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Utilizing SolidWorks Shortcuts

Clem See Shounco Design Studios. Utilizing SolidWorks Shortcuts. Image courtesy of Nathan Bergman and Christophe Demuynck. Workflow – The basics. Command Manager. Heads up toolbar. Context Toolbars. Workflow – The fun stuff. Shortcut Toolbar – “S” key

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Utilizing SolidWorks Shortcuts

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  1. Clem See Shounco Design Studios Utilizing SolidWorks Shortcuts Image courtesy of Nathan Bergman and Christophe Demuynck

  2. Workflow – The basics Command Manager Heads up toolbar Context Toolbars

  3. Workflow – The fun stuff Shortcut Toolbar – “S” key Customizable in Sketch Mode, Part Mode, Assembly Mode, and Drawing Mode Mouse Gestures Power Tip: Use your flyout buttons Sketch Mode Part Mode Assembly Mode Drawing Mode

  4. Workflow - Customizing Mouse Gestures To Get the most out of this switch to 8 gestures Click on your column headers to organize Use “Search for” to find Those sneaky commands Organize for muscle memory

  5. Workflow – Capture my customization Copy Settings Wizard In the current version you are able to pick and choose what you save and restore. ****Note**** what is being copied and replaced are registry keys

  6. Shortcut - Misc • Keyboard Shortcuts • API • Macros • Record your own, or see if you can get lucky, google “SolidWorks Macros” and see what have been made • http://www.lennyworks.com/solidworks/default.asp?ID=20 • http://www.3dcontentcentral.com/Macros.aspx

  7. Hardware: Me Want! The SpaceExplorer. You couldn’t pry this thing from my cold wooden hand.

  8. Hardware customization There are many ways hardware can help a designers speed and efficiency Esc Ctrl Alt Shift FTW View Buttons 2D Button! Multi button mice can also Be customized to include Ctrl, Esc, or any Keyboard Shortcut. Power Tip: Double Click Mouse wheel zooms to fit.

  9. Hardware Suggestions • Dual Monitors • Better Graphics Cards (or maybe just an up to date driver) • http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/videocardtesting.html • Power Tip: SolidWorks Rx can tell you if you need a new driver • More Ram • Not Hardware but still bears mentioning: • Win 7 x64

  10. Templates

  11. Templates • The Short Story about templates is that you can have them for parts, assemblies, and drawings • They contain everything that you customize in the Feature Manager Tree (hide/show planes), View Menu (view planes), and the Document Properties Tab of the Options Power Tip: hide/show planes In the FMT is different than Turning View Planes on and off in the view menu

  12. Formats Formats are ONLY the borders (size information), title blocks, and the information contained in the title blocks. A drawing template itself is just a blank sheet Pure Drawing Template Drawing Template with a Sheet Format Power Tip: If you choose to start a new drawing and get the sheet format choice displayed to the left, then you have Pure Drawing Formats. Deleting the Sheet format shown above and saving As a Drawing Template will create a Pure Drawing Template.

  13. Templates and Formats continued Once you have a Pure Drawing Template, your New Drawing list can be made much smaller. Any changes to a drawing template that needs to be made, such as balloon size can be done in one shot by opening the Template, cancelling the Size/Format choice, making the change and saving over the original template. Changes to the Format (border, title blocks) must be done to each individually however. To save the Template, go into Save As. To save the Format, choose Save Sheet Format from here

  14. Xpert Tools DraftXpert: One stop shop for adding, removing or changing Drafts FilletXpert: One stop shop for adding, removing or changing Fillets FeatureXpert: SolidWorks solves errors in APPLIED FEATURES SketchXpert: SolidWorks shows you how to repair over defined sketches Click Here to start SketchXpert

  15. Sketch Shortcuts • Tools -> Dimensions -> Fully Defined Sketch (or right click on active sketch) • If for whatever reason (spline, investigateing under defined situation etc.) you want to have SolidWorks fully define a sketch for you. • Tools -> Sketch -> Check Sketch For Feature • Have SolidWorks show you what is causing a problem in a particular sketch for a feature. • Line to Tangent Arc transition (hover over last point, or press A) • Design Library • Blocks • Copy/Paste • Shared Sketch • To Reuse Sketch entities from previous sketch, the previous (absorbed sketch) just needs to be visible, ie “shown” • Options -> System Options -> Enable on screen numeric input on entity creation

  16. Part Shortcuts • Patterns • Copy/Paste • Statistics: SolidWorks displays the rebuild time of each feature, giving you valuable information to find the feature that is making your part take so long to rebuild • CONFIGURE FEATURE: Right click on feature to be configured Power Tip: the right click CONFIGURE XXX operation is a much streamlined tool for creating new configurations, and easily controlling features (supression state) dimensions, and instance numbers. It can fully replace the excel based configuration table in many cases.

  17. Assembly Shortcuts • Splitting the FMT to view the Assembly Tree and component mates, or Configuration Manager at the same time • Alt Drag on a Face/Edge/Vertices for instant mating without entering Mate tool • Control Drag from FMT, or Graphic Window to make a copy of a component/sub assembly • Copy With Mates • Mirror Components • FEATURE DRIVEN PATTERNS • Assembly Visualization

  18. Detail Drawing Shortcuts • Custom Property Tab Builder: Easy to use sharable form for standardizing custom properties, complete with dropdown list, radio buttons, configurable categories • Define Title Block: Missed a field in the title block? Set this up in your Sheet Format, and edit the missing field in the title block. Propagates back to the Custom Properties/Property Tab builder fields.

  19. Search Shortcuts • Feature Manager Tree Filter search, filters named features, absorbed sketches, tags. • SolidWorks Explorer: Where used is quite slow, but can be a lifesaver • PDMWorks Workgroup: Many have it already just not set up, other than providing PDM capabilities, the search capability and the where used records are huge time savers. I could even make a case that a single engineer could benefit greatly from this tool. • Windows/Google Desktop Searches: Instant results based on file name

  20. Suggested Viewing • SolidWorks Time Savers Series on SolidWorks YouTube Channel: • http://www.youtube.com/solidworks • View Manipulation • Design Library • Mate References • Templates • Task Scheduler • Macros • Feature-Driven Patterns • Assembly Techniques • Interface Customization • And much more

  21. Thank You

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