SOLIDWORKS Tips & Tricks- 60 Tips in 60 Minutes. Learn so many tips in so little time.

A screen capture recording of a presentation delivered at SOLIDWORKS World 2017 in Los Angeles. This is designed to be a very fast paced and dense presentation to share as many tips and tricks as possible.

[@mominkhan5631]

Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!

[@darrenjattan4277]

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[@Aravindhan_Balachandran]

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[@tinand724]

TABLE OF CONTENT 00:00 0 - Introduction 01:08 1 - Options Search 02:00 2 - Repeat Last Command 02:34 3 - Force Rebuilt 03:41 4 - Reference Planes 05:00 5 - Recent Files 06:07 6 - Reload 06:56 7 - Context Menu 07:58 8 - Shorcuts Bars 09:06 9 - Command Search 10:24 10 - D Key 12:01 11 - Selection 13:16 12 - Customizing 14:46 13 - Save SOLIDWORKS Settings 16:10 14 - Browse Open Documents 16:58 15 - Filtering the FeatureManager 18:02 16 - Flat Tree View 18:57 17 - Collapse Tree 19:54 18 - Folders in the Tree 20:32 19 - Nuggets in the Tree 22:13 20 - Custom Views 23:26 21 - Rotate About Entity 24:18 22 - Zoom to Fit 24:59 23 - Normal To 26:03 24 - Zoom to Selection 27:02 25 - Rotate About Scene Floor 28:15 26 - Reference Triad 29:23 27 - Sketch Relations 30:15 28 - Window & Lasso Select 31:26 29 - Disable Autorelations 32:20 30 - Power Trim 33:20 31 - Dimension to Tangency 34:55 32 - Create a Sketch on Model Edge 36:08 33 - Fully Define Sketch 36:53 34 - Change Sketch Type Options 37:58 35 - Horizontal & Vertical Relations 39:36 36 - Create One Line 40:33 37 - Arc Dimension 41:06 38 - Close Sketch to Model 42:12 39 - SketchXpert 43:14 40 - The Biad 44:15 41 - Spin Box Increments 45:49 42 - Single Command Per Pick 46:39 43 - Pierce v Coincident 47:42 44 - Override Dims on Drag/Move 48:19 45 - Derived Sketch 49:29 46 - Reset Dragging 50:20 47 - Performance Evaluation 51:21 48 - Feature Freeze 52:26 49 - Quick up to Surface 52:58 50 - Dynamically Load FeatureWorks 53:56 51 - Split Line 53:44 52 - Width Mate 55:32 53 - Hide & Show Components 56:05 54 - Rotate Components 56:33 55 - Assembly Visualization 57:18 56 - Open Top Level Assembly 57:48 57 - Ctrl + Drag to Copy 58:12 58 - Shift + Select Transparent Geometry 58:48 59 - Isolate & Display States 59:25 60 - Magnifying Glass

[@stephenpetrock4420]

Marco Rodríguez awesome!

[@CameronBarnhill]

Love the fast paced format. Thanks

[@Agoshkumar]

A satisfactory video. Thumbs up !

[@tanjilmomin4395]

Totally worth watching for an hour. Learned a lot of things which would have taken so much of time to learn on my own. Thanks for sharing it with us.

[@yoshihirodobashi7129]

I attended at SWW2018.That's useful technic for SOLIDWORKS User.Thank you

[@digitalprintfranca3032]

It really worked for me after I look and try some tutorials, yours is the one that worked. Owe you a lot.

[@estivenlozano6613]

Hey! Thanks so much for this video!

[@MuhammadTariq-uk3wk]

Really these 60 minutes ! you can learn them through decades. Really great video ! thumbs up !

[@stephenpetrock4420]

Thanks!

[@user-gi8vi1ct1y]

truly save lots of time for me, many thanks

[@miguelp.5014]

I learnt a lot, thank you for share!!!

[@bebold1338]

tips are useful, thanks for your sharing!

[@monsterjesse]

thank you for the level up in experience and skills

[@colinng1253]

Thanks so much for this, so many things in here that I never thought I needed but will probably be very useful for me.

[@stephenpetrock4420]

Thanks! Glad you found some useful tips

[@user-rx4ol5cb9f]

Great! Thanks a lot!

[@stephenpetrock4420]

Анастасия Карцева thanks!

