Input dimension value |
Opens the Modify dialog box when you insert a dimension. |
Single command per pick |
Clears the sketch and dimension tools after each use.
Double-clicking a tool causes the tool to remain selected for
additional use.
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Use shaded face highlighting |
Displays the selected faces in a solid color (green by
default). To specify a different highlight color, from the
System Options dialog
box, click Colors and
modify the current color scheme.
Some third-party
applications might require that you clear this
option.
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Show thumbnail graphics in Windows Explorer |
Displays a thumbnail graphic instead of an icon in File
Explorer for each SOLIDWORKS part or assembly document. Uses a
palette of 16 colors. Substitutes a similar color if the model uses
a color that is not available. To display the
graphic in an isometric view with a white background, click
and click Use
isometric, zoom to fit view for document
preview.
The thumbnail graphics appear in the
Open and Save As dialog boxes. You may
need to open and save the document to see the thumbnail
graphics.
The thumbnail images do not update when:
- A file is saved without it being
opened in its own window.
- If the top-level assembly is saved,
and those new files are saved externally.
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Use system separator for dimensions |
Selects the default operating system decimal separator
displaying decimal numbers. To override the default separator, clear
the option and enter a symbol such as a period or a comma. Set the operating system default from the
Windows Control
Panel.
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Use English language menus |
Sets the menu language to English when you specify another
language during installation and you set the regional options in the
Windows Control Panel to that
language. Exit and restart the SOLIDWORKS
software for this change to take effect.
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Use English language feature and file names |
Displays feature names in the FeatureManager® design tree and automatically
creates file names in English. Existing feature and file names in a
foreign language do not update when you select this option. Available when you clear Use English language menus, you
run the SOLIDWORKS software on a foreign language operating
system, and you installed the SOLIDWORKS software for that
foreign language.
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Enable Confirmation Corner |
Displays the Confirmation Corner in the upper right corner of
the graphics area. See Accepting Features. |
Auto-show PropertyManager |
Displays the PropertyManager when you select existing sketch
entities, dimensions, and annotations in the graphics area. If you clear this option and you select
existing sketch entities, dimensions, and annotations in the
graphics area, you can click the PropertyManager tab to display the
PropertyManager.
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Auto-size PropertyManager when panels are split |
Resizes the PropertyManager when you split the graphics area into panels. |
Automatically edit macro after recording |
Opens the macro editor after you record and save a
macro. |
Stop VSTA debugger on macro exit |
Stops the VSTA macro debugger when a macro exits. When
cleared, leaves the debugger running so that you can continue to
debug the UI or event created by the macro. For
example, if a macro displays a form and exits, the form
disappears when the macro ends. Clear this option so that the
debugger continues to run and the form is available for you to
test.
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Enable FeatureXpert |
Enables FeatureXpert to automatically fix parts so they
rebuild successfully. |
Enable Freeze bar |
Enables Feature Freeze. Use in complex models to exclude
features from rebuilds of the model, which reduces rebuild time, and
to prevent unintentional changes to the model. |
When rebuild error occurs |
Controls the action at the first rebuild error.
Stop
|
Allows you to fix the model before rebuilding. Feature error
explanations appear when you hover the pointer over
a feature in the FeatureManager design tree.
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Continue
|
Continues to rebuild the model with the error without prompting.
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Prompt
|
Prompts you to continue rebuilding or to stop when an error occurs.
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Custom property used as component description |
Specifies a custom description. For example, the Open dialog box has a Description label that displays the
model description. Instead of displaying the Description label, you can display
a label that you specify. See Summary Information - Custom and Configuration Specific. If you change the custom property used
as component description in a saved document, you must manually
add the new description to the Summary Information dialog box.
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Show latest Technical Alerts and
News in Welcome dialog |
Displays regular updates on the Alerts
tab of the Welcome dialog
box. |
Check for solutions when SOLIDWORKS
crashes |
Searches for a solution to a crash. Available
solutions display
in the SOLIDWORKS Error Report dialog box.
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Enable sounds for SOLIDWORKS events |
Enables sounds for events such as File Open Complete and Collision Detected. |
Enable VSTA VERSION
3.0 |
Enables version 3 of VSTA to work with .NET
macros. For more information, see the SOLIDWORKS API Help: Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for
Applications (VSTA). To access the SOLIDWORKS API help,
click Help > API Help. |
Configure Sounds |
Opens the Windows Sound dialog box, where you can assign sounds to SOLIDWORKS events. |
Allow
cosmetic threads for upgrade. |
Allow parts, assemblies, and
drawings with cosmetic threads created with SOLIDWORKS 2018 or
earlier to be upgraded to take advantage of improvements in cosmetic
threads released in SOLIDWORKS 2019. When this
option is selected, you must manually upgrade each legacy
document that you want to use the improvements. Legacy documents
that are not upgraded maintain the old behaviors.
To upgrade cosmetic threads in a legacy
document, open the model and right-click the top item in the
FeatureManager design tree, and click Upgrade cosmetic thread features. After you
upgrade, the command is no longer available for that
model.
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Help make SOLIDWORKS products better by automatically sending your log files to DS SOLIDWORKS Corporation |
Silently sends your log files for review to the SOLIDWORKS Customer Experience Improvement Program. |
Reset |
Restores factory defaults for all system options or for only general system options. |