Circular pattern

Yep, a ER,.. maybe, a drop down menu with commonly used values!?

And, speaking of drop down menu's... it would be also great to have:

Drop down menus on the heads-up displayed inputs boxes!? Again, commonly used values or a slider bar or a match value (by pitching an existing set value)!?

More direct screen interaction... so, quickly changing values on the screen instead of key input?

=2E.

Wayne Tiffany wrote:

Yeah, I've often wondered who decided that 15° was a reasonable default. Just going back to the last used value would be a plus.

Good idea, I'll fill out an ER as well next time I'm at the SWX site.

jk

Something peculiar going on here ?.....I do a lot of circular components patterns and never seen 15° as default

Krister L

I think they are refering to Component Pattern. On 2003 Circular Pattern defaults to 360° yet Component Pattern defaults to 15°

Maybe the 15° increment is the same default as the view rotation default under Tools, Options, System Options, View Rotation?

Greg

Nice thought, but nope. Just tried setting the view rotation to 180°, but the Component Pattern/Circular Pattern default was still 15°. SW2004 SP2.1

WT

It is found in the registry. If you have permission, goto Start , run, type regedit. search for View Rotate Increment. It is under the "key" Software Solidworks 2003 General. As always it is a little dangerous to edit the registry, but I've done it a lot. Some "key" settings get rewritten when Solidworks is restarted. There are 2 areas, one local and one current user (network). Make sure you change the proper location.

Warren

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Nope, this is the key for the View Rotation Increment, and is capable of being set from Tools/Options. It doesn't affect the default value for the circular component pattern. I just tried changing both the Local_User & Local_Machine, and neither one had an effect on the pattern value.

WT

I just wanted to jump in here with my 2 cents.

The Rib Thickness defaults to: 0.39370079in. No matter how many I create it always goes back to 0.39370079in. And my "Spin Box Increments" are set to .0625in.

I like Pauls idea of a drop down menu of the most recent values used.