[@nooradeeba7573]

Woah, great video mate!

[@QueannaJulien]

very useful, thank you!

[@SolidWorksTutorial1]

It was really helpful thanks for sharing this video

[@anupsebastian9883]

Amazing video man! Learnt a lot of things i didnt know and the things i dint know how i did :D

[@arulrockslide]

Thanks, bro..

[@arvinfirouzi7608]

great, thanks

[@daonhattam3003]

i really apreciate your help with dowloanding this software

[@saimnaidu3236]

Amazing bud!

[@stephenpetrock4420]

saim naidu thanks for that!

[@GMIqbalMahmud]

Thanks a lot !!

[@il.imstill3255]

Great lesson

[@zp4pxn308]

i love u so much bro, thanks very much

[@ICP464]

very useful thank you

[@shahedmarleen8757]

🎯 Bang on target

[@WHCAudio]

Nice now I'm a CSWE.

[@prathokkiran]

Bravo..

[@---gachamiki---4245]

Nice tutorialiii

[@Fady_Diaa]

very useful

[@balakrishnan7879]

superb

[@clos242003]

I feel like I can conquer the world now!

[@user-hj6vg3si1r]

respect

[@alializadeh8195]

Thanx

[@alejandroperez5368]

Rotate about scene floor. Is there a way to enable it on the fly through a shortcut? Like CTRL+SHIFT+middle mouse button and drag?

[@MopLobster]

The link is broken for the pdf. Would love to get my hands on that handout.

[@mathiasconradsen3964]

Hi, thanks for the 60 tips! The link for the pdf version no longer work and i really need the pdf, thanks (:

[@zacharyrhyner3882]

The links to the handout are not working. Would love to get my hands on them, thanks.

[@yonatanshenhav1208]

A very useful video, thank you. Also very nice presentation - i really like fast talkers, it makes listening easier. Although the Dropbox message was really distracting

[@monag4976]

For once, the software is actually really useful

[@anuragshakya9163]

Thanks a ton for the video. Actually i was searching for this setting for long, wonder if you could help. When you hover your cursor over a command or tool a soft description window appears automatically describing the name of the tool etc. that setting is off on my Solidworks and am unable to find it. Thanks.

[@stephenpetrock4420]

Anurag Shakya thanks for the feedback, glad you liked it. What you are looking for are tooltips. There is a setting to turn these on from the customize settings. Click the drop down arrow next to the gear icon at the top of the interface and click “customize...” Make sure the check mark is enabled on the “shot tool tips” option found on the first tab called “Toolbars.”

[@benjaminnguyen7176]

100 likes for you.:))

[@alejandroperez5368]

I think It's best to hit 'D' for smart dimensioning instead of this breadcrumbs thing.

[@stephenpetrock4420]

Good point Alejandro! I agree with you. I just make sure to show the default out of the box settings in presentations

[@robothegreatful]

Does anyone have a link for the handout?

[@CoolOldGeek]

My boss's head just exploded. It was worth it. Now let's see if he paid attention.

[@stephenpetrock4420]

Let us know!

[@Ayhan_hawar]

god bless u xdd

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[@zip7806]

Its All about the Girth Mate. Uh,, I mean Width Mate. LOL........

[@BikeshJaiswal]

45:57 i dnt understand this part

[@stephenpetrock4420]

This is showing an alternative way to use commands. By default you can use a command many times until you "exit" the command - meaning you can sketch 100 circles all within the circle command before you exit the command typically by hitting escape. But with this option turned on (single command per pick) you will only be able to use the command once and it will automatically exit the command. In other words you sketch one circle and the circle command is automatically turned off.Hope that helps

[@BikeshJaiswal]

@@stephenpetrock4420 thanks sir

[@sabaripandian116]

If someone moved to solidworks from other software they work like knife in the butter smooth. Think the vice versa case moving from solidworks to CATIA . They will be fucked by the Beast CATIA.

[@3-body-problem]

Poor guy. Someone should have disabled the DropBox notifications for him prior to the start of the presentation. So distracting.

[@stephenpetrock4420]

David DeMaria I know right! This was the last time I ever used a conference computer and not my own

[@Trump-a-Tron]

If I'd wanna TYPE instead of drawing I'd use AutoCAD ffs!!!

[@savagetarquitetura]

Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!