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PATTERNS: If what you pre-selected were members of a feature Pattern, the DELETE key will pop-up a dialog asking you if you really wanted to delete the entire pattern, or if instead you wanted to add the selected pattern members to the "SKIP LIST". But did you know, that over the last 4 years, the programmers have enhanced the intelligence behind the DELETE key, allowing it to react differently in the following situations:īODIES: If what you have pre-selected are Solid or Surface Bodies, the DELETE key will instead launch the function INSERT - FEATURES - DELETE BODY. Most people know that you can delete lines from a sketch, or features from the Solidworks feature Manager, by pre-electing the object(s) and then simply hitting the DELETE key. So now I've got the PgUp key and the PgDn key to walk up and down through the Sheets in a Drawing. It shows up as "Prior" and "Next" within the Customize Keyboard dialog. "I wonder if you can assign a hotkey to PgUp and PgDn?" I thought. So I went on over to Tools - Customize - Keyboard, I did a little search for "sheet" and found the two View commands I had just discovered. ![]() I tried them out in a multi-sheet Drawing and sure enough, they allowed a nice switch between Drawing Sheets! (Double-clicking the FeatureManager is SO MUCH WORK!) But who would want to pull these commands out of a menu? That's so 20 years ago. I was looking purposelessly at the pull-down menus in SolidWorks the other day and found View - Next Sheet, and View - Previous Sheet. I'm not a big keyboard guy, having grown up in the Mouse Age in terms of CAD, but I'm a big fan of Alt-Tab and Ctrl-Tab to switch applications or open documents, and I've got a handful of custom hotkeys that I like. So I guess it's good that SolidWorks has a lot of customization options.
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