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30 Tips in 30 Minutes Cheat Sheet 2017

The document provides tips for improving productivity in SOLIDWORKS. Some key tips include customizing toolbars and using shortcuts like the S-key toolbar, mouse gestures, and command search. For views, the triad and middle mouse button can be used to manipulate models. Sketching tips involve dimensioning arcs from the outside and using the 'a' key to transition to arcs. In assemblies, use smart mates by holding ALT and rotate parts in place by right-clicking. Drawings tips include disabling sketch relations and using SHIFT or CTRL to move or copy dimensions between views.

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30 Tips in 30 Minutes Cheat Sheet 2017

The document provides tips for improving productivity in SOLIDWORKS. Some key tips include customizing toolbars and using shortcuts like the S-key toolbar, mouse gestures, and command search. For views, the triad and middle mouse button can be used to manipulate models. Sketching tips involve dimensioning arcs from the outside and using the 'a' key to transition to arcs. In assemblies, use smart mates by holding ALT and rotate parts in place by right-clicking. Drawings tips include disabling sketch relations and using SHIFT or CTRL to move or copy dimensions between views.

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SOLIDWORKS Tips & Tricks

General Productivity Tips View, Rotation, and Orientation Tips


• Customize Your Toolbars - Go to Tools  Customize, • Arrow keys can be used to your model on screen:
and drag/drop the commands you’d like to a location on • Hold SHIFT + arrow keys to rotate in 90 degree
your toolbars increments
• Mouse Gestures – Invoke commands from a • Hold ALT + arrow key to rotate in-plane
right-click and drag. Navigating to tools  • Triad in the bottom left corner can be used to
Customize, and selecting the ‘Mouse Gestures’ orient your model on screen:
tab to customize the selectable commands on the • Select an axis to view normal to it.
wheel • Hold SHIFT + Click an axis to rotate 90 degrees
• S-Key Shortcut - Use the ‘s’ key to invoke a shortcut around that axis
toolbar. It can be customized from Tools  Customize • Hold ALT + Click an axis to rotate in 15 degree
• Command Search – In the top right. increments
Search menus for any command, and launch using enter • Middle Mouse button shortcuts
• 3D Mouse – Using a separate 3D mouse makes • Zoom to Fit – Double-click middle button
manipulating the model much easier • Roll about an edge – middle mouse click + drag on a
Sketches & Features model edge to rotate about it
• Rotate about Scene Floor – right mouse
• On-screen numeric Input – From system options  click in space, and select to enable
sketch. Enter dimensions as you sketch • Undo Last View Change - CTRL + SHIFT + Z
• Dimension to OUTSIDE of arc – Hold the SHIFT key • View Orientations – Use the space bar
while clicking a circle or arc to quickly dimension to the to create and save custom view orientations
outside, rather than center point
• Box/Lasso Select – Blue box (down and right) creates a Assembly Tips
standard selection box. Green box (down and left) is a • Smart Mates – Hold ALT + drag an entity to quickly
crossing window select mate it
• Auto-transition to Arc – Use the ‘a’ key to quickly switch • Rotate a part in place by right - clicking and dragging
from line to a tangent arc command • Select through transparent parts
• Virtual Sharp Creation – Multi-select two sketch • Enabled from system options, Display/Selection
entities, and pick the ‘point’ command on the sketch • If you want to select the transparent part, hold SHIFT
toolbar to create a virtual sharp at their intersection
• Quickly hide parts – Hold the TAB key, and hover over
• Contour Selection – Utilize the contour selection the part you’d like to hide. Show the part by using SHIFT
window to select just one piece of a sketch to extrude, + TAB and hovering over where the hidden part would
cut, etc. be
• Offset Plane – hold CTRL + drag a corner point of a • Shortcuts for Advanced Mates:
plane to quickly create an offset plane
• Multiple-select 3 faces, then hit the Mate command
• RMB to accept commands – Many commands automatically invokes a Symmetry Mate
can be accepted by simply clicking the right
• Multiple-select 4 faces, then hit the Mate command
mouse button. Watch for the ‘accept’ icon
automatically invokes a Width Mate
Drawings

• Disable Sketch Relations – hold the CTRL key to avoid creating snaps/relations in a drawing
• Break View Alignment on placement of view – Hold CTRL key before clicking to place
• Move/copy dimensions across views
• Use SHIFT + drag a dimension to move to from one view to another
• Use CTRL + drag a dimension to copy it to another view
• Add another leader to note - CTRL + drag on an existing leader to create another leader
• Angle dimension shortcut – Select a line, and an endpoint of that same line. Use the quadrant selections for angle
• Dimension WITHOUT creating virtual sharp – while dimensioning, right-click an entity and select ‘find intersection’.
Select a second entity to dimension to the virtual sharp

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