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Selection option rotation using the A key

Selection option rotation using the A key - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

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Selection option rotation using the A key

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'm gonna show you how to use the A key on your keyboard to cycle through various options in the tools inside of SOLIDWORKS. So the first thing I wanna do is start a sketch. I'm gonna choose Sketch up here, and I'm gonna choose the front plane. Then I'm gonna go ahead and choose the Rectangle Tool. Now, notice under the Rectangle Tool, if you click in the dropdown, you've got a Corner Rectangle, Center Rectangle and so on. So you have a bunch of different options here. So I'm gonna go ahead and choose that very first one. Now, notice those same options are right over here. So you can choose the different styles of rectangles you'd like by clicking on them, or just go ahead and click that A key, and the A key will automatically cycle through the different options. So let's go ahead back up here to the Corner Rectangle. Let's draw a corner rectangle. Hit A on your keyboard. This time I'm gonna draw a center point rectangle. Hit A one more time. Now we have…

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