You can customize menus, keyboard shortcuts, toolbars, and the Task Pane. You can also assign macros and then quickly access them from the user interface or the keyboard.
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Customize main menus and shortcut menus.
To make it easier to access commands you use frequently, you can add toolbar buttons to the context toolbars that appear when you select features in the graphics area or FeatureManager design tree.
Shortcuts in SOLIDWORKS are either accelerator keys or keyboard shortcuts.
You can specify shortcut keys from the Keyboard tab of the Customize dialog box.
If you customized SOLIDWORKS menus or shortcut menus, you can set them back to default values or show all menu items. You can also customize toolbars, menus, and the Task Pane according to an area of expertise.
You can assign a macro to a toolbar button, a keyboard shortcut, or a mouse gesture.
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