Drawing Dimensions RED in solidwork 2008

[CADone]

Hi,

I have migrated from SW2007 to SW2008. Almost all my Sw2007 drawing dimensions are appearing RED. Any body here know why?

Appriciate your responses in adv.

Thanks
BMR

 

[ShaggyPE]

You may have an accidental layer in your drawing (possibly from an inserted logo block or something). In your 2007 install you may have had color mode off and in your 2008 install, by default, it came on.

Just a thought as I have had a similar issue in the past where a logo that I inserted from autocad created a text layer in the drawing and the color was red. All text I inserted after that came in red. It took a little searching to figure it out.

-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Certified SolidWorks Professional

 

[macduff]

BMR,
Did someone change the color settings for driving, driven or dangling dimensions under tools/system options/colors? I have our standard for dangling set for the color red. This way I know when dimension links drop from the geometry of the model, and flags us to fix the dimensions

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2008 SP 3.1
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
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[CADone]

I checked my layer settings are default. There is no RED color assigned to any layer.

I even checked the color settings for Driving, driven , dangling, overdefined etc... they are default. Nothing assigned to red.

Its OK, this is not throwing me out though, but I was curious.

Thanks
BMR

 

[vigildesign]

I had a weird bug like what you are describing. Many items were green. I could not find out why and sent info to VAR. Color slider & pick point selection was different than "ColorSolid " box in color change option.

Here is what I saw:

http://files.engineering.com/getfil...3-412c-a508-7ff3829290ea&file=New_Picture.bmp

Options> Colors> Color Scheme Settings>Annotations> Edit.
Check the slider & pickpoint under annotations, do not rely on the color box, as I did. Happened to several other machines also.