Technical Tip: The Shortcut Bar (“S” Key)

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This blog post is the sixth in a series of technical tips about the SolidWorks User Interface. Call the series “Everything you wanted to know about —–, but were afraid to ask”. The first few posts will be about the various types of toolbars available in the system. This post is about the SolidWorks Shortcut Bar (“S” Key).

The Shortcut Toolbar (“S” Key)

The Shortcut Bar is a user customizable toolbar that was introduced in SolidWorks 2008. The intention of the Shortcut Bar is to allow users access to commonly used commands in different “environments” with very little mouse movement. There are four versions of the Shortcut Bar, one each for parts, assemblies, drawings, and sketches (the default Shortcut Bar for each environment are shown below):

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