Technical Tip Toolbar Flyouts

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This blog post is the fifth 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 Toolbar Flyouts in SolidWorks.

Toolbar Flyouts:

There are two general types of toolbar flyouts in SolidWorks.

1. Toolbar associated flyouts- These flyouts are derived from the regular toolbars and were introduced in SolidWorks 2004. Think of these as taking a regular toolbar and embedding it into another toolbar as a single button. When you hit the button, it flies out a list of all of the commands that are defined on the regular toolbar associated with that flyout. To change the definition of the flyout, you simply make the regular toolbar visible, customize the buttons that are on that toolbar, and then hide the toolbar. Add-in toolbars, if implemented using the CommandManager APIs, automatically create a toolbar associated flyout for each API toolbar. The Reference Geometry and Curve toolbar flyouts as shown below are examples of toolbar associated flyouts that are shown on the Features tab of the CommandManager by default.

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How do I manipulate my model view let me count the ways

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Tips & Tricks

There are many different ways to manipulate the model view in SolidWorks. This blog post will attempt to put most (all?) of the methods into one document for reference and describe a bit of history as to why some commands work as they do. Maybe you will discover some methods you didn’t know existed before.

Mouse Manipulation

This is perhaps the most popular form of model view manipulation since it doesn’t require you to move your hand off of the mouse and in conjunction with a couple of keyboard “accelerators”, can perform most of the common view manipulations. Here is an outline of all of the manipulations you can make with your mouse. This help topic also outlines most of these methods pretty well.

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SolidWorks Timesaving Tip 10 View Manipulation

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Tips & Tricks

Think you know all the tricks when it comes to view manipulation?

We are all familiar with zooming in and out by rolling the middle-mouse wheel or rotating the model by clicking and holding the middle-mouse button.

But do you know how to access standard and set views, open/close magnifying glass, rotate the model clockwise or counter clockwise and activate isometric view using mouse gesture and keyboard shortcuts? Check our timesaving video to know more!