Solidworks tips and tricks

[akoscielski3]

Originally Posted by Siri

Customize your shortcuts. (Tools-->Customize-->Keyboard and/or Mouse Gestures) Especially when sketching, I barely use the menu anymore. It's amazing how much time is saved when line, center line, circle, rectangle, point, dimension, relation, sketch, trim, zoom to fit, normal to, iso-view, mate, extrude measure, mass properties... are each a single intuitive button away. Especially helpful when I have to CAD without a mouse.*



*Kids, never CAD without a mouse. And when you do, try not to develop a habit.

Do you mean the small icons on the top of you part view? I knew you could chnage them but not to these ones. i just put one in that is "normal view" which makes it a lot easier to look straight onto a view.