Solidworks tips and tricks

[akoscielski3]

Originally Posted by Peck

Hey all you Solidworks guys out there, I'm looking to learn every tip and trick I can about the software and how to be faster (and I'm sure others would have no problem with learning to be faster too.) any tips and tricks you can throw down for me to practice would be great.

for starters, here are a few I already know:

• in assemblies, you can mate parts by holding alt while dragging a face or edge to touch the face or edge you want to mate it to.
• sketches can be used multiple times
• sketches can be moved from one face to another by using the "sketch plane" option when you right click on the sketch in the feature manager.

Wow. You just taught me a few things thanks

The best way you cna possibly get faster is by designing more things. Last year i spent countless hours designing chassis, and for 2012 season i designed the whole robot by myself in 2 weeks. Which to me is really fast. The only thing i know about that is new to some people is when in a sketch, holding down Shift and selecting two lines you can change what position they are relative to eachother (eg Parallel, Coincident)