Dimension Palette Update for SP3

The infamous “Dimension palette” introduced to the SolidWorks user community has been received with much fanfare. Many people have come to love it or hate it. The concept is great. As soon as you select a dimension, it gives you a heads-up interface in which you can change the tolerance, unit precision and browse to you company standard favorite dimension styles, and even a list of recent styles you have used. The issue many customers had was that it either got in the way or botched up their graphics. This has been fixed for SolidWorks 2010 SP3! Take a look at the video below to see how it has been implemented. Essentially, once you pick a dimension it pops up with a more innocuous button. Once you hover over that button it opens the full “Dimension Palette”. The next cool thing deals with the position of the palette. You can grab the tab on top of the palette and move it if it is in the way. On the graphics standpoint, it does not use the fade in effect, like it used to, which will take less of a toll on systems with lower resources. Check it out and use it and drop us a comment on how it works!!!