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

1. You can control the component color in Hidden Lines Removed View in an assembly with the parts or the assembly. Select View, Display, and select or clear ‘Use component color in HLR/HLV.’ A rebuild is required for the display to update.

2. Cosmetic threads are able to follow tapered holes as well as simple thru holes.

3. You can use the convert entity sketch tool in a 3D sketch.

4. When creating a curve through free points, you can use a simple text file with x,y,z coordinate separated by commas.

5. You can hide/show surfaces and solid bodies in a SolidWorks model from the FeatureManager design tree or shortcut menus in the graphics area. Since the models are invisible when hidden, it is often easier to use View, Hide/Show Bodies to make the surface or solid bodies visible again.

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

1. You can step through the creation sequence of a part by clicking the Rollback bar in the FeatureManager design tree, then pressing the up and down arrow keys. To enable this function, select Tools, System Options, FeatureManager, and click Arrow Key Navigation.

2. You can change the orientation of all standard views for a part or assembly. In the View Orientation dialog box, click the name of the standard view that you want assigned to the current orientation, then click Update. The standard views are updated to reflect the new orientation.

3. You can see simple measurements of selected entities in the Status Bar at the bottom of the screen. For more complex measurements, use the Measure command.

4. You can change the angle increment used when rotating a model with the arrow keys. Click Tools, Options, System Options, View, and specify the Arrow Keys value under View Rotation.

5. You can use mathematical and trigonometric operations, such as *,/,+,-, or sin(45deg) when entering a dimension value. You can also use parentheses to define the order of operations.

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

1. You can automatically save Backup and Auto-recovery information after a specified time interval. Click Tools, Options, Systems Options, Backup/Recover to enable this option, and to specify the interval.

2. You can dimension the true length of an arc by selecting the arc and its two endpoints. The dimension value is display with an arc above it.

3. To zoom to selected entities, choose Zoom To Selection on the context Toolbar.

4. In drawings, you can control the font, color, and thickness of selected model edges from the Context Toolbar.

5. Broken views in drawings can have multiple breaks.

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

1. The Home key will bring you to the top of the feature tree and the end key will bring you to the bottom of the feature tree.

2. Pressing the A key will toggle between a line and an arc in a sketch.

3. Use Ctrl+drag to copy components, features, entities, and annotations

4. Press the M key to bring up the measure tool.

5. Use SolidWorks Copy Settings Wizard to save your user interface customization settings. From Windows start menu, go Programs, SolidWorks, Tools, Copy Setting Wizard.

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

1. You can assign colors to selected feature types. Click Tools, Options, Document Properties, Model Display. Then select a feature type from the list, and click Edit to choose a color.

2. You can always press Esc while editing a sketch to get the Select cursor back.

3. In a fully defined sketch, all the entities are black. In an under defined sketch, entities that are not fully defined are blue.

4. The first component of an assembly is fixed by default. To move it, right-click the component, and select Float.

5. Section line can include arcs. When you can create the section view, the view unfolds by rotating the appropriate view segments into the plane of projection.

Have a great day!

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

1. You can add comments to Equations in SolidWorks. When you are in the Edit Equations dialog box, use the notation ‘(single quote) at the beginning of a comment. Anything after that quote will be ignored by Equations evaluation.

2. If you have the option ‘Single command per pick’ selected, you can still use the command multiple times by double-clicking a tool.

3. You can add configuration specific custom properties to a design table with the column heading $prp@custom property name.

4. You can use hide/show bodies to control file size. When the body is hidden, the display information is minimal, resulting in a smaller file size.

5. You can dynamically rotate about planar faces, linear edges, and vertices by selecting the entity with the Rotate View tool active.

Have a great day!