Once you’ve located Filter Faces and Filter Vertices, click the command(s) and use the Remove Shortcut button to disable it. To make things easier, I recommend typing “filter” into the search box available here to narrow down the available commands. To disable these hotkeys, navigate to Tools > Customize and access the Keyboard tab. These keys are extremely easy to bump unintentionally, but fortunately they’re very easy to disable. By default, Filter Faces is bound to the X key, while Filter Vertices is bound to the V key. How Did This Even Happen?Īt this point you may be thinking, “But I’ve never seen that toolbar in my life!” The truth is, Selection Filters are usually enabled accidentally through their default hotkeys, which are in an uncomfortably close proximity to keys we use very regularly, such as Ctrl, Alt, and Shift. If you have multiple Selection Filters active and do not wish to clear all of them at once, you can alternatively click individual filters to toggle them on/off. If you’d prefer, however, you can also use the second icon in the Selection Filters toolbar to clear any active filters. In case you missed it at the beginning of the article, you can simply press F6 on the keyboard to clear any active Selection Filters without ever opening up the toolbar mentioned above. They will remain active until you turn them back off. You can also enable more than one filter at a time – so if you’d like to restrict selections to edges and vertices, for example, simply turn both Selection Filters on by clicking on the appropriate icon. In this toolbar, you’ll find a filter for nearly every SOLIDWORKS entity to assist you in making precise graphical selections.
If you’d like to browse the available Selection Filters for future reference, turn on the Selection Filter toolbar by clicking View > Toolbars > Selection Filter or by simply pressing F5 on the keyboard. This is actually the intent of these filters, however, which can be exceptionally useful in certain situations (like to allow only edge selections while adding a complex fillet feature, or only solid bodies when running a Combine command, for example). If you’ve seen this icon before, you probably noticed that your selections in the graphics area became restricted, likely preventing you from selecting anything other than faces, or perhaps vertices. This icon indicates that a Selection Filter is currently active.
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You can thank me later! For those who’d like to stick around and figure what this thing is, how it got there and how to prevent it from happening again, read on! What Does This Icon Mean? Using the tolerance slider you can adjust how well the trace conforms to your image.Every SOLIDWORKS user has had it happen – you’re minding your business, modeling away, when suddenly and without warning:įor those of you looking for the quickest tip you’ll ever receive, simply press the F6 key in SOLIDWORKS and then move the cursor to get rid of this icon. Notice in the above the deviation on the C, the K and the Arc are not satisfactory in this image. In this case, we know that the background is a constant White, so we used this colour selection: When you are ready you can then choose begin trace. Using either the selection tools (rectangular, freehand or polygon) you can designate specific areas for the tool to work on, or using the colour, you can select an area based on a specific RGB.
To access the auto trace functionality click the next arrow within the property manager. Once inserted, you can position and scale the image as required: To help make sure the auto trace functionality works well, we have made sure that we have a clear contrast in colours, in this case black and white. Start a new sketch and go to Tools – Sketch Tools – Insert Sketch Picture and browse for your picture. For this example we will use a simple panda image Use the properties controls to scale and position the image on the sketch plane as required. To do this go to Tools – Add-ins and make sure it is ticked under Active Add-ins: From within a sketch, use the sketch picture command (tools>sketch tools>sketch picture) to insert an image into the sketch environment.
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Due to the nature of this tool it works best for images such as logos that will have a clear contrast in colours.Ĭarrying on from the previous blog entry in this series our objective is to emboss the Cadtek logo onto the mannequin.įirst of all make sure you have the Auto Trace add-in Enabled. The Auto Trace add-in allows you to automatically trace a picture based on areas or colours and create vector data.
This time we will take a look at automating this using the Auto Trace add-in. In the previous Score with SOLIDWORKS blog entry we looked at using a sketch picture to manually draw around and create our features from.
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