1 You can use the CTRL+TAB keys to cycle through files open in SolidWorks.
2 Use the arrow keys to rotate the model. Press the CTRL key plus the arrow keys to move the model. Press the ALT key plus the arrow keys to move the model clockwise or counterclockwise 1 You can use the CTRL+TAB keys to cycle through files open in SolidWorks.
2 Use the arrow keys to rotate the model. Press the CTRL key plus the arrow keys to move the model. Press the ALT key plus the arrow keys to rotate the model clockwise or counterclockwise.
3 You can pin the view-oriented dialog so that it is available at all operating times.
4 Use z to zoom out or SHIFT + z to zoom in on the model.
5 You can use the window dividers at the bottom and side of the working window to watch two or more different perspectives of the same model at the same time. 6 Click the icon of "Display/Delete Geometric Relations" in the toolbar to find the over-defined or suspended geometric relations in the sketch. When the dialog box appears, click Criteria and select Overdefined or Unavailable from its drop-down list.
7 You can drag the icon of the part or assembly on the FeatureManager design tree, and place it on the engineering drawing to automatically generate a standard three-view.
8 You can draw a centerline with and select the Mirror icon to create a "Mirror Line".
9 You can hold down the CTRL key and drag a reference plane to quickly duplicate an equidistant plane, then double-click on this plane to specify the exact distance dimension.
10 You can change the order of features by dragging and dropping them on the FeatureManager design tree.
11 When opening a drawing or assembly, you can change which parts are referenced by using the References button in the Open File dialog box.
12 If the display in hidden line view mode is not accurate enough, you can use Tools/Options/File Properties/Image Quality/Wireframe Quality to adjust the display quality.
13 You can roll back features in its parts by dragging the rollback control bar on the FeatureManager design tree.
14 Using the selection filter toolbar, you can easily select entities.
15 Hold down the CTRL key and drag the feature icon from the FeatureManager design tree to the edge or face you want to modify. You can create fillets, chamfers, and hole duplication on many edges and faces.
16 Select the "Select Other" option on the right-click drop-down menu to perform circular selection operations across entities at the position of the cursor.
17 Click Tools/Options/File Properties/Colors on the menu, then select a feature type from the list, then click Edit to select a color, you can assign a color to the selected feature type.
18 While sketching you can often use the Esc key to return the cursor to selection mode.
19 When the dialog box is open you can use the icon tools on the View toolbar to adjust the view orientation of the model.
20 You can move the cursor over the section line of a project section view, right-click and select its properties option to change the section line.
21 You can create patterns of features, and patterns of patterns, on a part. In an assembly, you can create patterns of components and patterns of assembly-level features.
22 To confirm the function of the toolbar button, you can move the cursor to the icon button on the toolbar and stay for a while, the tooltip will display the function of the button, and the function description of the tool button will appear on the status bar.
23 A fully defined sketch will show all entities in black, and blue if there are under-defined entities.
24 The first component placed in an assembly is fixed by default. To move it, left-click on the component and select the Float option.
25 When using the Family of Parts table, it is good practice to copy and paste the dimension names into the table to ensure that the dimension names match.
26 Cutting lines may include arcs. When you can generate this section view, unfold the section view by rotating the appropriate view's segments to the projection plane.
27 In the assembly body, you can hold down the CTRL key and drag a component in the assembly into the drawing window in the FeatureManager design tree, so that another instance of the component can be created on the assembly.
29 You can display view arrows and names on drawing views. Right-click on the drawing view, select Properties, click "Show View Arrows", and specify a name (one or two characters) as required.
30 You can also create a copy of a component within an assembly without a corresponding copy of the feature.
31 Drag and drop the file from the explorer to the SolidWorks window, so you can open multiple SolidWorks files at the same time.
32 Select Settings in the FeatureManager design tree, and you can drag and drop specific settings on a part into an assembly.
33 Select Tool/Customize/Command on the menu, you can add or remove icon buttons on the toolbar.
34 You can select Tools/Interference Check on the menu to ensure that there are no cross-interferences between components in the assembly.
35 On the menu Tools/Options/Document Properties/Colors, select Colorize and click the Advanced button to make parts transparent.
36 To change the feature name, double-click on the feature name and type a new name.
37 You can toggle the datum planes, datum axes, and origin on or off using the View on menu.
38 Select Tools/Customize on the menu, and you can create shortcuts for frequently used commands.
39 Select Tools/Sketch Tools/Modify Options on the menu, or select the corresponding toolbar button on the Sketch Relations toolbar, and you can move, rotate, or scale the entire sketch.
