Here’s an old school trick:
Useless? maybe.
You can also double click to not make a sketch line.
Making a 3Dsketch from bodies:
Create the solid, put the view in Wireframe mode, Box Selection all the edges (or Ctrl+A).
Open 3Dsketch (with everything already selected) and convert entities, then Delete Body.
Is the fastest way to create 3dsketches that I know, and feels kind of hidden because you cant select the edges easily if not in that order.
Yup. I learned that from Alin at SW World a few years ago.
It would be best that I do not get to fancy here. Some of the other guys could get really confused. Also not to sure how that would work with Windchill bom, so best to stick with what they know works. Only have a few months left of this contract. So if anyone is looking to hire…
Not a super trick. Just something that some people might not know about, because I just taught it to about 4 people here.
In fact, it really isn’t a Solidworks thing at all, but a Windows thing.
When you are running a program with tabs, like Outlook, Word, Excel, Solidworks.
And specifically, when I say tabs, I mean these:
From Outlook:
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From Solidworks:
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From Word:
Navigating between tabs can be done in multiple ways:
Click on the tab that you want…easy peasy…how everyone does it
Put your mouse in the area (with the window active) and roll your mouse wheel. Each roll “click” of the mouse wheel moves one tab over, either right or left.
CTRL + Page Up or CTRL + Page Down. Page Down cycles to the right, while Page Up cycles to the left. (works in Solidworks, and most browsers that use tabs (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc…), but NOT Outlook, Word, Excel, etc…)
Tap the ALT key, then tap one of the corresponding keys to switch to the tab that you want:
Example: To switch to the Layout Tab in Word, tap the ALT key, then tap P
Works in Microsoft stuff, but not in Browsers or Solidworks.
In a browser, CTRL + TAB will switch between tabs (because these are actually different pages…so its like switching between different documents in Word, etc…)
OH!? This works in Office products too!? That’s new to me.
And in Firefox, Edge and Chrome browsers you can switch between open tabs. Like switching thru open windows in Solidworks.
EDIT: Somehow I feel like I didn’t properly read what Dan had written. oh my… oh me… <()>
EDIT2: But then I realised to check and confirm. I works 
CTRL + TAB changes between windows/tabs in browsers, Office and SW. I learned atleast one new thing today
(Why to avoid Angle Mates: they flip orientation by themselves, so that they require attention so that your “stable fully defined” assembly remains as you intended it.)
How to avoid Angle Mates
I’ve figured this one out lately and it’s proven itself stable so far. If and only if you desire a 45 degree angle, mate a primary plane as Symmetric between two perpendicular primary planes of an adjacent component. The order of selection matters, so that the first selected entity will be the middle item, and the other two are its “ends”. This mate is able to be flipped (intentionally). The major advantage of this method over the method below is that it persists through reorientation of both of the mated components.
(My old method which has minor issues:) Define a reference plane at the desired angle in the assembly, and mate a primary reference plane Parallel to it. This is stable and does not flip by itself, and also can be flipped intentionally. However, if the component is desired to reorient in the assembly, then either the plane needs redefined, or a new reference parallel plane needs created.
Also, you can create a new reference plane in the component (instead of in the assembly) which holds the desired angle, and is then chosen to mate Parallel to other entities.
Furthermore, I strongly avoid Perpendicular, primarily because it cannot flip. Parallel is equally stable and yet more flexible.
So this is something that i stumble by accident today…
You can actually pull the property manager “Out” from the standard tree and put it side by side to the feature tree..
It take up the some display space but i no longer need to have extra click to expand the feature tree to search for the plane or surface that i need…
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Now.. if only i can find a way to pin the property manager so that it is always shown even if empty..
What the…
MAGIC! You’re too dangerous to be left alive!
There are some drawbacks to this. I honestly cannot recall what they were, but they were big enough that I ended up not using it anymore.
If I can remember them, I will post them here.
When the property manager is docked it grows in width all day, not enough that I notice it right away but when it replaces half the width of the view port I wonder when did that happen?
I sure do wish the feature manager (tree) could be docked and never move or collapse automatically, it seems that I need access to it whenever SW decides to pop it out over the viewport and collapse it. Mostly because there are many things that are easier to select in the feature manager than in the graphics area; or maybe I’m just doing it wrong.
In my experience, the main drawback is the fact that no matter where you place it, it’s either covering up something in the graphics window OR it’s too far away. This drawback is greater than the pain of expanding the flyout tree IMHO.
IIRC there’s a macro that automatically expands the feature tree each time. But I cannot find it.
Interestingly, it had never notice any noticable cover up since i start using this… Maybe because i had been positioning my part center or slightly off-to right by habit (i only realize it when i think about it now…)
The main drawback for me will be the height of the window that is inconsistent which annoy me a little bit
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But you will need to run the macro every time to expand it, no? If you find it, please post here. I just got useless Google results… 
I remember to find this PropertyManager split window when I was looking how to set the Flyout FeatureManager to be the main tree (like others CAD), but unfortunately it’s not possible. There’s the C shortcut for the Flyout Tree, but it needs to activated first and is kind of useless.
Tried it out the whole day.
Drawbacks:
On the positive side:
It is SO MUCH MORE comfortable to work with the feature tree on the left side… Currently I am happily accepting the drawbacks for this.
Dint really notice the renaming issue until you mentioned it , it seem to be only specific to drawing view? I have no issue renaming in Part and ASM
FYI, you can actually click on your drawing view → wait for the property manager to pop out → click again and it will allow you to rename (similar to pressing F2)
I also remember using this , and then i stopped for some reason which annoyed me , but i cant remember what it was.
I am annoyed because i cant remember it 
I used it today , and i works well , so i guess i will continue.
Not sure had it been mention before…
But something that i realize i cant live without recently is binding the Hide All Types (Plane, Sketches, axis, etc) to a keyboard shortcut
Now i just need a macro to hide and show all surfaces body…