SW2016 driving me crazy

[Spurs]

I am getting some erratic behavior in SW2016

if I have an existing sketch on the front plane and I go to add a new sketch on the front plane, if I try to draw a circle the circle appears. THen I go to dimension it and if for example I dimension the diameter as 1.8 mm the circle stays in the same position on screen but the other sketches zoom back. Essentially the circle I just drew changes positions based on the diameter I give it. No features are linked on this circle - i.e. no points tangents etc. If I change the value the circle no longer moves.

If however I redo this procedure on a new sketch and as an example put 0.5 mm into the diameter, again the circle looks like its in the same spot but the sketch just zooms back and the circle is actually moved closer to the origin.

Why would the positon of the circle move just by dimensioning a diameter if there are no other linked geometric features? This is driving me nuts because the movement is triple the work.

Also, I noticed that if draw the circle on the same sketch as some previous geometry, once I dimension the circle 1.8 mm in diameter, the rest of the sketch enlarges like a scaling thing.. WTF ? help!

And lastly - if I go to move geometry using the move command and enter x y coordinates of how far to move things, it does not always move exactly that amount to 8 decimal places - sometimes it moves a different amount.

Soo many bugs in SW2016 - waste of money

 

[Theophilus]

Sounds to me like the "autosize" feature is messing up. I may have the terminology wrong, but a few releases ago, if you created a sketch with lots of stuff going on (or just a circle), when you added your first dimension, rather than resizing the element from whatever size it was to the true dimensioned size, it would remain the same size on the screen and assume the required "zoom" amount to do so.

In your case, my assumption would be you had no dimensions in the first sketch, created the circle in the second sketch, where your first dimension is used. The autosize feature is then attempting to do its thing in the second sketch, rather than doing so in the first.

If my theory is correct, then if you delete the second sketch and dimension one element in the first sketch this should no longer happen. Or, it's simply a bug.

Hope you're not using v2016 for production work--might hurt.



Jeff Mowry

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[mfritze]

Yea SW2016 is a nightmare. I am having problems with line selecting in sketches, the software automatically and randomly changing the feature scope to specific bodies, etc etc. I've only been using it 2 days and have a list of dozen bugs I am encountering. How did this get through their quality??

 

[ctopher]

Have you tried updating to SP2.0?

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[ctopher]

I really don't see why so many users are having so many problems.
I have been testing SW 2016 for the past 3 months, up to SP2.0, no problems.
The software needs to be installed correctly, and the correct settings. Proper training helps.

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[Spurs]

ctopher

I installed it with a fresh install on a brand new computer - so it did not have any previous version's settings on the system.

the setup was done completely by SW internal settings

Yes SP2.0 did resolve this problem however it created a new one

now whenever I want to click on an existing sketch, before it allows me to click the open sketch icon it goes through each curve in the part and highlights it - this can take a minute or two on complex geometries - how do I turn this off !

 

[SBaugh]

While I worked in Support for 8 years I would see some people fight several issues while others had no problems at all. If you are one that is not having any problems or don't understand what the problems are your turn is coming ctopher just kidding with you bud. However its true, it just varies so much and there is no reason why one person has issue after issue, but no one else does. Happens to me all the time honestly... I am fighting through SW 2015 SP5 with slow selections in the FM (one of many problems), but no one else can recreate it, both here at the office and with our VAR. Dell even replaced my PC with a SSD and I am still having trouble. As for 2016 I would have hoped it would be better by now, but it sounds like its not for some. I have no plans to upgrade as of yet... more importantly for me thanks for posting this thread makes it that much easier for me to show management we are not upgrading yet.

As for your issue, check your Video card driver... you might even go an get the latest released driver whether its supported or not. I am doing this all the time since I think most of my 2015 issues are video related. The certified drivers have not worked for me and sometimes the beta drivers fix some issues, but not others. Its a chance for you to take, but it might pay off.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
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[ctopher]

I always test new updates on a laptop to find out any issues up front, especially with the update itself. Sometimes the problems are Windows related, but are not obvious. Our IT guy works with me on that end.
All PC's are different. Each user has his/her own setup, which 'can' change the software habits.
I don't update drivers unless there is a problem that's related to them.
I have also seen other installed software that conflicts with SolidWorks.
At one company we figured out that if AutoCAD was installed, then SolidWorks installed, there was a problem with SolidWorks.
We had to uninstall everything, then reinstall SW first, then ACAD. Everything was good after that.
Weird.

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