| 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.
|
| 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.
|
| Restore File Associations |
Click this option to restore file
associations, if you set your system to open all SOLIDWORKS files
from File Explorer with a specific version of SOLIDWORKS. To use this option, you must start SOLIDWORKS
with Run as administrator
privileges. These steps vary per operating system. For
information, consult the Microsoft Knowledge
Base.
|
| 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.
|
| Use
English language menus |
Sets
the menu language to English after you install SOLIDWORKS in another
language. Exit and
restart SOLIDWORKS for this change to take
effect.
|
| 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 run SOLIDWORKS on
a foreign language operating system and you installed SOLIDWORKS
for that foreign language.
|
| 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.
|
| 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.
|
| 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. |
| 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 Properties - Custom and Configuration Properties. If you change the
custom property used as component description in a saved
document, you must manually add the new description to the
Properties dialog
box.
|
| 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.
|
| Enable sounds for SOLIDWORKS events |
Enables sounds for events such as
File Open Complete and Collision Detected. |
| 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.
|
| Create configuration
tables on open |
Automatically creates configuration tables when a
part or assembly has multiple configurations. Using this option
can affect performance.
|
| 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. |