From the course: Learning SOLIDWORKS Composer
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Using the Digger tool - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Learning SOLIDWORKS Composer
Using the Digger tool
- [Instructor] The Digger tool is a powerful tool within Composer that can help us generate unique and detailed views of our products. Now to find the Digger tool, I can navigate to the Home tab, and right in the middle I have the Digger button. We just click on that button, and automatically this magnifying glass will pop up into my workspace. Alternatively, the space bar is the hotkey to turn on or off the Digger tool. Now once my Digger magnifying glass pops up, the first thing I like to do is just click and drag the outer rim to move the key here. We can see here, this is actually just like a magnifying glass, just kind of zooming in onto my specific product. So I'll first want to place this wherever I'd like. Let's say I actually want to throw it down somewhere in the bottom left here. And then the next thing I might want to do is click on this little wrench icon, and that will show or hide all of the Digger tools available to me. So as soon as I click on Show Tools there, I get…
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