Isometric

Undo

Tangent arc toggle

Show component under mouse

Normal to

Rotates the model parallel to the viewing plane.

Redraws the screen.

New

Inserts a degree º symbol.

Inserts a µ symbol.

Find / replace

Assemblies. Copies and pastes parts and subassemblies. If you select a feature in the FeatureManager design tree, you can copy and paste the feature as an assembly-level feature.

While Inserting a Component. Rotates the component 90º.

Force regen

Zoom to fit

Spell check

Print

Temporarily displays all hidden components as transparent and you can select which components to show.

Use these keyboard shortcuts to copy and paste, similar to Windows functionality.

Select one edge in a drawing view if multiple edges are collinear. In general, when you select an edge in a drawing, the entire line is highlighted if all of the line segments are collinear.

Parts. Copies features.

Tables. Select anywhere in a table to move the table.

Task pane

Area magnify

Inserts a diameter Ø symbol.

Mates. Show all temporarily hidden faces in a semi-transparent state.

Motion studies. Moves multiple keys in the MotionManager.

Swap windows

Orientation

Confirmation corner / breadcrumbs

View cube

Opens the View Selector.

Hide component under mouse

Repeats the last command.

Redo

Mates. Creates a SmartMate when you Alt + drag a component.

Opens the shortcut bar.

Mates. Temporarily hides a face when you hover over a face and click Alt.

Pans a model.

Snaps a dimension to the max or min location when dimensioning arcs and circles with the Smart Dimension tool.

Dimension to arc min / max

Undo view change

Select the back faces in the View Selector cube.

Right

Moves a dimension to another drawing view when you drag the dimension and drop it on another view.

When sketching a line, the line snaps to specific lengths.

Symmetrically adjusts both handles of a control point in a spline.

Reordering components. When moving a component in the FeatureManager design tree, ensures that the component remains at the same level in the tree and prevents it from being moved into a subassembly.

Drawings. Copies drawing views.

Moves among open documents.

Toggle selection filter type

Hide/Show. Hides all components below the pointer.

Changes the XYZ plane when sketching in a 3D sketch.

Front

Rebuild

Rebuilds the model.

Back

Top

Browse recent documents

Command search

Delete

Close window

Shortcut bar

Repeat last command

Open

Cut

Save

Turns off automatic alignment when you place dimensions and annotations.

Motion studies. Copies multiple keys in the MotionManager.

Mates. Show a temporarily hidden face when you hover over the hidden face and click Shift + Alt.

Full screen

Flips the direction of the forming tool when dragging the forming tool onto a face.

Opens the Appearances PropertyManager when you drag an appearance from the Task Pane onto a model.

Close file

To show one or more components, move the pointer to the graphics area, and press and hold Ctrl + Shift + Tab. All hidden components are temporarily displayed as transparent. Click a hidden component to change it to shown.

Select all

Drawings. Copies and pastes drawing views.

Parts. Copies and pastes sketches.

Assemblies. Copies and pastes parts and subassemblies. If you select a feature in the FeatureManager design tree, you can copy and paste the feature as an assembly-level feature.

Sketches. Copies and pastes sketch entities.

Use these keyboard shortcuts to copy and paste, similar to Windows functionality.

Paste

Copy

Sketches. Copies and pastes sketch entities.

Parts. Copies and pastes sketches.

Drawings. Copies and pastes drawing views.

Toggle selection filter toolbar

Opens the View Selector and Orientation dialog box.

Close Solidworks

Opens the shortcut menu and context toolbar.

Zoom out

Zooms the model out.

Zoom in

Zooms the model in.

Zooms to fit.

Hide/Show. Shows all components below the pointer.

While Inserting a Component. Rotates the component -90º.

Toolbar

Zooms the model in and out about the screen center.

Pans a model.

Rotates the model parallel to the viewing plane.

Moves an annotation independently from the group in which it is contained.

Select anywhere in a table to move the table.

Triad. When using the triad, aligns the triad with an edge or face when you Alt + drag the center ball or handle on the triad and drop it on an edge or face. An example of using the triad is in Move with Triad mode and in Exploded Views.

Shows a section view when using the magnifying glass.

On a Component. Invokes mouse gestures instead of the Rotate Component tool.

Sketches. Moves a set of sketch entities.

Parts. Moves a feature.

Drawings. Moves the selected drawing view and any related views together as if they are one entity. You can also move a dimension to a different view.

Copies the component and creates a SmartMate.

In a blank area of the graphics area. Invokes mouse gestures.

On a component. Rotates a component relative to the assembly origin.

Shows a hidden body or component when you hover over the body or component.

Opens the shortcut menu and context toolbar.

Bottom

Drawing views. Breaks the drawing view alignment when you insert a drawing view.

Annotations. Copies annotations without snapping to the grid or to other annotations.

Copies a component when you Ctrl + drag it.

Selection. In an assembly with preselected components, inverts the selection when you Ctrl + drag a selection box.

Toolbox. Creates a part instead of a configuration when you drag a Toolbox component into an assembly.

Assemblies. Copies parts and subassemblies.

Suppresses inference lines when dragging an endpoint.

Creates additional leaders on a note when you Ctrl + drag a leader's arrowhead.

Sketches. Copies sketch entities.

Left

(while sketching) Turn off automatic sketch relations.

Select a transparent face on a part.

Change the annotation view plane for a dimension or annotation.

Select multiple entities.

Selects everything within the two selected items in the FeatureManager design tree.

Turns on snapping.

Reorients a Routing component when you insert a Routing component into an existing Routing assembly.

Rotates the model 90º.