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SPerman wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 3:59 pm I definitely have a non-standard layout. I remember one time my VAR remoted in, and you would think I had asked them to do Cad in Word Perfect. They were absolutely lost because the buttons aren't where they expected them.

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 4:03 pm lol, I've had that in 2019, the tooltip would span across the entire screen. What a P.I.T.A. that was.

SolidKeke wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:26 am We just updated from sw22sp5 to sw23sp5 and faced first annoying issue:

If drawing view has tangent edges hidden, it's impossible to dimension structural members. When you switch to tangent edges with font, you can dimension. Anyone else has this same behaviour?

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EDIT:
Found fix SPR1254289
"workaround: In SW2022, it works if Options > Selection > Selection of hidden edges > ‘Allow selection in HLR and shaded mode’ option is selected"

DavidWS wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2024 9:38 am We have also run across this annoying behavior, but can't repeat it in all instances.

Another work-around for us for this annoying bugger is to change the view to hidden lines showing to be able to dimension those silhouette edges.

bnemec wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2024 10:51 am Check your graphics drivers on the various machines. Not talking about the typical "certified driver" cop-out. It might be worth while to try various driver versions, depending on which version of SW you're running.

We have mostly identical CAD work stations throughout the department. Thanks to windows updates and other unknown randomness the installed driver version does vary. I had kept mind at 443.66 for a long time, but now trying 474.82. Hoping when we get to 2023 we can just use latest driver, but we've had various issues with the 500 series nVidia drivers on SW 2019SP4. Unfortunately, Windows update seems to keep installing the 500 drivers.

We recently had very inconsistent behavior with how Decals were showing in models. Turns up we had four different machines behaving differently due to four different drivers installed.

mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2024 3:32 pm Quit using decals...

bnemec wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2024 10:51 am Unfortunately, Windows update seems to keep installing the 500 drivers.

• Var Hawkridge for windows 10
• Var Javelin-Tech for windows 11

BR Article: BR10000372717
Status: Open

Align Vertical/Horizontal by origin causes the centreline in an auxiliary view to move to the wrong position
Portfolio / Domain: SOLIDWORKS Desktop / E-Apps
Product: Drawings
OS: Windows 10 64 bits
Detected level(s): SOLIDWORKS 2023 SP5
Platform: n/a
Description

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open drawing
Notice >> There are two standard views - Front and Right Side view
2. Create Auxiliary view of the Front View
3. Place the Auxiliary view and then apply centrelines to it.
4. Break alignment between auxiliary view and Front view.
5. Align the auxiliary view to Right Right Side view by "Align Vertical by Origin"
Notice >> The centreline in an auxiliary view are at wrong position


Current Result: Centreline in an auxiliary view move to the wrong position outside the view

Expected Result: Centreline in an auxiliary view should remain at expected position

Closure Information
This issue is reported to Dassault Systèmes development team.

ryan-feeley wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2024 3:39 pm You need to take control of the graphics driver version to get consistent performance from Solidworks.

Do a *clean install* of the latest driver from a software branch that is certified to work with your version of solidworks, and then lock to that driver version until you experience some other bug that a newer version will actually fix. Typically you'd click a button called "advanced" on the driver installer to access the clean install option.

There are a few different ways to prevent driver updates. I've always done it with the Group Policy Editor under "Administrative Templates > System > Device Installation > Device Installation Restrictions > Prevent installation of devices that match any of these ids". I got that procedure years ago from this answer on superuser to How do I stop Windows 10 from updating my graphics driver? . The Group Policy Editor is not available on "Home" versions of Windows.

There are other ways that block driver updates for *all devices*:

• Var Hawkridge for windows 10
• Var Javelin-Tech for windows 11

but I prefer the procedure that applies a restriction to only the graphics card since generally I do want Windows to keep my other drivers up-to-date.

Be aware that one downside to my method is a group policy rule will prevent *any update* to the graphics driver. Even one that you do manually. So you must temporarily disable the rule in the future if you want to update the driver version, and then reconfigure it.

bnemec wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2024 10:51 am Check your graphics drivers on the various machines. Not talking about the typical "certified driver" cop-out. It might be worth while to try various driver versions, depending on which version of SW you're running.

We have mostly identical CAD work stations throughout the department. Thanks to windows updates and other unknown randomness the installed driver version does vary. I had kept mind at 443.66 for a long time, but now trying 474.82. Hoping when we get to 2023 we can just use latest driver, but we've had various issues with the 500 series nVidia drivers on SW 2019SP4. Unfortunately, Windows update seems to keep installing the 500 drivers.

We recently had very inconsistent behavior with how Decals were showing in models. Turns up we had four different machines behaving differently due to four different drivers installed.

• Step to reproduce:
  
  1. Create an empty assy1
  2. Save it on disk
  3. Create an empty assy2
  4. Save it on disk
  5. Insert a couple of assy2 into assy1
  6. Select one of the planes (or origin) of assy1
  
  Graphic area highlights the selected entity for each assy2 inserted into assy1 even if the selected entity is in assy 1.

Selection in assemblies will always select assembly planes instead of medel (<-SIC!) if they are visible/shown.
Portfolio / Domain: SOLIDWORKS Desktop / E-Apps
Product: User Experience (UX)
OS: Windows 10 64 bits
Detected level(s): SOLIDWORKS 2023 SP3
Platform: n/a
Description
1. Open any assembly file. 2. Go to Hide/Show Items > Make planes visible 3. Try to select model edge/face. 4. Notice >> if there is plane in front/background of the model, the plane is highlighted and selected instead of model.
Closure Information

Issue is not reproducible in future versions (SW2024)

Level Closure Type
SOLIDWORKS 2024 SP0 Unreproducible