Melissa Appel is at it again on the SolidWorks Forums

Some time ago, Melissa Appel of SolidWorks started a thread in the SolidWorks forum for “silly” drawing workarounds.  This thread got a lot of attention.  Well, she’s at it again.  This time, she’s started a thread called “Show me what we can’t do in SolidWorks annotation formatting“.

There’s already a ton of suggestions that have been posted to this thread.  There’s a mention or two of bugs.  The notorious balloon quantity spacing issue is there.  Several issues with GD&T callouts are on the list.  Better control over breaks in extension lines, extension line termination and other dimensioning issues show up all over the thread.  I even suggested the creation of a SelectionWizard so that users can set up the order precedence when they want to select from several overlapping objects in SolidWorks drawings (and where the selection filter is not desired or is ineffective).

There’s plenty of room for more input in the thread for others who have ideas for improvement with annotation formatting in SolidWorks.  What’s been bugging you about SolidWorks annotation formatting limitations?

Author: fcsuper

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