It’s that moment you’ve been waiting for. That moment where your coworker pick his keyboard up, drops it, picks it up again and lifts it over his head. You would like to tell him about a couple SolidWorks Macros that would help him out, buuuuuuuut you’re being entertained and office rage is content YouTube is just hollering for.
On the less antagonizing side, there’s you showing your office buddy how to avoid fits of unnecessary rage by offering two shiny macros for the low price of “sit down and shut up for a few minutes while I show you this friend.”
He smiles. One less lo-fi video of your crazy friend on the web.
The missing keyboard shortcuts
SolidWorks comes with the ability to assign almost every command to a keyboard shortcut. However, there’s no keyboard shortcuts for Mates. Here’s two macros for the most common mates and how to reduce the amount of that annoying mouse button clickin’ to speed up your assembly construction.
There’s nearly 8 ways to create the same 3D model in SolidWorks… along with the 4 other ways. That’s a lot of flexibility, but many of the features just don’t get the use they deserve until someone shows them how to bring forth the hammer of power that is all the crazy, little SolidWorks feature combos you’ve never thought of.
Last year, SolidSmack riveted the academic community with some mighty fine tips for 
Getting just the right detailed drawing view of a model can take immense amounts of time. More than they really should for products designed in 3D. When you open a drawing and nothing is there but the dimensions, that can really make you throw blunt objects.
I know. You’re just screaming, “I work with the CAMERA. Striking a pose this way and that.” *whoosh, whoosh*
What good is 
I occasionally choose to point the fire hose of SolidWorks tips and information into an unsuspecting person’s face without realizing how overwhelming it can be. 
Your SolidWorks drawings are standing out in the open like a very large and overly dressed target of 3D ninja violence. Hey, I’m just sayin. It’s actually a secret society of defected and very agitated ANSI and ISO standard authors that have passed this info on to me.
I had a conversation with someone yesterday about how to create really great looking images without using the SolidWorks rendering add-in, PhotoWorks. I told him it was simple and you can do it in just a few steps. ‘No way, show me.’, he said.
Right now, I currently have 3 versions of SolidWorks installed on my computer – 2007, 2008, and 2009Beta. oh, and 2005 till just recently. It’s crazy I tell ya. I use 2008 mostly right now, but have to switch back to 2007 for some models. It made me wonder what everyone out there is actually using.
