From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Performance Tuning

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- [Narrator] When trying to increase our performance in SolidWorks, especially when using large assemblies, it's good to adjust our view settings as well. Let's go ahead and go up to the screen and do that. Clicking on my systems options, I go to view. You can see here that I've already started making some adjustments. The first one is zoom to fit when changing the standard views is going to be turned off. If you have it turned on, what it's going to do is zoom in and out the model as you're changing views. This just takes more time and more processing speed, so we're going to keep that off. By preference, I've got my arrow keys' view rotation set to five degrees. This means when I hit my arrow keys on my keyboard, I can just clock the model assembly around by five degree increments. This is done so you're using your keyboard more and you don't have to drag stuff around, and then it causes more processing power. It can just snap to a position. Moving down, though, the transitions are…

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