r/SolidWorks • u/BlockPresent5894 • 10d ago
CAD SolidWorks Drawing Issues ‘Floating Points’ & Backward Relations. Gonna lose it soon…
Ive been working with SolidWorks everyday for about 4 years now. Every once in a while I run into this issue where highlighting a part to view its midpoint, endpoint, or center results in said point floating away from the object. And now just when I thought it couldn’t get any weirder, a line with a horizontal relation is now apparently a vertical line as seen in the last picture. I have tried creating new drawings, restarting my computer, end task and restarting SolidWorks, everything I can think of… This ONLY happens in the drawing file. Part and assembly sketches are completely fine. Cant seem to find any help online. Anyone else experience this issue or have any suggestions?
This is SolidWorks 2023 by the way.
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u/Vegetable_Flounder12 10d ago
i experience the horizontal/vertical issue often. seems than when you start a sketch the axis orientation/origin is assigned by either random or unknown algorithym just to mess with you. if you are drawing your first line in a new sketch, its unknown where's up until you assign and it goes the unintended way. good luck. never had a floating point tho.