Re: Showing origins

That was the key - thanks. Ok, so is this a system setting somewhere, or a document setting, or nothing we can control? It was one of those things that make you think something is different than it used to be, but I couldn't put my finger on it.

WT

I saw the same thing in August 2003 and reported it here (search Google groups for "goodbye origin"). Never did get an explanation for this.

There's more to it than just that. I went back to a SP2.2 machine and opened the same template I opened on my machine. The difference is that on a 2.2 machine, when you open a sketch, you see two arrows at the origin. If you show the origin as you have to do in 3.0 to see anything there, then you see the two arrows and also the little star that's the origin. So the difference is that the arrows only have disappeared.

I'm going to try to document this and turn it in.

WT

Wayne -

I noticed this very first thing when I installed 3.0EV. This was the first time I'd tried an EV, and when I signed up for it there was some blurb I read about getting a chance to send in my comments. I never saw that opportunity....'cause I woulda told 'em.

Thanks Henry for the workaround!

Steve R.

Unfortunately I've found that the workaround only goes so far - although you can see the red origin in sketches, it cannot be selected for snapping to, dimensioning, etc. Another workaround is required - the new way to select the origin is to select it indirectly from the feature tree...

This is pretty basic stuff to lose the functionality of - I have been using SW for 10 years, and all these core modelling techniques which have worked fine up to now seem to be falling apart (seeing and selecting the origin in a sketch is a pretty fundamental utility) - What is going on ?

Henry

Yup, a bug - SPR 364822.

WT