From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

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Mouse gesture tips

Mouse gesture tips

- [Instructor] Mouse gestures are a great way to have quick access to different views or different tools right at your tool tip. To get into mouse gestures, go ahead and click on your right mouse button, and then quickly move in one or any direction you want. Notice this little wheel pops up here. You can choose which different view you'd like to see. Then, keep going in that direction. Notice your model spins around to that view very quickly. You can easily get back into that just by right mouse clicking, and then choosing a different direction. Maybe this one over here. It spins around to that. Now, if you happen to be in a different mode, like a sketch, so if I start a sketch here at the bottom. Now, use my mouse button, now I have the option to choose different drawing tools. If I wanted a center line, just move right, and I automatically choose the center line. Right mouse click again, choose a regular line, Right mouse click again, and I have a dimension. I can very easily…

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