Creating Dimensions, Is their a setting to require 2 entities to be selected?

Hello All,

I am hoping there is a setting that I am not seeing....

When creating drawings (dimensions), I find it very annoying that when I make my entity selection, SW assumes I want the length of that line (entity) and if I don't select the next entity perfectly, SW thinks that's my dimension placement.

I can't tell you how many times I need to delete the dimension and start over. I love automation but some times it's too automatic which equals automatic mistakes.

Another issue I see is that SW often wants to select the view - this is very annoying....I wish after a view was placed you needed to do something more to alter it so that you could select away and never get the "view dialog".

Thanks for your time and I appreciate any insight you may have.

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