From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

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Single command per pick

Single command per pick

- [Instructor] Have you heard about the system option called single command per pick? If you haven't, let me show you how it works. Now normally if you choose a tool it stays active. Notice this highlights my circle tool here. I'm going to click once and drag out a box. Sorry not a box, that's a circle. Draw out circle, let's draw a few circles here, and notice the command stays active. Every time I click it draws one more circle. All right? Now if I switch over to single command per pick or per click, it's going to change that functionality. Let's go ahead and hit Escape to get out of that tool, come up here to the gear, which is Options, and then right over here is single command per pick. Here it is, so click on that, click OK. And now let's go ahead and turn that tool on. All right? Draw a circle and guess what happens? That tool is now turned off. If I click again nothing happens, I'm in the selection tool. It…

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