solid works ui tips and tricks
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SolidWorks User Interface Tips
TriMech SolutionsMichael Jolley – Applications Engineer
Getting it done, smoother.
UI History
2013 Interface Elements
Toolbars
Shortcut Toolbar
Motion Manager
Heads-Up View Toolbar
Task Pane
In-Context Toolbars
Recent Commands List
MacrosKeyboard Shortcuts
Menu Bar
Command Manager
Search Bars
Tear-away Toolbars
Right-Click Menus
Xpert Selection SetsIcons
Status Bar
Units Selector
Errors/Warnings
Mouse GesturesFreeze Bar
Rollback Bar
Instant 3D
Why Bother?
• Make it yours
• “I wanna go fast!”
• Quit hunting around
• Impress your
coworkers
What Can We Change?
• System Options
• Right Click Menu
• Mouse Gestures
• Command Manager
• Et al
System Options
• Search Options
• Enable Freeze Bar
• Customer Experience Improvement Program
• Tangent Edge Display – models vs. drawings
• Automatically Hide Components on View Creation
• Use Specified Colors When Editing…
• Ghost Image on Drag
• No Preview During Open
• Large Assembly Mode Trigger
• Don’t Prompt to Save Read-Only…
System Options
• Default Templates
• Intentionally Map File Locations
• FM Arrow Key Navigation
• Auto-Recover
• Toolbox in Common Location
• File Explorer Samples with Shortcuts
• Search – Disable it if you don’t use it
• Check if Read-Only Items Have Changed
• Show Errors Every Rebuild
Right Click Menu
• Customize Menuo Open Drawing
o Replace Components
• Context Toolbar
• Rotate About Scene Floor
• Live Section View
• Isolate
Mouse Gestures
• Seriously, set these up
Command Manager
• Dockingo Drag or double click
• Change the look
• Disable and Change The Look
Other Stuff
• Pin the menu
• Floating Toolbar
• S key
• Command Search
• View Selector
More Other Stuff
• Select Other
• Assemblies – Tab/Shift Tab to hide/show
• Window Select
TriMech Favorites
6. Automatically hide components on view creation.
7. Enable selection through transparency
8. Selection of hidden edges
9. Default templates
10. Don’t prompt to save read-only referenced documents (discard changes)
TriMech Favorites
1. Use software OpenGL. Seriously!
2. Use Large Assembly Mode
3. Save auto-recover information every
X minutes.
4. Messages/Errors/Warnings
5. File, Locations (ALL of them)
SolidWorks User Interface Tips
TriMech SolutionsMichael Jolley – Applications Engineer
Getting it done, smoother.