40 Using View/Display/Section View on the menu, you can create a section view on the model.
41 You can create a custom drawing template and save it using the File/Save Template command on the menu.
42 Using Tools/Sketch Tools/Size while dragging on the menu, you can modify the dimension value of a sketch entity while dragging it. You can make this the default behavior after setting the options in Tools/Options/System Options/Sketch.
43 You can hold down the Shift key to select multiple features on the FeatureManager design tree.
44 You can assign different line styles to many drawing items, including the borders of detail views. Please choose Tools/Options/Document Properties/Linetype on the menu to specify your choice.
45 A minus sign appears in front of the sketch name on the FeatureManager design tree if the sketch is underdefined, and a plus sign appears in front of the sketch name if the sketch is overdefined.
46 If you drag and drop a part into the FeatureManager design tree of an assembly, it will be placed coincident with the origin of the part and the assembly, and the default planes of the part will align with the default planes of the assembly .
47 Duplicating sketches is often useful when lofting between similar sketch profiles. Select the sketch from the FeatureManager design tree or select an entity in the sketch, press CTRL-C to copy, then select a plane or plane, and press CTRL-V to paste the sketch.
48 You can press the "F" key at any time to zoom the drawing to an appropriate size.
49 Selecting the rollback control bar in the FeatureManager design tree and using the up and down arrow keys on the keyboard allows you to step through the order in which the parts were created. Before starting this function, please select Tools/Options/System Options on the menu, and turn on the arrow key navigation function option in the FeatureManager design tree.
50 You can adjust the view orientation of the system for a part or assembly. Please open the View Orientation dialog box, and click on any view name and select Update. At this time, the current view orientation will replace the selected system default view, and all other system views will be updated accordingly.
51 You can measure edges, faces, sketch entities, and the shortest distance between components. Use Tools/Measure on the menu and select a pair of entities to measure.
52 You can view preview images of SolidWorks models in Windows Explorer. Please right-click the file and select Quick View, then select File/Open File Edit to open the model file.
53 You can change the rotation increment when using the arrow keys to rotate the model, please select Tools/Options/System Options/View Rotation on the menu, and then change the value in the arrow keys selection box.
54 You can use CTRL-R to redraw or redraw your frame.
55 When inputting a dimension value, you can use mathematical or trigonometric
56 You can hold down the CTRL key to select multiple annotations and modify them at the same time.
57 Double-click the section line in your drawing to reverse the orientation of the section view.
58 You can drag the breakline in the drawing to change the break length of the break view.
59 When you use a face, ring, or each edge on a sketch profile to refer to an entity or an offset entity, it is easier to select an entire face, ring, or sketch than to select each entity individually.
60 Sheet formats can be manipulated as files using object linking and embedding, which allows you to embed an object such as a .BMP image into the format.
61 Shift-selecting dimension text in drawings allows you to move dimensions from one view to another. $0A Ctrl-selecting dimension text in drawings allows you to copy dimensions from one view to another.
62 Select the largest and smallest arc conditions in the size attribute, and the size marked on the center of the arc or circle can be modified to be marked on its 0-tangent edge.
63 If a feature or reconstruction fails, you can right-click on the icon in the FeatureManager design tree and select the "What's wrong" command to view.
64 You can create parts in an associative assembly (bottom-up design approach).
65 You can hide or suppress components or features in an assembly. Hiding a component or feature makes it invisible, while suppressing functionally removes it from the active assembly, but does not delete it.
66 You can use the commonly used Windows-defined mapping shortcuts to quickly execute Ctrl-N (New)
67 You can embed an active SolidWorks object into MSWord or other OLE 2.0 applications.
68 You can use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V to copy its value from the Measure dialog and paste it into other SolidWorks dialogs.
69 You can select the "read-only" option when the part is opened to prevent writing to the part.
70 Between features and components you can create equations that ensure design intent.
71 If your default unit is inches, you can still enter the value in metric units in the value box, for example: 25mm, SolidWorks will automatically convert the value to the default unit.
72 Using File/Find Related Part Files/Copy on the menu, you can copy all referenced files on an assembly into a new directory.
73 You can import Parasolid files and assemblies directly into SolidWorks.
74 You can attach a geometric tolerance to a dimension value by dragging the geometric tolerance onto the dimension.
75 You can jump to different split windows without using the mouse. Use Tab or F6 to activate the next window, and Shift-Tab or Shift-F6 to activate the previous window.
76 You can create a sketch point at the virtual intersection of two entities. Press and hold the Ctrl key while selecting entities, and select the sketch point toolbar icon. To change the display of plot points, click Virtual Corners on the Tools/Options/Detailing tab on the menu.
