Hidden Solidworks commands
Hidden Solidworks commands
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Does anyone no where I can find a document with hidden SW commands. There are some key strokes and commands in SW that are not always listed in the help, or if they are they are overlooked very easy.
For example a user call me today asking how can he get normal to but from the opposite direction... solution select "Normal to" again and it flips the direction.
This is just one of those basic hidden commands, and I don't know if someone has made a document of these commands or not already.
Thanks in Advance,
For example a user call me today asking how can he get normal to but from the opposite direction... solution select "Normal to" again and it flips the direction.
This is just one of those basic hidden commands, and I don't know if someone has made a document of these commands or not already.
Thanks in Advance,
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I doubt there's a master/comprehensive list, as what is hidden to one person is often basic functionality to another. It depends on what you need/expect out of the software on a daily basis. Many users would consider something hidden if they didn't already know about it - I've had users ask me how to do something when the command to do it was already on their main toolbars.
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Thanks,
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- Enable "Only Show Commands with Shortcuts Assigned"
- Then "Print List..."
If you are a button clicker, you can find the hidden commands by going through the different Categories of:
Tools->Customize->Commands(Tab)
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Thanks for your suggestion.
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https://forum.solidworks.com/message/124334#124334
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CTRL+Sel Face to point upwards
Hit CTRL+8 or Normal To
You can take all the SolidWorks classes if you don't mind spending a lot of money and pick through the pages to find the Commands which are hidden in the books like
Tab+Select to pick Work Part and
Shift+Select to pick transparent faces when Select through transparency is activated
Hold Alt and click the Triad Arrows to rotate by RH Rule.
This uses the Snap Value for View Rotation
CTRL generally reverses the direction for example Orthographic View Rotation with Shift+Arrow.
Michael
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CBL - I didn't see a Document in that forum message... and i only skimmed through it, I didn't read each post. I will look at this later when I have more time.
Thanks guys,
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Deepak Gupta
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MathCAD 14.0
Boxer's Blog
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For keystrokes, those are viewable in the Customize window under keystrokes. The list can be saved out to an excel file. The list will vary slighty depending on which document type is loaded, so you may wish save it off three times, one time with each of the document times open (drawing, assemby, and part).
Phil Sluder is going to do a "What's Old with SolidWorks" presentation at SolidWorks World 2011 that will cover functions that old timers might miss because we are old timers. :)
However, that doesn't cover everything. For example, the method to create a point location (called Virtual Sharp in SolidWorks) is nearly cryptic. First, you have to know they are called "virtual sharps". Second, the online help doesn't even tell you that they can be created in drawings! It only talks about sketches and 3D sketches. Thrid, the workflow to make a "virtual sharp" element is very counter-intuitive. There's still many examples of this kind of shortfall in the documentation.
Matt Lorono
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You have peaked my curiosity in regards to the what we "Old Timers" are going to miss.
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Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
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Use the alt key to move a drawing view without having to be super close zoom on the view.
How about shift + arrow keys to rotate 90° at a time.
Are these new for your list or just useful?
Christopher Zona - Product Designer
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Cheers,
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htt
Also...
http://hel
Chris
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8 Dec 10 12:39
Using the alt key when dragging a component in assembly to reorder it will prevent it from falling into a subassembly, if you are placing it near that subassembly.
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That is awesome! I've missed out on that one for far too long. I usually end up moving parts under other parts and then moving but this rocks! Good post!
Tony Greising-Murschel
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alt 0216 large dia symbol
alt 0248 small dia symbol
Deepak Gupta
SW 2009 SP4.1 & 2007 SP5.0
MathCAD 14.0
Boxer's Blog
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• As mjcole said, CTRL+8 will go 'Normal To', hit it again and it'll flip it 180°.
• ALT dragging a part in an assembly will 'auto-create' mates depending on what you grab, and where.
• Hit the 'F' key for zoom to fit (default SW setting)
• Surprisingly, many do not know the power of the 'S' key.
• ALT+0149= •
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Deepak Gupta
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When using the mouse wheel to modify a dimension
Holding the control key increases the spin box increment by 10
Holding the alt key decreases the spin box increment by 10
Jim Self
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Holding the control key increases/decreases the spin box increment by 100
Holding the alt key increases/decreases the spin box increment by 1
Deepak Gupta
SW 2009 SP4.1 & 2007 SP5.0
MathCAD 14.0
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I have my spin box increment set to 0.1mm
The control key gives an increment of 1.0mm
The alt Key gives an increment of 0.01mm
I fined this very useful for tweaking dimensions and a lot quicker than typing in small changes
Jim Self
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Shift + C to collapse a Feature manager tree.
Deepak Gupta
SW 2009 SP4.1 & 2007 SP5.0
MathCAD 14.0
Boxer's Blog
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I am not seeing hte benefit here, what I am doing wrong?
I understand if I select a face and click Ctrl+8 it goes Normal To, if i click Ctrl+8 again it reverses it just like Normal to does, but the other 2 I am not following.
Ctopher - How do you use these commands you listed? Are you still using the 2D Emulator? My SW 2010 add-in no longer lists it.
Thanks Everyone I have some good information here... any one have anything else they want to add? I will post this when I have my completed copy.
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F6 Clears active filters
F9 Hides/shows the feature manager
F10 Hides/shows command manager
F11 Full Screen
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Enjoy!
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SOME USEFUL TIPS WHILE WORKING WITH SOLIDWORKS
Deepak Gupta
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Boxer's Blog
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Ctrl + P | Page Setup | Check 'High Quality' | OK
Paste external graphics in at high res (importing JPEG's or PDF's give rotten resolution) I've used this to paste customer artwork onto drawings:
Open in bitmap editor (paint.net is free, works well) trim to suit, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, toggle to SW, Ctrl+V to paste onto drawing. Once in the drawing, RMB (over bitmap) | Properties | specify scale to suit.
