SW2004 part template problem

you have updated the file locations?

Yes. It was a fresh install so I set them as I wished.

default templates?

Yes. I opened the part template and made whatever changes I wanted, saved it as a part template and exited. All changes are retained except minor spacing and image quality whose changes I am making under document properties. Odd but I think it may have also happened with 2003 but it has been so long I cant recall the fix if there was one.

hmmm.. got me, perhaps someone else knows.. sorry I cant help

The conversation we just had straightened out my thinking. I was inadvertently saving the altered template under tutorial versus templates so when I went beck to open it it still read the default template that came with SW versus the altered one. Appreciate the time and thoughts...

no worries we are here to serve.. : ) pleased you have it sorted

"inadvertently saving the altered template" to a directory other than the one you expected is due, I think, to the programmers at SolidWorks having decided to make the "tutorial" directory the default.

I remember falling into the same trap when upgrading from 2001Plus to

The tutorial should instruct a person to save experimentally modified templates to the tutorial directory. The default shouldn't have been changed, especially without some notice to flag it for seasoned users who shouldn't have to find out about it by accident...

Yes, I believe we corresponded on the same topic with each and every version prior.

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Small point here, but nonetheless important. I think the tutorial templates should not ever be changed, and should therefore not be the default. My point is this - think about a new user that is trying to follow the tutorial to learn how to do something. All of a sudden, something doesn't work as the book says it should because the default templates have been modified, either through testing, or by accident. Of all people that should not have to deal with changed base files, it's someone going through a tutorial.

WT

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I hope someone (preferably lots of someones) turned this in to SW as a bug. As Wayne noted, this is incredibly stupid.

Jerry Steiger Tripod Data Systems