From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

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Zoom to Selection

Zoom to Selection

- [Instructor] In this movie we're going to be learning about zoom to selection. Now, if you have a big, complicated assembly you might have a whole bunch of parts, and you're not really sure where those parts are in your assembly. Well, over here in the feature manager I can click on an individual part, right-click on it and I can go up here to this little, it's like a magnifying glass with an equal, and it says zoom to selection. So I can click on that and it's going to zoom in to wherever that is. Same thing with some of these other things. I don't know where this little part is. Again, right-click on it, come down here, zoom to selection, and it's going to zoom in so I can see how... There it is, way down there. I can then find it. So it's pretty simple and easy way to easily locate where these components are in a large assembly. Obviously you can click on them, and they'll highlight for you as well in the graphics…

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