I we don't use the MSE, is there any way it can be disabled?
Yes...
One solution could be (I haven't tested it) to have the autocylinder window open, select a cylinder to measure, change the ending offset, create and click a new feature. At this point, the SmartCalculation should not calculate and override the ending offset provided by the user - I think it should only calculate the ending offset upon autofeaturedialog creation.
That doesn't work. The smart calculation gets activated every time you click on the cad so, even if you override it by entering a value, as soon as you click a surface, it will be applied again. For now, the only way to achieve the kind of control people are asking for - being able to choose whether the smart calculation is on or off when creating features - is through the MSE and the quick feature widget. You would need to save a MSE configuration that had the smart ending offset exposed in the widget, then, you could use the widget to override whether it was on/off as you create features.
As I've previously said, this only applies to quick features, it has no affect on the auto-feature dialog behaviour.
The team that were responsible for the smart calculation are in the process of adding a setting to disable it in the auto feature dialog. It will be available in 2024.1 (due out next week) and pushed to prior service packs where possible.