77 You can examine the sketch to determine if it can be used to create a specified feature type. When you are editing a sketch, select Tools/Sketch Tools on the menu to check the sketch for feature usage.
78 When using the Sketch Fillet tool, you can add fillets to a sketch by selecting the vertex position at the intersection of entities.
79 You can use the Fillet tool to fillet non-intersecting sketch entities that are automatically trimmed or extended when the fillet is added.
80 You can replace an entity that is already used in a sketch relation, using the Entities table in the Show/Delete Relations dialog box, which displays information about the status and position of each entity.
81 You can join some relationship types to many entities at the same time. For example, you can select three lines and make them equal in length.
82 You can use the feature handles to move or resize extruded and rotated features. On the Features toolbar, click the Dynamically Modify Feature toolbar icon, then select a feature to display the feature handles.
83 When you use the rotation feature handle, you can get more accurate rotation control by moving the cursor away from the model.
84 When you drag a feature, if you hold down the ALT key, the feature maintains its positional dimensions and relations, so the feature is only allowed to move in directions not controlled by dimensions or relations.
85 To select the midpoint of an edge, right-click the edge and choose Select Segment Midpoint.
86 You can use an assembly envelope to quickly select assembly components for various operations, such as compressing, unsuppressing, hiding, showing, copying, and deleting.
87 You can define many fits and then solve them again. Please select the Delay Mate option in the Assembly Mates dialog box.
88 To copy an exploded view from an assembly setup elsewhere, drag and drop the exploded view's icon in the setup table on the FeatureManager design tree.
89 You can align and group many dimensions on one drawing. Press and hold the Ctrl key to select them, then choose Tools/Dimensions/Align Collinear or Align Parallel from the menu.
90 When you save an assembly as an IGES, STL, or VRML file, you can save the entire assembly as a single file, or save each part in the assembly as a separate file.
91 The Save As dialog box allows you to save any SolidWorks file as a TIF file.
92 After specifying a number of changes to each active file, you can automatically save its auto-recovery information. Please select Tools/Options/System Options/Backup from the menu, activate this option and specify the number of times it should be changed.
93 You can specify the directory where SolidWorks saves your backup files. Please select Tools/Options/System Options/Backup on the menu and browse to this directory.
94 You can mark the actual length of an arc after selecting the arc and its two endpoints.
95 You can zoom in on selected entities. Select one or more entities such as edges, faces, etc., and then click the Zoom Selection toolbar icon on the View toolbar. You can also right-click an item in the FeatureManager design tree and select the Zoom Selection command from the drop-down menu.
96 You can drag a file from Windows Explorer and drop it into the SolidWorks window to perform a macro operation.
97 You can add a sheet metal feature to the imported body. Simply import an appropriate body (one with a single thickness) from one of the supported file formats, then select a flat face, and click the Insert Bend tool icon from the Features toolbar icon.
98 You can create a custom bend table for your sheet metal parts. Use a text editor, such as Notepad, to edit the bend table for this instance. After finding langenglishsample.btl, save the table with a new name and extension *.btl in the same directory.
99 You can use the Unfold button on the Features toolbar to return a sheet metal part to an unfolded state. The No Bends toolbar icon button returns the part to the state it was in before any bends were added.
100 In drawings, you can individually control the line style, color, and thickness of model edges, sketch entities, and templates.
101 You can generate an indented Bill of Materials (BOM). Each subassembly is listed as an item with its components below it, indented and without item numbers.
102 By default, the text font used in the Bill of Materials (BOM) can match the annotation font specified in the drawing.
103 In a broken view of a drawing, you can insert multiple breaklines (all in the same direction).
104 You can create a projected view from a section view.
105 You can control the placement of projected, section, detail, and auxiliary views. A preview graphic of the view's boundaries is attached to the cursor to help you place the view where you want it.
106 When you create a new projected view, section view, or auxiliary view, its default state is to align with its main view. To override this default justification, hold down the Ctrl key while you select a placement for this view.
107 When dragging a view, you can control whether you want to see the contents of this drawing view. Please select Tools/Options/System Options/Drawing on the menu, and set the option "Show the content of the drawing view when dragging it".
108 You can specify whether drawing views are automatically updated when the referenced model changes. Please select Tools/Options/System Options/Drawing on the menu, and set the option of "Automatically update drawing view".
109 You can print a selected area within a drawing, and you can specify a scaling factor for the printed area.
110 If you display a double dimension, you can position the alternate unit size above or to the right of the primary unit size. Choose Tools/Options/Detailing tab on the menu and specify this option.
