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Feature Manager and search settings

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Feature Manager and search settings

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- [Instructor] When we're trying to increase our performance in SolidWorks, it also helps to adjust some of the FeatureManager and search settings in the system's options. So let's go up to systems options and take a look at that. So going to the FeatureManager, there's not a lot to adjust here, but I wanted to highlight a few things. First, everybody should be using the Enable FeatureManager tree filter. Now when you have an assembly open, this option is automatically locked, and you can see that I have it on. And what that means is that when I have an assembly here, if I'm trying to look through a long list of parts, and I'm not sure where it is or what assembly it's in, I can just use the search filter here, just start typing in some text, and it'll isolate the potential parts that I'm looking for. So that definitely increases your productivity when you're trying to look through massive assemblies and you only know what the part number is, or the part name is. You can even put…

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