- Breadcrumbs Enhancements
You can select multiple mates in the selection breadcrumbs and display the breadcrumbs in a semitransparent state at the pointer.
- Customizing Task Pane Tabs
You can reorder, show, or hide tabs in the Task Pane. You can also specify the default tab that opens when you open the Task Pane.
- Improved Preview for Minimized Documents
You can hover over the title bar of a minimized document to see its name, thumbnail, and path.
- Keyboard Accessibility
You can use the keyboard to access tools in shortcut bars, shortcut menus, and context toolbars in the graphics area.
- Markups for Collaboration
You can use sketch tools to create, view, edit, and delete markups for parts and assemblies. You can export markups as .pdf, .bmp, .jpg, .png, and .tif files for collaboration purposes.
- Measure Tool
The Measure tool is available for all SOLIDWORKS tools used for part, assembly, and drawing files. You can use the tool even while other tools are running.
- Microsoft Surface Dial in SOLIDWORKS
The SOLIDWORKS software supports the Microsoft® Surface Dial. Surface Dial lets you view model attributes and zoom, pan, or rotate models.
- Open Dialog Box
In the Open dialog box, if you select one or multiple files of the same type and click Options, the System Options dialog box displays the options for the selected file type.
- Opening Part Configurations in Quick View Mode
When you open a part in Quick view mode, you can specify the configuration to open. You can also do this in eDrawings®.
- Recent Documents Improvements
The SOLIDWORKS software can save more recent documents and they are easier to manage.
- Rollback Bar Drag Interaction
Handles in touch mode make it easier to interact with the freeze bar and the rollback bar.
- Status Feedback
A SOLIDWORKS dialog box may appear during lengthy processes when Microsoft® Windows® detects that the SOLIDWORKS software has stopped responding. You can wait for the command to finish (recommended) or close the SOLIDWORKS software.
- Touch Mode
When you use touch gestures, you can work in a more direct way with your content.