From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Customize the User Interface
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Customize shortcut bars - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Customize the User Interface
Customize shortcut bars
- [Instructor] SOLIDWORKS introduced the shortcut bars or the S key a few releases ago, and this is a great new shortcut that's available right at the edge of your mouse cursor, so how this works is depending on which stage you're in inside of a SOLIDWORKS model. So let's say for example I've got a part file open and I'm going to open up a new sketch inside of that. I'm going to put my sketch on the front plane. If I hit the S button on my keyboard where my mouse cursor is, a new toolbar is going to appear. And this is going to give me the relevant features for the area that I'm in inside of SOLIDWORKS. So if I'm in a sketch, if I'm in the top level of a part, if I'm in assembly, or if I'm in a drawing, this toolbar is going to look different every single time. Now again, this is known as the shortcut bar, but you'll often hear it referred to as the S key. So I'm just going to click on my screen. That toolbar's going to…
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