I was given a tip today by one of our User Group Leaders, Betty Baker, that I'm ashamed that I didn't know. It was a simple tip that involved the F9 and F10 keys. I was never aware that using the F9 key would toggle on and off the feature manager design tree and F10 would toggle on and all toolbars and of course F11 to make it full screen.
What else am I missing?
Damn cool, I don't need it that much but now that I know...
Steve C
yea this is awesome. I have one drawing that needs to use at least two different property tables I created. Then, another one has been saved out to a lot of default data so that the same stuff does not need to be entered over and over and over again.
Then if you pick the wrong one, or just need to do a major over haul of a drawing go to the custom properties and delete all that you don't need there any more and reapply the property tab to get them all back.
Yep... but I can't remember what the tips were !!!
Guess this one's more an admission to an omission on my part..
I never noticed magnetic lines have a super useful property manager
In attempting to help integrate a new sister company's models and parts into our system I just discovered something that may finally allow us to use weldments with our system. We have never been able to use weldments of multi-body parts as each part needs to be separate and the drawings need to include BOMs and not Cut Lists. I knew that we could save out bodies but they then had to be placed in an assembly to create the drawing and BOM.
This morning in creating a note to the user attempting to do this I discovered the "Create Assembly" option in saving out bodies. I don't know how long it has been there but this could be a game changer for us! You do need to select this option first before renaming the bodies though. When I selected the browse button I was prompted to select the assembly template and then allowed to name the assembly and select the file location. Then I went back up and selected the parts to save out and renamed them. Pick the green check and viola! I have a new assembly (with custom properties and a BOM) as well as individual piece parts.
OK, so Betty Baker did it to me again with one of her tips and perhaps this is admission, kind of like Rob Edwards has stated.
I knew that I could right click a component and then configure it but she showed me that I could do the same for a dimension. I've always done it differently.
Thanks Betty
Steve C
Mates as well:
I have had users go into panic mode because that accidently hit F9 or F10 and thought they crashed SW. LOL.
When I press those keys again they go "What did you do?!" I just tell them "It's magic!". hehe
Keep them wonder'n...
Steve Calvert wrote:
OK, so Betty Baker did it to me again with one of her tips and perhaps this is admission, kind of like Rob Edwards has stated.
I knew that I could right click a component and then configure it but she showed me that I could do the same for a dimension. I've always done it differently.
Thanks Betty
Steve C
Yes Steve Calvert, that was a great tip that Betty Baker showed us recently, I've been configuring dimensions and creating new configurations for quite some time now, I've also been pushing my co-workers to do it as well-previously they were pack and going drawings and models...now if I could only get them to use design tables more often...
Chris Saller wrote:
I have had users go into panic mode because that accidently hit F9 or F10 and thought they crashed SW. LOL.
When I press those keys again they go "What did you do?!" I just tell them "It's magic!". hehe
Keep them wonder'n...
Job security Chris Saller
Oh damn! That is cool
Steve C
Betty Baker wrote:
Steve Calvert I am glad someone finds my little tips useful.
Betty,
I just read your tip and this will be very helpful. Thank you.
I am guessing that we would still need to create a design table if we wanted to edit several dimensions on the different configurations? Or will it create the same type of table if you select several dimensions and select Configure Dimension?
One that most of you probably know is the View setting. You can change your views by right-click "Set Current View As...".
This pops up now and then for me how to change the orientation of the part.
Jim Steinmeyer wrote:
Betty Baker wrote:
Steve Calvert I am glad someone finds my little tips useful.
Betty,
I just read your tip and this will be very helpful. Thank you.
I am guessing that we would still need to create a design table if we wanted to edit several dimensions on the different configurations? Or will it create the same type of table if you select several dimensions and select Configure Dimension?
You can add dimensions to the configure dimension table very easily.
Once you have selected the dimension and selected "Configure dimension", then just double click any dimensions in your graphics area to add them to the table. You can even double click features in the tree to get to more dimensions, and to get the "suppress" column for that feature.
If you plan on coming back to edit the same dimensions over and over, you can even save the table and simple come back to it.
Jim Steinmeyer wrote:
Betty Baker wrote:
Steve Calvert I am glad someone finds my little tips useful.
Betty,
I just read your tip and this will be very helpful. Thank you.
I am guessing that we would still need to create a design table if we wanted to edit several dimensions on the different configurations? Or will it create the same type of table if you select several dimensions and select Configure Dimension?
Yes, you can select multiple dimensions, right-click and choose "Configure dimension" from the drop-down, and the simplified design table will open with a column for each dimension you had selected. Or you can add columns to an existing table, as Dan Pihlaja said.
There's a lot we kind of forget or a lot we've never used before. I can remember using the configure components before but don't remember the rest.
It's a cool piece of the puzzle we cal Solidworks.
Steve C
I don't think anyone has mentioned this nice feature..
If you give your table a name it gets added where you would normally see your Design Table
.. was looking/searching for something about magnification and found this,.. omg... sorry man,.. SMH,.. what a TOTAL WASTE OF the users annual RESOURCE$.
"Some people didn't appreciate the skeumorphic design of it, despite the handle and other realistic appearances not actually getting in the way in what was there in beta"
https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/208032?messageTarget=all&start=225&mode=comments#comment-763030
Oh, I don't know. I do find it helpful when adding explode lines between small holes. It saves having to zoom in select....zoom out....select....
That is the only place I've used it though.
Paul Salvador wrote:
.. was looking/searching for something about magnification and found this,.. omg... sorry man,.. SMH,.. what a TOTAL WASTE OF the users annual RESOURCE$.
What are you replying to? The "go to original message" link no longer works.
Dan Pihlaja wrote:
Paul Salvador wrote:
.. was looking/searching for something about magnification and found this,.. omg... sorry man,.. SMH,.. what a TOTAL WASTE OF the users annual RESOURCE$.
What are you replying to? The "go to original message" link no longer works.
I believe it's this one:
https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/208032?messageTarget=all&start=225&mode=comments#comment-762857
Dan Pihlaja wrote:
Paul Salvador wrote:
.. was looking/searching for something about magnification and found this,.. omg... sorry man,.. SMH,.. what a TOTAL WASTE OF the users annual RESOURCE$.
What are you replying to? The "go to original message" link no longer works.
I was wondering the same thing. The "Go to message" link only works when the message is on the same page that's being displayed now.
John mentioned as long as he has been using CPTB and I would concur, 2013-2014 For sure if I remember correctly. Also the icon next to it is very useful if you have multiple templates,(which we do).
Makes switching between job/customer specific requirements handy.