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Magnifying Glass - Did you guys know about this !?!?!
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Magnifying Glass - Did you guys know about this !?!?!

Magnifying Glass - Did you guys know about this !?!?!

(OP)
Wow, I just found this on accident, and I wanted to post it up to see if anyone else knows about this.  This could be a really handy little feature.

If you press "G" on the keyboard, a little circle popes up where the mouse cursor is, and it magnifies the area that the courser points to.

I just discovered this, and figured I'd share with everyone.

OK, that's it.

RE: Magnifying Glass - Did you guys know about this !?!?!

Yeah, that's one of the features the VARs hyped a year ago, but I have never once used.

Dan

www.eltronresearch.com
Dan's Blog

RE: Magnifying Glass - Did you guys know about this !?!?!

Yes, seen it, but have not had a use for it yet.

Chris
SolidWorks 10 SP4.0
ctopher's home
SolidWorks Legion

RE: Magnifying Glass - Did you guys know about this !?!?!

Was introduced in SW2009.  Neat little feature.

Cheers,

Anna Wood
Core i7 EE965, FirePro V8700, 12 Gb RAM, OCZ Vertex 120 Gb SSD, Dell 3008WFP 30" Monitor
SW2010 SP2.1, Windows 7 x64
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RE: Magnifying Glass - Did you guys know about this !?!?!

If I can get the light just right, I can use it to burn computer bugs.

Chris
SolidWorks 10 SP4.0
ctopher's home
SolidWorks Legion

RE: Magnifying Glass - Did you guys know about this !?!?!

Always check out the What's new, if you skip a version go get the What's new from your VAR and look through it.. its easy to miss new functionality if don't read and review the What's New.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP pc2
Berry Plastics
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RE: Magnifying Glass - Did you guys know about this !?!?!

Pressing "S" allows for shortcuts so you don't have to drag your mouse pointer all over the place, customized shortcut panels make it even better...

Shame the G doesn't have an additional "stop", "freeze" or "lock in place" option so you could do some PW rendering with the magnifier in the right place. But with RealView graphics, shaded and no edges and perspective on, even SW screen can produce a fair Screen Capture...

RE: Magnifying Glass - Did you guys know about this !?!?!

(OP)
Thanks for all the comments.

RE: Magnifying Glass - Did you guys know about this !?!?!

Its a good tool and I use it often.

Have you used live sections.

Deepak Gupta
SW 2009 SP4.1 & 2007 SP5.0
MathCAD 14.0
Boxer's Blog

RE: Magnifying Glass - Did you guys know about this !?!?!

(OP)
It is a nifty little tool.  Although, I got to admit, after finding it, I haven't really found a good use for it.  If I have to get a better view of something, I just zoom in on it.  Maybe I'm just so used to scrolling in when I need to, that it's part of my muscle-memory.  I'll try to use it a little more and see if it increases my productivity.


No, I haven't heard of Live sections.

RE: Magnifying Glass - Did you guys know about this !?!?!

It's ability to zoom through a part is useful for quick on=the-fly tasks (rather than using the section function).

Matt Lorono
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources & SolidWorks Legion

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