Recently, we’ve had several customers recognize a slight quirk in SolidWorks 2009 SP5 and SolidWorks 2010 SP1.   There was a change made to how the Edit Referenced File location dialog box works, but the directions on how this tool now functions were not included. 

To open a file with a new reference you can go to File>Open, and hit the References… button in the Open dialog.  In previous releases users could double-click the filename in the table to browse to a new file to reference.  In these 2 specific versions, you now have to hold the Ctrl key down while double-clicking – but careful!  You must double-click within the cell, but not actually on the text within the cell.  Since this new behavior is not exactly intuitive, and any indication that the functionality had changed was omitted, a hot fix has been released to restore the previous behavior.

The hot fix is attached to Solution S-045011 on the SolidWorks Knowledge Base (accessible through the Customer Portal).  Or contact us here at (763) 560-8600 option 4 or support@symsolutions.com and we can provide it for you.