alt + (letter) not adding relationship

Question for you guys, this might be a possible bug with 2004 SP 5.0
Used to, pre-5.0, you could be in sketch mode, and you needed to add a
tangent relationship, you could do an alt+a, and it would make your
segment tangent, all while keeping your pointer in the graphics area.
You could do this with all the relationships available for the selected
entities/segments. To know which letter to use, look at the tree and
next to the relationship type button, it states the relationship type,
well there is one letter that is underlined. That is the letter you add
to the alt key to add the relationship.

Now try to do this in 2004 sp5.0. The only one I can get to work
correctly is the equal relationship. This is very annoying, as I have
become pretty efficent at adding relations quickly. Now I have to go
over to the tree and select a relationship.

Anyone want to try this and see if it is happening to their system?
Thanks in advance
mrcswp

 

SW2004 SP5.0
Mine seem to work just fine. Make sure you don't have any macros tied to
some of those key combinations as they will probably grab first.

WT

 

There arent any macro's tied to them. Are you staying in the graphics
area, when you do the key combination? I havent changed any settings
under tools>options. When I upgraded, I did a copy options wizard, and
then ran that registry file to update the settings.

On another note, did you have to uninstall solidworks to be able to get
sp 5.0 installed?

mrcswp

 

p.s.
The key combination will work, if I click over in the tree area first.

 

What I tried was pick a line and CTRL pick a circle, then hit ALT-a -
nothing more, nothing less. I couldn't do everything because I have an
external macro program tied to ALT-v and it grabbed the input first.

As far as installing, my installation went from 0 to 5 in one step - I had
recently done a fresh install trying to solve a problem. But I tried it on
another machine that has been upgraded through several SP's and it worked
just fine.

You might try renaming the CU.....SW reg key so it has to rebuild it from
the LM key and see if that fixes it.

WT