sketched entity

I am using SW 2004. In drawing mode, I sketched a few entities. I
later tried to delete them. I was able to delete all the entities
except one (a vertical line). I tried unsuccessfully to put this
entity on a layer and blank it. I did notice that the entity was
related to a view (when I moved the view, the entity moved with it).
Out of desperation, I gave the entity a dimension to an edge in the
view, by giving it a very large dimension, this entity was no longer
in my drawing boundary. But of course if you do a "fit all" it will
show up on the screen. Outside of deleting the drawing and starting
again, what could I have done?

TIA

Paul

 

Paul,
You have to activate the view that the line is "attached" to to delete it.

Richard

 

To finish Richard's statement, do a RMB on the view and choose Lock View.
This will then let you select objects that are tied to that view, but far
enough away that the view loses the focus. Don't forget to Unlock it when
done with that task.

WT

 

Paul,

While working in drawing mode (when the System Option "Dynamic drawing
view activation" is ON), SolidWorks responds to the placements of your
mouse cursor by automatically activating one of the drawing views. The
view closest to the cursor is likely to be the one with which the
sketched entities will be associated. This association will
automatically shift to another view when the cursor reaches it,
although the sketch entity will "belong" to the view which was
activated with the beginning point of a line, for example.

The user can manually "lock" one "view focus" or, alternately, the
"sheet focus" to assure that entities sketched (or annotations added)
are purposely associated with one or the other. The options can be
found via use of the right mouse button pull-down menus (with the
cursor over the view or sheet background).

You will likely need to unlock a view (or lock the sheet) in order to
delete the sketch entity you said can't be accessed. If one view is
locked and the sketch entity is associated with another view (or the
sheet), you won't be able to select the line, for example, without
shifting the lock status.

Per O. Hoel
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Thanks Wayne, but I was finished (in my mind at least). And now after seeing
Per's reply, I have to say:

Why do you guys make it so bloody hard????

I have always wondered who uses "Lock View Focus" and Lock Sheet Focus" and
why. It's very simple to double-click a view to activate it, and to
double-click the drawing border area to un-activate views. I have never set
Dynamic View Activation to ON, nor do I intend to - I've seen notes fly
around too many times on other peoples drawings.

Seriously though, could someone explain the virtues or reasons behind using
lock view and lock sheet?

Richard

 

Hmmm, interesting, obviously I answered from the "dynamic" side - always
keep it on for ease of object placement. However, it appears this may be
somewhat of a moot point as it appears that the Dynamic *option* is gone for
2005. Go look up "view boundaries" and read.

It appears that dynamic is always on and the color & style of the boundary
indicates the status of the view. Double-clicking will lock/unlock the
view, but I don't see any way to actually turn off the dynamic feature. The
boundaries are not visible except when activated by passing by or locking.

Now, on the good side, it also appears that if you have a note, etc.
attached to a view, and that note ends up over another view, if you don't
have some view locked, you can still pick up the note. Used to be that you
had to find its owner view, lock it, and then go pick up the note. Now it
appears to recognize that it needs to shift the focus to the note's parent
view. Cool.

WT

 

I hadn't noticed the "auto dynamic" thing. I like the new behavior of
attaching notes to the view automatically if you place it inside the
borders. You can even add multiple notes to multiple views, and as long as
you place them inside the borders they will attach to that view. And it
still works the old way for notes outside the view border - double-click to
activate and the notes stay with the view.

Man, this stuff just keeps getting better and better.

Richard
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