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Customize Tool Buttons

From the Customize dialog box, you can:

  • Add tool buttons to active toolbars, including the CommandManager, the Menu Bar toolbar, and your personal shortcut bars. This includes buttons with flyout controls such as View Orientations   .

  • Place tool buttons on more than one toolbar.

  • Remove tool buttons from toolbars.

  • Rearrange tool buttons on toolbars.

  • Move tool buttons from one toolbar to another.

Display toolbars before customizing their tool buttons.

To customize tool buttons:

  1. With a document open, click Tools, Customize, or right-click in the window border and select Customize.

For shortcut bars, use the keyboard shortcut  to display the toolbar, right click, and click Customize.

  1. On the Commands tab, under Categories, select a toolbar.

  2. Under Buttons, drag a tool button to any toolbar.

  3. With the Customize Commands dialog box open, in the SolidWorks window, drag tool buttons:

  • From one position on a toolbar to another.

  • From one toolbar to another.

  • From a toolbar into the graphics area to remove them from the toolbar.

  1. Click OK.

 



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