weird solidworks dimension error

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Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Just in the last day my copy of solidworks has been acting very strange.

In parts, assemblies and drawings, the diameter symbol has been replaced with <MOD-DIAM> , and so on for every symbol in every dimension type. It is extremely annoying visually, and also a pain to manually fix on drawings. Any Ideas?

What version is it?

Just as an fyi:
The <MOD-DIAM> is the code all DIAMETER dimensions have that tells the program you want a diameter symbol represented.

If you look at the properties of a normal dimension, you would see just <DIM>.

There are plenty more codes like that within the dimensions of SolidWorks, & you can override all of them, but you didn't hear that from me. (This is all supposed to be parametric don't forget. lol)

I know I ran across that problem when we upgraded from 2006 to 2008.

SW 2008 is a joke plain & simple. There are way too many bugs in it!
If you have the option to skip that version & go right to 2009 when upgrading, do it!!