Yesterday, while experimenting in SolidWorks 2004, everytime I inserted a new sketch the view would automatically snap normal to the selected plane or face.
This was quite frustrating, since I typically work in oddly rotated and zoomed in views which had to be reset after each new sketch shifted the viewpoint in an undesirable way.
I've seen this happen in 2004 before, but today the "snap normal" behavior only happens to the first sketch inserted into an otherwise blank part file. I'm glad to NOT be forced into head-on orthographic views, but am afraid to be forced back into "normalcy" at random.
If anyone knows what may be responsible for this inconsistency, I'd certainly be interested in hearing about the cause or means to control it.
BTW - Windows 2000 Pro, SP4 running SWKS 2004, SP1
Per O. Hoel