Every now and then I hit something that turns the selection filters on. I NEVER use these intentionally and would like to disable them permanently. Is there a way to do this? Does anyone know what keyboard shortcut I might be hitting to turn these on?
I nutoriously turn them on by hitting E when ever I want to zoom fit instead of hitting simply F I still haven't completely broken the ACrud habbit of using Z-Enter-E-Enter. This may be because periodically I still have to do a bit of work in ACrud. If you hit E again or F5 will bring the filter toolbar forward and you can turn it all off there.
I also find that for me a mistaken filter is just about always "e" for edges. Since I toggle "x" all day long, I don't want to disable the filters. I would say we mostly need to fix the fat fingers. ;-)
One of the nice things about using the F6 key is that the toolbar doesn't need to be showing for this to work. It will toggle the filters on and off regardless of whether the toolbar is showing or not. Here's a list of all the keyboard shortcuts.
This table lists commonly used default keyboard shortcuts:
Additionally, you can customize the keyboard shortcut keys to suit your style of working.
Action Key Combination
Model Views
Rotate the model:
. horizontally or vertically Arrow keys
. horizontally or vertically 90 degrees Shift+Arrow keys
. clockwise or counterclockwise Alt+ left or right Arrow keys
Pan the model Ctrl+Arrow keys
Zoom in Z
Zoom out z
Zoom to Fit f
Previous View Ctrl+Shift+Z
View Orientation
View Orientation menu Spacebar
Front Ctrl+1
Back Ctrl+2
Left Ctrl+3
Right Ctrl+4
Top Ctrl+5
Bottom Ctrl+6
Isometric Ctrl+7
Selection filters
Filter Edges e
Filter Vertices v
Filter Faces x
Toggle Selection Filter toolbar F5
Toggle selection filters (on/off) F6
File menu items
New SolidWorks document Ctrl+N
Open document Ctrl+O
Open From Web Folder Ctrl+W
Make Drawing from Part Ctrl+D
Make Assembly from Part Ctrl+A
Save Ctrl+S
Print Ctrl+P
Additional keyboard shortcuts
Access online help when in a PropertyManager or dialog box F1
Rename an item in the FeatureManager design tree (this
works for most items)
F2
Rebuild the model Ctrl+B
Force rebuild the model and rebuild all of its features Ctrl+Q
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