Tag Archives: ‘S’ Key

Improve Productivity – Use Shortcut Bars, by Alex Ruiz

By admin | August 17, 2009

“One of my favorite new features in SolidWorks 2008 is the addition of Shortcut Bars. Shortcut bars are customizable floating bars that pop up in the graphic area near your mouse pointer. By default each environment has its own shortcut bar that you can then customize just like another toolbar. With Shortcut Bars in addition [...]

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Using BOMs in SolidWorks 2008, by Alex Ruiz

By admin | July 20, 2009

“Welcome back to a new week filled with SolidWorks tips and tricks. Over the next couple of post we’ll be concentrating on SolidWorks Bill of Materials. SolidWorks 2008 brought some changes on how one uses BOMs in the drawing environment. A lot of the controls for BOMs that were previously available in the PropertyManager are [...]

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Improve Productivity – Use Shortcut Bars, by Alex Ruiz

By admin | July 20, 2009

“One of my favorite new features in SolidWorks 2008 is the addition of Shortcut Bars. Shortcut bars are customizable floating bars that pop up in the graphic area near your mouse pointer. By default each environment has its own shortcut bar that you can then customize just like another toolbar. With Shortcut Bars in addition [...]

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SolidWorks Tips: How to Set up a More Efficient Interface, by Josh Mings

By admin | May 22, 2009

“It is weird… an interface has changed the way I work, and it happened nearly overnight. The difference is most noticeable when I transition back and forth between SolidWorks 2007 and SolidWorks 2009. Have you noticed that? If not, the new interface introduces some changes that may leave you wondering how to use these to [...]

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SolidWorks Tips for the S-Key Shortcut Bar to Increase Performance, by Josh Mings

By admin | May 10, 2009

“The ‘S’ key. A single key on that clicky ol’ keyboard that can give you the POWER to HARNESS… tiny little icons… on a customizable pop-up toolbar. Power? Yes, faster access to commands and less time between them.
Everyone knows it’s easier to get away from going through the menus by setting up keyboard shortcuts. We’ll [...]

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