111 To place the dimension text in the middle of the extension line, you can right-click on the dimension and select the command Text Center.
113 In a drawing, if you want to display a diameter dimension as a linear dimension, please select to display in a linear manner from the right-click drop-down menu. When you drag the handle on the dimension text, the extension line snaps and places in 15 degree increments, which allows you to align dimensions horizontally or vertically.
114 You can insert, copy, or move a fillet dimension to any view that displays fillets as actual arcs.
115 You can hold down the Ctrl key to select multiple annotations and move them as a group.
116 When you create a new section view, or update an existing section view, a centerline is automatically generated for each hole or revolved feature. Please select Tools/Options/Detailing tab on the menu, and specify the extension distance of the centerline (this refers to the part beyond the model edge).
117 To add a hole callout symbol to multiple holes, you can click the hole callout toolbar icon and select each hole to which you want to add the symbol.
118 You can preselect the entity whose arrow leader is attached to control where the geometric tolerance symbol will be placed. If you select an edge, the leader is placed perpendicular to that edge. If you select a dimension, the leader is attached to that dimension line.
119 On a drawing, you can add a hatch pattern to a model face, or within a sketch entity enclosure.
120 If you change the attachment point of a detail item, the style of the arrowhead changes automatically, depending on the style you specify when attaching to a face, edge, or vertex. Choose Tools/Options/Detailing tab on the menu and use the arrow buttons to specify your selection.
121 You can import reference geometry from a model onto the drawing by selecting the Insert/Model Item command on the menu.
122 To move a component to a subassembly, drag and drop it into the subassembly in the FeatureManager design tree. If you only want to reorder the components below the subassembly, hold down the ALT key when you place the components.
123 You can suppress components from the right mouse button menu in the FeatureManager design tree.
124 You can create a blank drawing template that loads without prompting the user for a sheet format. To generate a template, open a standard SolidWorks drawing template with a sheet format. Then delete all entities on the sheet and save the file as a new template. Sheets are now effectively blank and the user is not prompted to use a new sheet format when a template is used.
125 You can move all entities (notes, sketch entities, drawing views, etc.) on a drawing sheet. Select the "Move" command from the right mouse button menu in the top-level drawing icon of the FeatureManager design tree.
126 You can edit a polygon that has been drawn by selecting "Edit Polygon?quot; from the right mouse button menu of one of the polygon's sides.
127 You can control the color of parts using configurations in the design tree.
128 You can turn the performance email option on or off in Tools/Options/System Options/General.
129 SolidWorks system options apply to all SolidWorks documents, and SolidWorks document properties are set on the document template level.
130 To improve performance, SolidWorks stores geometric relations in inactive memory. When the pointer is moved over the appropriate edge or entity, the pointer turns orange to "wake up" the appropriate geometry.
131 You can move individual components to their own layers in the drawing. Right-click a component in a drawing view, select Component Linetype, and choose a layer from the menu.
132 If you have a drawing view showing an infinite number of different models (individual files), you can choose which model to extract custom attributes from. Right-click the drawing sheet and select Properties. At the bottom of the Drawing Settings dialog box the ?quot;Use the Custom Properties in the displayed model" menu. On each drawing you can select a model from which these custom properties can be extracted.
133 SolidWorks Explorer can be launched as a stand-alone application or from within SolidWorks. Select Tools/SolidWorks Explorer to enable from within SolidWorks or select SolidWorks Explorer from the Start menu to enable independently.
136 After you download a new SolidWorks Service Pack, you can see what changes have been made to SolidWorks. Choose Help/SolidWorks Release Notes.
137 You can control the relative distance of the model displayed in perspective view. To display the model in perspective, choose View/Modify/Perspective. Choose a viewing position greater or less than 1. For realistic perspective, values less than 1 produce the desired effect.
138 You can add Tiff files as pictures to the graphics area of SolidWorks models. Click Insert/Picture and browse to the directory containing the desired Tiff file.
139 Pictures inserted into the background of a SolidWorks model can be removed or replaced. Click View/Modify/Picture.
140 You can import surfaces directly into SolidWorks models. Supported file formats are Parasolid, IGES, ACIS, VRML, and VDAFS.
141 You can view the curvature of a face in SolidWorks from the right mouse button menu. "Cool" colors (black, purple, blue) indicate low curvature (flat). "Hot" colors (red, green) indicate high curvature.
142 You can set values that define curvature in SolidWorks files. In Tools/Options/File Properties/Colors click on the Curvature button. needle direction.