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Shortcuts for Feature Manager - View Design Tree, Property Manager, Configurations,... tabs quickly?
Posted: Mon May 24, 2021 6:07 am
by JuTu
Hi!
It's me, again
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...
Re: Shortcuts for Feature Manager - View Design Tree, Property Manager, Configurations,... tabs quickly?
Posted: Mon May 24, 2021 7:17 am
by SPerman
You can write a macro and then assign a keyboard shortcut to that macro.
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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.
Re: Shortcuts for Feature Manager - View Design Tree, Property Manager, Configurations,... tabs quickly?
Posted: Mon May 24, 2021 7:30 am
by Glenn Schroeder
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.
Re: Shortcuts for Feature Manager - View Design Tree, Property Manager, Configurations,... tabs quickly?
Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 2:46 am
by JuTu
Glenn Schroeder wrote: ↑Mon May 24, 2021 7:30 am
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.
This. Thank you! I hadn't noticed that there was such an option
Put this in use immediately.
Re: Shortcuts for Feature Manager - View Design Tree, Property Manager, Configurations,... tabs quickly?
Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 10:21 am
by matt
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.