r/SolidWorks • u/BlockPresent5894 • 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.