove it. Has anyone else
noticed that origins are not showing the same as they used too? One guy
here says that after I loaded SP3.0 on him this morning, the origins don't
show in a new file - you can turn on showing origins in the View menu. I
had kind of thought that I was seeing something different also but I
couldn't pin it down, but I've been on 3.0ev and then 3.0 for a while and I
don't remember when I think it started for me.

WT

 

It is easy to see a user missing it early on before noticing.

BUT, how does SolidWorks fail to see a major feature ID symbol go
missing before they release a new Service Pack?

Come on Swks: Complete Core Competancy!

Jeesh - Bo

 

Wayne, I'm not completely sure what you're getting at here, but I did
run across a problem today with a part having lost its origin. This was
fully reproducible on several machines using one particular part. The
origin did not show up in the graphics area (regardless of View menu
setting), and the really odd thing is that the origin was even missing
from the Feature Manager. The only immediately identifiable oddity about
the part was that it was built on a "template" from 1995. SW didn't have
templates in 1995 as we know them today, but the first few features
(standard planes) were clearly identifiable as having been created in 1995.

How old are the parts?

 

You are right - they have fixed the "rotate while zoomed in a sketch"
(SPR#350038) which I identified, but appear to now have an issue with
viewing the origin when sketching. This seemed to be a new fault, but I
found that it is fixable - go to "view" and switch on "origins". Then right
click on the origin and "hide" it. The blue origin then disappears in
normal viewing, but appears in red in a sketch.

Henry

 

That was the key - thanks. Ok, so is this a system setting somewhere, or a
document setting, or nothing we can control? It was one of those things
that make you think something is different than it used to be, but I
couldn't put my finger on it.

WT

 

I saw the same thing in August 2003 and reported it here
(search Google groups for "goodbye origin"). Never did get
an explanation for this.

 

There's more to it than just that. I went back to a SP2.2 machine and
opened the same template I opened on my machine. The difference is that on
a 2.2 machine, when you open a sketch, you see two arrows at the origin. If
you show the origin as you have to do in 3.0 to see anything there, then you
see the two arrows and also the little star that's the origin. So the
difference is that the arrows only have disappeared.

I'm going to try to document this and turn it in.

WT

 

Wayne -

I noticed this very first thing when I installed 3.0EV. This was the
first time I'd tried an EV, and when I signed up for it there was some
blurb I read about getting a chance to send in my comments. I never
saw that opportunity....'cause I woulda told 'em.

Thanks Henry for the workaround!

Steve R.

 

Unfortunately I've found that the workaround only goes so far - although you
can see the red origin in sketches, it cannot be selected for snapping to,
dimensioning, etc. Another workaround is required - the new way to select
the origin is to select it indirectly from the feature tree...

This is pretty basic stuff to lose the functionality of - I have been using
SW for 10 years, and all these core modelling techniques which have worked
fine up to now seem to be falling apart (seeing and selecting the origin in
a sketch is a pretty fundamental utility) - What is going on ?

Henry

 

Yup, a bug - SPR 364822.

WT