You can alter the sets and have a separate one for Sketch, Part, Assembly and Drawing. From there use “Customise” to make ones for yourself. The S key gives access a customizable toolbar of features.
If you are yet to try using shortcuts I would recommend these options. Mouse gestures are another often-overlooked feature in SOLIDWORKS. It can also make presentations look smooth and effective. These are great for selecting tricky and otherwise hidden geometry.Ĭombining these shortcuts together will increase the speed in which you can model and navigate the software. (V)ertices and (E)dge filters are easy to remember, leaving (X) for Faces. However, when used correctly these are great tools for selecting trick geometry. Most users first encounter with these shortcuts are accidental, the mouse isn’t selecting what you want and there is a new icon next to the cursor. These three commands are great when using Solidworks as a presentation tool and used in conjunction with the previous shortcut can make navigating through assemblies very clear.
F10 toggles the control manager and F11 makes Solidworks go full screen. F9 controls the design tree/feature manager. These three have been grouped because they all do similar functions, they are all Hide/Show UI. Then to get the component back, hover over the component and press Shift+Tab. Using the Tab key when hovering over a component will hide it. When working on large assemblies or multibody parts it can be frustrating to use the various mouse ways to hide and show a component. This makes it extremely quick to go straight from sketch to feature. My personal favourite is to add commands to Sketch which can be activated without having to exit the sketch, such as Rib and Extrude. The S key gives access a customizable toolbar of features. It is first check I perform when I faced with rebuild errors. Often a Ctrl+Q can fix some issues which are persist through the standard rebuild. This Forced Rebuild will also rebuild any views on a drawing which have sketch entities or require rebuilding. From there, select the Mouse Gestures tab, which is shown.
When working on a part, forced rebuild will rebuild every feature in the Feature Tree, this is different to a standard rebuild (Ctrl+B) which will only rebuild changed features. To access your Mouse Gestures, first, go to the Tools tab of the command ribbon and select Customize. To activate mouse gestures, simply hold the right mouse button and drag the cursor in the direction of the desired command. You also learn what to do and what not to do while you practice. Each step of the way you learn while creating real world solid models. It gives you a strong foundation of skills while it shows you the details of each command.
Similar to shortcut bars, mouse gestures can be customized by dragging and dropping commands onto the context-sensitive wheels. SOLIDWORKS Professional Modeling is a progressive video based training course that focuses on best practice strategies. I use base sketches all the time and don’t want them to get absorbed into a feature, so this makes it very quick to copy them into new sketches.Below is a short list of my top 5 favourite and most used keyboard shortcuts, they are standard shortcuts that can be used by anybody. Additionally, mouse gestures are another great way to optimize workflow. This video covers the steps to customize SOLIDWORKS Keyboard Shortcuts, Shortcut Bars, and Mouse Gestures so you can spend less time looking for tools and more time designing. Really helpful when you’re rotating around too much and want to quickly get back to where you were.Īlt-C: I think this is the default, but will toggle a sketch entity between solid and construction. Customizing your SOLIDWORKS productivity tools is the first step in becoming as efficient as possible.
It works best when you understand what the commands are before you use them. Also, it is randomly more difficult for my mouse to actually dynamically highlight edges when I‘m in any view but “lines only,” so switching to lines is helpful for that. Mouse gestures arean interface method that you can customize to do anything. Depending on the application, either the left or. It can really help when I want to quickly see something without lines to view the surface smoothness. Commanding the computer by moving the mouse in different directions such as directly up, down or sideways.
W / Alt-W / Shift-W: I use these to cycle between lines (no shading), lines plus shading, and shading without lines. I am with u/doc_shades on showing / hiding planes with a shortcut. Will have to try the M5 Enter! Great thread idea by the way.