Shortcuts for Feature Manager - View Design Tree, Property Manager, Configurations,... tabs quickly?

SOLIDWORKS How To Questions
1

Hi!

It’s me, again :slight_smile:

Is anyone aware that is it possible to add a keyboard shortcut to switch between Feature Manager tabs? Or is there something “pre-built”? I didn’t find any…

I thought it could be handy to switch between the tabs like switching between windows or open documents…

2

You can write a macro and then assign a keyboard shortcut to that macro.


Sub main()

    Set swApp = Application.SldWorks
    Set swModelDoc = swApp.ActiveDoc
    Set swModelDocExt = swModelDoc.Extension

    'Get SOLIDWORKS CommandManager tabs
    cmdTabs = swModelDocExt.GetCommandTabs

    'Set the active CommandManager tab
    swModelDocExt.ActiveCommandTab = "Sketch"
    activeTabIndex = swModelDocExt.ActiveCommandTabIndex

End Sub

Edit: This is for the command manager, not the feature manager.

3

I’m not aware of a keyboard shortcut to do that, but if you want easy access to the configurations tab you can turn on the toolbars for configurations and display states. That doesn’t have all the functionality of the tab, but it will let you switch between active configurations or display states without the need to go to the configurations tab.

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4

This. Thank you! I hadn’t noticed that there was such an option :slight_smile: Put this in use immediately.

5

You can detach the propertymanager from the rest of the tabs just by pulling on the tab, but I don’t know of any tricks with the rest of it. Except F9 to open/close the featuremanger panel altogether.