When in a feature property manager, like “Extrude” a right click will give us access to the end conditions We can also extend entities while being in the trim command, just drag an endpoint and it will extend If you accidentally trim entities you don’t want, you can restore them by going back through the black (or red, depending on your settings) box Power trim is a great time saver – here we just need to drag our cursor through what we want to trim, and it trims back to the nearest boundary If you hold down ALT it will divide this increment by 10, or hold down CTRL to multiply by 10 In the dimension box, you can use the MMB to increase the value by the arrow key increments. If you press ctrl, it will bring it back allowing you to add additional ones When adding sketch relations, we may want an additional relation based on the entities selected, but the flyout box disappears when you select your first relation. Holding ctrl and dragging then releasing ctrl will move an entity, and holding ctrl and dragging (keeping hold of ctrl) will perform a copy commandĪ left to right box select will select everything in the box, but a right to left select will select anything the box crosses. If you drag the end point of a broken circle or arc, you can create a circle again from the arc we dragged At the top, will add, at the bottom will remove Selecting a sketch and dragging the arrow, will either add geometry or remove it, depending on where I select. You can use simple maths functions in here too 10/2 = 5mmĭouble click the screen to exit the sketch Suffix dimensions with unit system to convert on the fly (so if your template is in “mm”, type “in” after your dimension and it will convert it from inches to millimetres.īut let’s say I want to continue in mm, I can use the unit switcher to change my unit system from the bottom right hand corner of SOLIDWORKSĭouble clicking on a non-active sketch will take me back into edit sketch mode. We can turn a selection into construction lines by clicking the box on the right, but we can also use the shortcut ALT + C to change entities that are selected.
If you select a sketch tool, you can change the type by clicking A (so if you pick a center rectangle, you can change the style by clicking A) We can access previews views – using the previous view button on the heads up toolbar. We all know that you can draw a line using the click – click – double click method, but if you just want a single line, try pressing the left mouse button and dragging and then release.
We can access any saved views by hitting the space bar – and we can save these to SOLIDWORKS so they are available in any model we open If we hold down ALT + MMB we can roll/ rotate normal to the screen If we double click the middle mouse button (MMB) on a face we can rotate about that faceĬTRL + 1 will give us a front view, and you can follow those shortcuts in sequence to get all the standard views Select X (with ALT then CTRL) rotates in reverse at the arrow increments Select X (with ALT) rotates by the arrow increments Select X (with SHIFT + CTRL) rotates around the axis in reverse Select X (with SHIFT) rotates around the axis 90 If we select the axis pointing towards us, it gives us the reverse normal to If you click this axis’ with a combination of the following key strokes, you can navigate your model in a number of different ways There is a triad (showing X Y and Z) in the bottom left hand corner of SOLIDWORKS. We’ll start out with some simple tips to help you navigate around your model. While there you can take a look at some of the other useful videos from the day – or our videos on why 2015 is such a great release! If you want to go directly to our 2015 videos click here. If you find it easier, I recorded the session with examples, which you can find here. What follows is the written break down of all the tips I went through on the day, some of them you may know, some of them you may not. We have also done a number of this type of sessions over the years, and it’s always nice if you can try not to cover any old ground. This often causes us a few issues, as things that we use on a daily basis, we don’t necessarily class as a tip or a trick. This year I was tasked with doing a “Tips & Tricks” session, which is normally very well attended. At Innova Systems we always try and add a little more value to the day by doing some breakout sessions on a number of different subjects. Every year all resellers have a customer launch event where we showcase the new version of SOLIDWORKS.