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Orientation

Opens the View Selector and Orientation dialog box.

Hide component under mouse

Hide/Show. Hides all components below the pointer.

While Inserting a Component. Rotates the component 90º.

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

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

Browse recent documents

Zooms to fit.

Shortcut bar

Opens the shortcut bar.

Tangent arc toggle

Repeat last command

Repeats the last command.

Confirmation corner / breadcrumbs

Command search

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

Sketches. Copies and pastes sketch entities.

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.

Drawings. Copies and pastes drawing views.

Zooms the model out.

Toggle selection filter toolbar

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

Sketches. Copies and pastes sketch entities.

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.

Drawings. Copies and pastes drawing views.

Area magnify

Redraws the screen.

Toggle selection filter type

Rebuild

Rebuilds the model.

Select a transparent face on a part.

Force regen

Show component under mouse

Hide/Show. Shows all components below the pointer.

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

(while sketching) Turn off automatic sketch relations.

Front

Swap windows

Moves among open documents.

Undo view change

View cube

Opens the View Selector.

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

Dimension to arc min / max

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

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

Turns on snapping.

Select multiple entities.

Close Solidworks

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

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.

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

Rotates the model 90º.

Opens the shortcut menu and context toolbar.

Normal to

Isometric

Change the annotation view plane for a dimension or annotation.

Task pane

Turns off automatic alignment when you place dimensions and annotations.

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

Select the back faces in the View Selector cube.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Motion studies. Moves multiple keys in the MotionManager.

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.

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.

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

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

Select anywhere in a table to move the table.

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

Zooms the model in.

Pans a model.

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.

Motion studies. Copies multiple keys in the MotionManager.

Sketches. Copies sketch entities.

Parts. Copies features.

Assemblies. Copies parts and subassemblies.

Drawings. Copies drawing views.

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

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.

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

Suppresses inference lines when dragging an endpoint.

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

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

Shows a section view when using the magnifying glass.

Opens the shortcut menu and context toolbar.

Rotates the model parallel to the viewing plane.

Copies the component and creates a SmartMate.

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

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

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

Rotates the model parallel to the viewing plane.

Zooms the model in and out about the screen center.

Pans a model.

Inserts a degree º symbol.

Inserts a diameter Ø symbol.

Inserts a µ symbol.