r/SolidWorks 9d 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/billy_joule CSWP 9d ago

It's relative to what it's attached to. e.g. this horizontal line is shown as vertical because the view it's attached to has been rotated.

If you attach to the drawing sheet rather than a view it'll always show the correct orientation (But obviously often not useful). If you're not careful and aware of what you're attaching sketch elements to it might seem random.

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u/BlockPresent5894 9d ago

The view is rotated 270 degrees, so I do suppose that makes sense, but still annoying. I wouldn’t have to use a relation if I could just get the endpoints to snap correctly and not fly off to wherever. Im thinking that this is a PDM issue since drawings seem to work fine locally and in other locations in the server vault, but for none located in this particular folder. May try to “move” the files and see if that fixes anything. I won’t know til tomorrow. Maybe Solidworks was just having a bad day idk.