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5 SolidWorks Tips that may possible be helpful kick starting your 3D day.

1.You can specify the defalt line font for many types of drawing items. Click Tools, Options, Document Properties, Line Font.

2.A sketch has a minus in front of its name in the FeatureManager desing tree if it is under defined, and a plus sign if it is over defined.

3.If you drag a part into the the FeatureManager design tree of an assembly, the origin of the part is made coincident with the assembly origin, and the planes of the part are aligned with the assembly planes.

4.When lofting between similar profiles, it is often useful to copy the sketches. Select the sketch from the FeatureManager design tree, or select one of the entities and use Ctrl-C to copy it. Then select a plane or planar face and use Ctrl-V to paste the sketch.

5.You can zoom to Fit by pressing the ‘F’ key.

5 SolidWorks Tips that may possible be helpful kick starting your 3D day.

1.When editing a part in an assembly, you can force the other components to become transparent, making it easier to select the part to be edited. Right-click components and select Change Transparency.

2.Sketch relations (suppressed or unsuppressed) can be controlled on a per configuration basis

3.Feature definitions (like end conditions: Blind, up to surface, etc.) can be controlled on a per configuration basis.

4.You can check the degree of curvature in a spline. Right-click the spline and select ‘Show curvature.’ If the degree of curvature is too small or to large for the spline, you can change the display by selecting ‘Modify Curvature Scale’ on the same menu.

5.You can select the faces, edges and vertices that are created by section views created in a SolidWorks part or assembly. You can not open a sketch on the newly created faces.

5 SolidWorks Tips that may possible be helpful kick starting your 3D day.

1.You can use Interference Detection to make sure components in an assembly don’t intersect one another.

2.You can use Hide/Show Items on the Heads-Up View Toolbar to toggle the display of various types of items such as planes, axes and origins.

3.You can move, rotate or scale an entire sketch. Select the sketch and click Modify Sketch (Sketch toolbar) or Tools, Sketch, Modify.

4.You can create a customized drawing template, then save it by clicking File, Save As and specifying a template type for Save as type.

5.You can override dimensions when dragging sketch entities by clicking Tools, Sketch Settings, Override Dims on Drag/Move.

5 SolidWorks Tips that may possible be helpful kick starting your 3D day.

1.You can use the Split Part feature to remove geometry from an imported body. This can be used in the place of trying to create a cut feature, which might alter the model geometry. It can also help simplyfy the model for use with FeatureWorks.

2.If the Ctrl key is held down while creating sketch entities, automatich Inferencing is disabled.

3.You can change a solid body to a surface body by deleting one of the solid’s faces.

4.You can specify a break in a dimension’s withess line if it overlaps another withess line. Select the dimension, and in the Property Manager select ‘Break Dimension Lines.’

5.Using the Reload/Replace tool, you can replace a part with an assembly, or an assembly with a part.

5 SolidWorks Tips that may possible be helpful kick starting your 3D day.


1.You can make a perspective view in a drawing. First, create a named view in the model using the Orientation dialog box, then insert that view in the drawing.

2.Converted edges are fully defined. You can drag the endpoints of these edges, however, to change the end points to under-defined.

3.You can set up a gradient color schemes to appear in the graphics area in Tools, Options, System Options, Colors.

4.Color Display Mode (Line Format toolbar) allows you to toggle between displaying layer and explicit colors assigned to sketch entities and colors representing the status of that entities (defined, over defined etc.)

5.Coordinate values that appear in the Property Manager are measured relative to the sketch’s coordinate system, which can be different from Tools, Measure, values, which measure relative to a selected coordinate system (default is the model origin).

5 SolidWorks Tips that may possible be helpful kick starting your 3D day.

1.You can use the Swept Flange Feature to create bends in different directions for more complex Sheet Metal parts.

2.You can set new sketches to Auto-rotate normal to the sketch plane under Tools, Options, System Options, Sketch.

3.You can right click a drawing view and select Show In Exploded State to easily create an exploded view of an assembly.

4.Changes made to a model with a design table update the design table.

5.Sketch Pictures can be suppressed so they are displayed only when the parent sketches are being edited.

5 SolidWorks Tips that may possible be helpful kick starting your 3D day.

1.You can create a split FeatureManager design tree by grabbing the gray bar at the top of the FeatureManager design tree, and dragging it downward.

2.After you import a file into SolidWorks you can run Import Diagnosis to find any faulty faces or edges. Import Diagnosis is often able to repair these errors, or eliminate them.

3.You can split an arc, circle, ellipse, or spline in a SolidWorks sketch or drawing (sketch entities only). Right-click the entity and select Split Entities.

4.When rotating components with transparent faces, you can improve performance by clearing ‘High quality for dynamic view mode’ in Tools, Options, System Options, Performance.

5.You can have notes linked to drawing views (they will move to maintain their position relative to the drawing view). Double click on a view to focus on it. This keeps the view active, even when the cursor moves over other drawing views.

5 SolidWorks Tips that may possible be helpful kick starting your 3D day.

1. You can use the Sketch Fillet tool to fillet non-intersecting sketch entities. The entities are automatically trimmed or extended when the fillet is added.

2. You can add some types of relations to multiple entities at the same time. For example, you can select three lines, and make them equal in length.

3. To select the midpoint of an edge, right-click the edge and choose Select Midpoint.

4. To copy an exploded view from one assembly configuration to another, drag the ExplView icon the Configuration tab.

5. You can align and space multiple dimensions in a drawing. Select the dimensions, then use the on-screen Dimensions Palette.