New Feature begining to irritate me

[Vinnie4]

The View palette is becoming a nuisance to me. We mostly generate DXF files to import in to our laser and these need to be 1:1 but now with thie view pallet Having 8 views SW defaults to the palette views scale rather than the drawing view forcing me to change this each time. is there a way to turn of the view palete or permanently set the dxf output scale = to sheet scale?

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Tools > Options > System Options > Drawings and uncheck Automatically scale new drawing views

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[dmeyers]

To turn it off (what I do because it drives me crazy too) -

Tools > Options > System Options > Drawings > Uncheck "Show view palette"

 

[Vinnie4]

Thanks! I did both and got the result I was wanting!

 

[StefanHamminga]

Same here, I'm curious to who actually likes the view palette, as I can't see the benefit just yet (I have seen SW brought on its knees from generating the bl**dy palette when working with complex assemblies).

Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer/AI student

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

I haven't used it much, but like you I don't really see the improvement over the alternate view manager.

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How to find answers ... faq559-1091​

SW2006-SP5 Basic ... No PDM​

 

[bluesman0007]

Well I was a little annoyed by the view palette in the beginning but I've decided it is a good thing for me. I generally model and draw everything from the front plane or view. I sometimes had to trial and error selecting views from the old view selection. I find it allows me to actually look at the views to determine the most effective drawing view. I sometimes also like to use the current view if it makes the drawing easier to understand, and I didn't always know what the current view looked like without pulling the part back up. Vote:

Dennis

SolidWorks 2007 SP0.0
Windows XP Pro, Pentium4 3.00GHz
1.5 GB RAM, Matrox P650
Logitech Marble Mouse, CadMan