×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Re-appearing text in dimension

Re-appearing text in dimension

Re-appearing text in dimension

(OP)
Here is one I cannot say I have seen discussed out here (although I do not always get to read every post).  Today I was called to help an associate who was having a problem.  We are running SW2003 SP4.0.  He was trying to finish detail someone else had started.  The hole dimension in question was put in using hole callout.  Because the hole (not made with hole wizard) was put in using the through all option, hole callout added the word thru to the dimension.  He did want thru in the callout so he edited the dimension and removed it.  When he printed the drawing, the thru would magically re-appear.  He edited the dimension several times, saved the drawing,  and even exited out of SW then re-opened the drawing, printed and the thru re-appearred.  When I came over to help, I had him open the model and look at how the feature was modeled.  Nothing looked out of the ordinary so I had him go back to the drawing and edit out the thru again.  This time when he printed the thru did not re-appear.  Unfortunately, he saved so we now cannot duplicate the problem.  Any suggestions on what caused this or should I just chalk it up to one the those mysterious bugs that show up now and then?

RE: Re-appearing text in dimension

I've seen this as well and it is repeatable...give it time. My guess is that it's a bug. Let me know if you find anything out to solve this.

Good luck!

RE: Re-appearing text in dimension

If he doesn't want certain items to appear in your hole callout you should edit the "calloutformat.txt" Located under "C:\Program Files\SolidWorks\lang\english".

***Back it up First ***

Have you tried SP5.0 for SW03? Maybe there is a fix in there if it was a bug.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
When in doubt, always check th

RE: Re-appearing text in dimension

(OP)
That was one of my first thoughts Scott.  However, the calloutformat.txt file is still being tweaked by upper management.

I cannot upgrade to SP 5.0 without premission.  I suppose I could have sent it off to our VAR, they keep several versions of SW on hand, but now that I cannot repeat the bug, it would not make any difference anyway.

All I was really looking for was if anyone else had seen this problem.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources