The simplest enhancement in the reduction of mouse movement, meanwhile, would have to be the Selecting Midpoints with Dynamic Highlighting feature. By activating the Convert Entities tool and selecting the face, it allows the selection of all inner loops. Now, the Convert Entities tool has been enhanced with Converting Entities with Internal Loops. The trick, of course, was to know this shortcut. You would select a face and then Ctrl-select one inner edge and then use the Convert Entities tool, which would convert inner edges to sketch entities. There has always been the ability to use a shortcut when you wanted to convert entities and you required the inner, not the outer, edges. Along with the addition of cap ends, there is now the ability to change and add construction geometry to either the base or offset line, or both. This simple addition has made this a much faster process. But in the past, we then had to select the Tangent Arc tool in order to cap one end, then the other.
In my work, we do quite a few routes in timber panels for roller-shutter tracks and are always using Offset Entities. There’s a fancy new triad for moving parts/features/faces
SolidWorks 2016 – Sketchingįor me, the stand-out among the sketching enhancements would have to be the Cap Ends for Offset Entities feature. This also applies and moves the new context-based view ‘breadcrumb’ feature to the pointer location.
The ‘D’ key has been assigned as the default keyboard shortcut to move the confirmation corner to the pointer location. I currently have my ‘OK & cancel’ confirmation set in a mouse gesture, but this added feature might now have me rethinking my workflow. The ability to move the confirmation corner options to the pointer is one of those features that may be underrated and overlooked, but will do the most in terms of reducing mouse movements. It now displays child relationships and references them in a different colour (purple) and displays the name of features that cannot be shown, due to not being expanded. The Visualisation Tool for Referencing feature, introduced in SolidWorks 2015, has also received some enhancement. The colour changes from orange to blue on activation. This is now a single colour, more compact and uses a simpler, 180-degree design – as compared to its previous multi-coloured, 360-degree design. And by taking the approach of starting with a ‘clean sheet of paper’, the user interface for SolidWorks is now much more closely aligned with Dassault Systèmes’ 3D Experience products.Īccompanying the changes to the user interface is a redesigned triad for manipulating objects. With 2k and 4k monitors becoming the norm, SolidWorks’ icons (many still in bitmap dating back to the original SolidWorks products) have struggled to scale well. There are very good reasons for the changes to the interface. I’m even content with the colours, which at first I thought lacked strength in both blue and grey shades. Now, after using the program regularly at night over the past few months, and then returning to SolidWorks 2015 during the day, I must say that I now much prefer the new interface. I made comments along the lines of, “I’m not offended by it”, and “I’m a monocolour type of guy, but I find the colour is a little wishy-washy.” I had the chance to take another look and provideįeedback at the start of 2015, in an online meeting with SolidWorks’ user experience design team. I first saw the redesigned interface around 15 months ago, when SolidWorks conducted a survey on its proposed redesign. Interface changes are always controversial and this one, I’m sure, will be no different. On opening this release of SolidWorks, the first thing I noticed is the all-new interface. Here are a few that I find of interest, selected from the program’s core components. In the SolidWorks 2016 suite of components, there are over 200 listed enhancements.
SOLIDWORKS 2016 WINDOWS 10
Although my own use of SolidWorks 2016 over recent months has hardly taxed the program, I can report that SolidWorks 2016 and Windows 10 are, at this stage, playing very nicely together. In addition, SolidWorks 2016 will be fully supported for Microsoft Windows 10.
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