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A star for you
Patrick
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Deepak Gupta
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DriveWorks Pro 7 SP5
Boxer's SolidWorks™ Blog
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would you mind if I post the completed hidden command function file on sw.fcsuper.com once it is done?
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Cheers,
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If I did that, then and someone give a suggestion, it would have to be reviewed to qualify, IMO.
Regards,
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I have many bookmarks to several sites for Tips and Tricks as well as accumulating my copy and paste collection of them. I'll bet others have done the same. It would be nice to put our heads together and collaborate on a nicely arranged document that is a superset of this information. Along that note, maybe it can include a tab for hyperlinks.
- - -Updraft
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Sorry, just read your question to me.
See here for Command Line info.
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Chris
SolidWorks 10 SP4.0
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Updraft,
Uncommon versus hidden are 2 different things for me. Uncommon to me is more of a Tips and Tricks link versus being added to Hidden Commands Document. Hidden Commands are not listed anywhere and unless you accidently click it or someone tells you, you have no clue it exists.
I have the Hidden Commands uploaded to Google Docs, but I have not released to everyone yet. I still have to add images to it. Since it did not copy everything from my Word doc to Google Doc. I still don't want uncommon commands added, only hidden commands... kind of defeats the purpose of hidden commands title don't you think?
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DriveWorks Pro 7 SP5
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Zoom out/In: z/Z and Shift + z/Z
Deepak Gupta
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Boxer's SolidWorks™ Blog
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For naming features, parts, assemblies, design table configs, etc where you would normall have a slash, like 3/4, you can use the character called "Fractioni Slash".
To find it open up your Character Map (start->run->"charmap" <enter>). Check "Advanced View". Then at the bottom search for "slash" and choose the "Fraction Slash".
This allows you have architectural-type callouts in names.
Tony Greising-Murschel, CSWP
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Nvidia Quadro FX 580
SolidWorks 2011 SP1.0
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Maybe a little late to the party, but here's one I just thought of. I checked, and I didn't find it in the Help file. Of course you know that when you RMB on a face and choose "Select Other", that face disappears and the box comes up with everything else that's under your selection. What many people don't know (myself included until someone told me) is that while the Select Other command is active you can continue to RMB on faces and make them disappear. No limit to the number of faces you can remove in this manner. You can then select anything that is visible - even if that thing was not in the popup list of "select other" entities.
-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)
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It is read-only:
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If the link doesn't work let me know
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Could you update Virtual Sharps to include the alternate terms found in ASME Y14.5-2009 and elsewhere.
"also known by the term Point Location or various other names"
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Thanks
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I'll also likely do a report about this document on my blog at some point (after SolidWorks World?). I've already done articles about some of these items in the past, and I may pick out other items from time to time to do individual expanded articles about them.
Matt Lorono
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If I use something from someone else and I know the source, I give that user the credit that they deserve, I expect the same in return.
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While in sketch mode (or anytime), select "F3" to turn on snap mode.
Chris
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Strictly speaking... no. These are Scandinavian characters and you can see the difference in the stroke slope.
There is only one dia symbol, unicode 8960 but the corresponding alt code is rarely supported anywhere.
Piddling? Perhaps. But you'd be surprised what complaints you have to deal with when documenting designs for gov't lab that doesn't feel like paying up.
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To expand the Feature Manager tree, select the top of the tree (where the file name is there) and hit the asterisk key * (works with keyboard asterisk key only not with shift + 8)
Deepak Gupta
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here's the REAL hidden stuff..the only one I know. You can start SW with /d option and and have some extra tools to work with HoleWizard geometry. Guide:
http://www.markkulehtola.net/SWHW-own_geometry.pdf
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Markku
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Enjoy,
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I can make mine and use them but I can't open the one I made or the existing one... LOL
Deepak Gupta
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Found it years ago from the (surprise!) internet
fcsuper:"This doesn't appear to work well with SolidWorks 2010. When is the last time you tried this out."
Propably with 2007, this might be ancient stuff that has not been actively updated by SW and that's why you are getting errors...don't really know.
br
Markku
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For an example, see ht
This is also currently being discussed at https://forum.solidworks.com/message/210173#210173
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Here are some really hidden ones:
from the solidworks program files directory
sldworks /b "Starts SW. Window is shrunk to about 640x480 size. "
sldworks /d "Starts SW in Developer Mode"
sldworks /m path to macro "Opens SW and runs macro"
sldworks /p "Prints whatever document is given as an argument"
I would say that /b would be useful if, somehow, SW had a window problem where you couldn't get at the edges like when running in a default 640x480 window.
/m can be dangerous or very useful to CAD Admin types. I gave it an argument to a macro that ran and had no way to shut it down. For that SW must be killed (Alt-F4)
And then for some more, that are really windows functionality that almost nobody uses:
On the keypad try + - * when in a fair sized feature tree. They expand and shrink the tree in a context sensitive way.
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Deepak Gupta
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Boxer's SolidWorks™ Blog
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I think this was a feature added on 2009 and above - I don't think it worked in 2008 and below...someone can confirm?
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I'll have to try this again next year. Diego
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I will try and review some of hte above suggestions when I have more time to review them and I will update everyone on the changes.
Best Regards,
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I'm easily pleased...
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Many people love it. I don't. I cannot get used to it.
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I'm hoping our company will spring for some new licenses now that the economy is better...for us at least. We've had nothing but problems with 2009...wish we would have stayed with 2008. hopefully the newer versions are more stable.
(Sorry for the thread jack)
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How about the solutions posted by Wayne and Glen at https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/48575?tstart=0