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Tim you have to "make" a dimension style and name it. Each time then you change all the wrong ones to your named dimensioned style. I was amazed it has not improved any from when I learned it in 1986......developers must be sleeping. Still......you give great lessons and you deserve plenty pints from the students. GREAT WORK and THANKS
Great training for newbies and returnees(like me).....But brought back all the nightmares ISO drawings, Dimensions styles, Paper and Model space......Incredible how it has not improved. (in those areas..!..)Guess I got used to all the majors CATIA, PROE,NX and Solid Works.....(they had no such aggrivations). Nice the way you brought it all back to me. Lucky trainees please appreciate Tim....(from an ex Autocad expert and now a CAD Trainer on other systems) Are you from the Midlands Tim? (A Derryman)
Thanks for showing me why I was right to choose Solidworks. I'm not sure when I last saw anything quite this awkward. I played along, creating the same in SW, and I created the chairs and table as full 3D models (artistic license in creating legs etc). SW then created the projected drawings for me, fully dimensioned. Chairs and table created separately then put together as an assembly.
I hear you - AutoCAD is a clunky program no doubt but there are lots of jobs and many drawings out there still done in AutoCAD. Every solidworks user - still should know a little autocad
I used Autocad (and learned CAD on it) when it was a DOS programme, and for simple 2d drawings it is still useful. But the way I use Solidworks is probably not "official". I sketch in all the approximate shapes - circles, rectangles etc - that I want in the drawing, using the relationship anchors. Then click the "dimension everything" button. After that it is just a case of clicking every dimension and typing in the value I want. That being done I start extruding and cutting the solids.
