Have you tried using a form tool?

My biggest tip for using Auto Balloon would be the same as my biggest tip for using Auto Explode, Auto Dimension, and Auto Anything else. Don't bother. OK, that may be a bit cynical of me, but practically speaking I've seldom, if ever, found much of SW's "Auto" functionality to be very fun...

Regarding sheetmetal, IIRC, it first appeared in '98 or maybe '98Plus (they used to actually add new features in what would qualify as a SP today). I was in school at the time and our instructor insisted that we ignore the intriguing new feature, as we were still learning the ins and outs of manuall...

Do you mind if I ask why you prefer manual rebuilding? I'm curious, not arguing. Most of the time rebuilding to check that the change doesn't cause any unexpected changes before exiting the dialog box takes practically no time and only costs you one click. If something unexpected happens you can ca...

You can sort of do this with Solidworks. But you have to have Instant 3D on. Once you have instant 3D on, you can double click on a feature and all of it's relevant dimensions show up....then you can click each one and modify at will and everything is updated immediately. image.png That should work...

SPerman wrote: ↑Tue Nov 16, 2021 6:55 pm I would log into that mess to vote for that.

I wouldn't, I was just poking around over there and it's still the same flaming hot mess it was when I first tried to figure it out.